The traditional Chinese round fan has always been an elegant object played by literati and officials. The production process of the traditional round fan is very complicated, with more than 20 processes, including: baking frame, stretching the fan surface, wrapping, beating paste, painting, gilding, etc. It takes a lot of effort to make a high-quality round fan. Today we will talk about the production process of the round fan.
The first type, hand-made thread-woven round fan:
1. It uses a piece of bamboo and cuts it into about forty filaments by hand.
2. Hand-knit the fan bones.
3. Paste paper on the fan ribs and frame them. The production process is almost entirely manual, with exquisite craftsmanship and great difficulty.
The second type is to drill holes and insert wire into the round fan:
1. First use a machine to process the moso bamboo slices into small thin discs.2. Use a machine to drill holes evenly on the side of the small thin disc.
3. Insert thin bamboo wire of about one millimeter into the hole to make a fan leaf.
4. Draw pictures on the fan pages and frame them. On the basis of inheriting traditional styles, there are innovations and unique styles. The fabrics for the two types of round fans can be paper, cloth, or silk. The content of the picture can include ancient and modern famous paintings, modern landscape paintings, etc. The fan is 50cm long, 32.3cm wide at the top and 29.1cm at the bottom, mostly with green gauze as the base. Tuanfan is generally round, and there are many other shapes, such as hexagonal, octagonal, melon-shaped, banana-leaf-shaped, sycamore-leaf-shaped, etc. Among them, crabapple-shaped, Changho-shaped, and plum blossom-shaped are besides round. More common.
Important processes:
1. Baking frame for making round fans
The baking frame is the basis for making uchiwa fans, and it is also the most difficult part. If you want the frame to be elastic, you need to use a whole bamboo strip to bake it, and bake it at an indirect temperature of about 200 degrees for the strongest toughness. The type of bamboo is also particular. When grilling, the outside of the bamboo strips is stretched and the inside is squeezed. If the fiber length is not long enough, it will break easily. Generally speaking, the closer the curved surface is to a circle, the better it is to bake. Polygons are relatively difficult to bake. bake.
