Introduction to fan calligraphy

The fan is an instrument used by the ancients to paint the wind and enjoy the cool. The fan is used to write and paint, and it is also one of the unique forms of painting in ancient China. It is an elegant thing for China literati to exchange fans and cooperate in calligraphy and painting. Early painters and painters mainly used round silk "ten thousand fans" After the popularity of folding fans in the Ming Dynasty, calligraphy and painting on paper folding fans became another choice. Fan calligraphy, generally speaking, is the calligraphy written on the fan. Fan calligraphy and fan painting are both works of art on the fan.