In the Song Dynasty, the art of painting flourished, especially landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting, which were unprecedentedly improved on the basis of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. The relationship between literati and painting is getting closer and closer, forming the climax of literati painting creation. Coupled with the emperor's emphasis on fan art, calligraphy and painting fan developed rapidly and reached its peak. In the Song Dynasty, the court painter painted a fan, and the book said: "When Huizong had a fan, in politics, there were people imitating the palaces of the Sixth Palace, and even hundreds of them. There are still many fan paintings, and the shape of the fan has a banana-shaped fan. " The very popular painting fan in Song Dynasty created a large number of immortal works, which have been passed down to this day for people to appreciate the noble painting art in Song Dynasty. As small as flowers and birds, the weeds, insects, birds and fish in the painting have been carefully handled and beautifully written.
Fan art is loved by famous painters and painters of all ages, and many famous painters' fan works are all over the world. The fan, which integrates calligraphy and painting, began in the Ming Dynasty, because of the appearance of folding fan. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the highly developed fan-making technology in Jiangnan, many fan paintings and fan books with Jiangnan characteristics were left behind. Jiangnan region has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and has formed many artistic categories and schools, among which fan and couplet are the most distinctive. Nowadays, people can enjoy not only the fan paintings of Dong Qichang, Wu Changshuo and Feng Zikai, but also the works of Zeng Guofan, Zuo, Li Hongzhang and Huang Yanpei, which shows that the fan painting art has spread widely in China and is loved by different people.