The opening scene of the movie “Green Snake”, the white snake sisters came to the world for the first time. looks like.
The sisters tied their hair up to the temples and hooked them into the shape of small snakes entrenched in the wind. The two wore chiffon skirts that were light and elegant, one was pink and the other was blue and purple, and both held a plain fan.
They practiced using a fan to cover their desires, and their demonic aura was reduced, and they became docile women with low eyebrows and obedient heads in the world.
Different from the literati who held a folding fan and talked about the past and the present, women in ancient times preferred to hold a round fan in their hand with a half-covered plain face. A round fan has hidden the subtle beauty of oriental women in the fan for thousands of years.
01/round fan , where did it come from?
The birth of the fan probably occurred during a scorching summer in ancient times. The ancients hunted plant leaves or bird feathers at will, and processed them simply to block the sun and guide the wind. Its origin is logical to some bland.
Let’s talk about the text first. “The door is also. From the household, from the sound.”
It is very image, the original fan, not Symmetric, for example, Tan Fan will definitely take out the Mawangdui fan.
In addition, the fan has a “feather” in it, because it was originally made of feathers. In ancient times, people would pluck pheasant tails, which are colorful pheasant feathers, and make long-handled fans.
The “barrier fan” in Yan Liben’s “Walking Road”
But it is not used by the general public To enjoy the cool, but the emperor’s exclusive guard of honor ornaments. “It is held high by the bearer to block the dust and cover the sun for the emperor.”
It has a high appearance rate. In TV dramas, ancient paintings, and the guards of honor where the emperor and high officials travel, there are shadows of large barrier fans to show its majesty. Behind the most successful emperors, there are two women who silently lift a barrier fan.
Fans for enjoying the cool air began to appear one after another after the Western Han Dynasty, and gradually flew from the front of the Vermillion Bird Hall to the hands of ordinary people, becoming a fun companion for enjoying the cool breeze. Fans developed to the Tang Dynasty and were necessary for almost everyone. People buy new fans every time during the Dragon Boat Festival, during which there is a very lively fan market.
Before the Song Dynasty, all non-folding fans were round fans, which were for both men and women.
Around the Song Dynasty, the portable folding fan came from Japan, and men turned to the convenient folding fan. The group fan was gradually tied to women and became the standard configuration of ancient elegant women.
02/round fan Relationship with beauty?
Among the poems about fans, the most classic ones are “fans, fans, beautiful people’s sickness to cover their faces”. The fan used by beauties to cover their faces does have a strong femininity.
It’s beautiful. The ancestors who adhering to the modeling design philosophy of “taking things near and taking things far away” actively observe the surrounding things, constantly abstract the beautiful things of nature, and integrate them into the fan.
From simple square and round shapes to hexagons, sunflowers, plantains, begonias, and plum blossoms, more and more beautiful styles have begun to appear on the fan.
Zhou Fang’s “Ladies Waving Fans”, Zhang Xuan’s “Pictures”
Tuan Fan Small. As evidenced by the pictures, it is usually the maids who hold the big fans, while the fans of the nobles and ladies of the Tang Dynasty are mostly small and unique. “Silver candles are cold in the autumn light, and the small fan of Qing Luo flutters the firefly.” The fans of the Tang Dynasty used “Qing Luo”, a very thin silk fabric, and the small fan was very light and light in the hand.
The diameter of the fan in the Song Dynasty was between 23 and 25 cm, and the length of the fan was between 35 and 40 cm. The fans held by the women in Song’s paintings are even more small and cute.
“The Painting of the Ladies of the Cool” at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
In particular, the dresses of women in the Song Dynasty were mostly slender and smooth. It is to bring out the slightest wind. The beauty of fragrant sweat, coupled with the semi-transparent leno clothes that are often worn in summer, with a low neckline, makes people daydream.
The fan has changed from a cool item to a decoration in the hands of a woman, from a utensil to a prop. cover up, cover up, but added more feminine charm.
03/Still holding a pipa half-covered?
In ancient times, there was a custom of “covering the fan” and “quenching the fan” when getting married. It became popular from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. . The function of the group fan is equivalent to the current red hijab.
During the Tang Dynasty, the bride had to use a fan to cover her face on the day she got married. Under the cover of the fan, the woman walked towards her husband’s house step by step, towards the unmasked love and the unknown fate of her life.
In modern times, there are chauffeurs. When his friend Dong Xiucai got married, he was invited to be the best man. If you can’t make a poem, what should you do? The best man’s task is to come forward. He therefore wrote quite a few poems.
“On behalf of Dong Xiucai but fan”
Don’t let the painting fan out to hide the stagnant talent in Chunshan.
If the Taoist circles are like the bright moon, there must be sweet-scented osmanthus in them.
Imagine such a scene, the bride hiding behind the fan, waiting, looking forward, and imagining. In the poem about the fan, the bride moved the fan a little bit, and slowly revealed the hibiscus face with affectionate eyebrows, which really felt very beautiful.
A tulle fan is also an indispensable prop for singers to perform song and dance performances. Fan dance clothes, always appear in pairs in ancient records.
“Jiangqing song at the bottom of the fan, dancing in the wilderness”, Du Fu described such a scene, on the rippling lake, the candlelight swaying in the light song and painting boat, the singers performed in the wilderness of heaven and earth .
Before the performance, they had learned to cover their faces with a fan to add to the mystery. “Dancing clothes cloud swaying shadow, singing fan moon opens.” The dancing skirt of the song girl swayed with the cloud shadow, and a silk fan covered the geisha’s face, but there was a faint singing voice coming from behind the fan.
In the era of Song Ci, when there was a happy gathering and feasting, every round of drinking paid attention to “persuading the drink” by singing and dancing, so the gegi would hold a wine glass in one hand and a fan in the other, singing and persuading the drinker. The tone: “Qing Luo’s fans hide their shyness, and the wine is full of glass and flowers.”
The so-called charm is between this hazy and subtle expression.
Manghu Li “Picture of Lady Seated with Fan”, holding in his hand A translucent fan embroidered with bamboo leaves; Huangshan Shou, “Picture of Lady Banji Wan Fan”, the fan has dark flowers.
Ancient women were not allowed to show their faces in public, and would wear a fan to cover their faces when they went out. This habit has been followed up to the Song Dynasty, such as Song Lu Wei Lao’s “Douye Yellow”: “Qingluo round fan hides shame, and wine is full of glass flowers.”
The beauty of the round fan’s covering function is It’s not meant to be hidden from the wind, so that no one can see it.
Blue “Nasha” “Flower and Butterfly Picture” is a bone-dyed and carved Kuilong pattern handle fan; green “Nasha” “Flower and Butterfly Picture” has a green bamboo handle.
This is related to the material used for the fan surface in ancient times. It is mainly made of silk, and the translucent silk silk thinly woven from mulberry silk is the commonly used material for the fan surface.
The charm of the fan that seems to be concealed but not concealed, and that which is revealing is not revealing, has been shown to the greatest extent through the use of silk.
Wen Tingqi wrote such a scene in “Jiangnan Song”: “The thin fan reveals red lead.” Although the thin Luo fan hides his face, the red makeup on his face is faintly revealed, easily The place arouses people’s infinite reverie about the appearance behind the fan.
When a woman laughs, a fan gently covers her red lips to achieve the subtlety of “smile without showing your teeth”; when a woman is shy, the fan lightly covers her pink face, her eyes are slightly lowered, and her head is lowered slightly , showing infinite restraint and tenderness.
As Kant said in “On the Sense of Beauty and the Sublime”: “Their women had a dignified and decent style of themselves very early on, and knew how to give themselves a good demeanor. And self-confidence.”
The self-restraint of oriental women is hidden in a fan.
