Photographer Miss Guo Guo

In the picture above, Yang Mi is holding a folding fan. Because there is no close-up, the fan is not particularly clear, but it can be roughly inferred that it should be a mahogany bamboo core folding fan. As the name implies, the mahogany bamboo core is a big bone with mahogany as a fan and bamboo as a small bone. This form of material mixing appears in the fan row, initially from the practical point of view, because although the wooden fan has the advantage of being more stable and heavy than the bamboo fan, the bones of the wooden fan have the disadvantage of being easily broken, especially the small bones. So the predecessors made this kind of "mix and match" fan, and this one in the picture is a clever mahogany bamboo core folding fan.

The fan in this picture is an important prop in TV series-Jade Qing Kunlun Fan. The name is really immortal, and I have to admire the creative ability of the screenwriter. However, speaking of the overall shape of this fan, the crew has made great efforts. The fan bone should be improved on the basis of what we call a one-foot smooth plate, made of rosewood, and the fan head is divided into cow bones. However, the big face of this fan was improved by the crew designer. The original 3.3 rows were processed into a shape similar to Jiudan (a kind of onion), and then matched with jade fan pendants and rice paper fans. Finally, the so-called jade is inlaid on the outside of the big bone (but in terms of texture, it should be plastic, and you know the funding problem).

Speaking of fans of film and television dramas, another one I have to mention is The Journey to the West, which was released during the Spring Festival. I believe many friends went to see it. The spider essence (played by Claudia) in the film certainly makes many people feel very amazing. In fact, it is not only the characters themselves that are amazing, but also the props and round fans they are holding are really beautiful.

Let's start with this one Claudia has. This kind of round fan is even a special-shaped round fan with a semi-crescent shape. The edge should be covered with a circle of concave metal wire, and then covered with black brocade. The whole fan looks more like a yarn than silk. The design sense of this fan is all embodied in the protector and boring head. The protector takes the shape similar to bergamot as the design element to protect the sector. The overall shape and color matching of this round fan are very classical, which is very suitable for the strange feeling of the role. It's really good.

The overall style of these two special-shaped round fans is the same as that of the last one, but the shape of the sector has changed from a half-moon shape to a gouyu shape, which is full of China classical cultural temperament and has also made great efforts.

Compared with the above two strange fans, this one looks fresh and normal. It is a round fan made of mahogany and bamboo with long handle. As for the fan, because the picture is not clear, it can only be roughly inferred that it is either an ordinary white embroidery or a silk fan. Of course, there is also the worst possibility, which is ink painting. Because you can't see the real thing, you can only list several possibilities.

Speaking of this fan, it doesn't necessarily make sense to say that it is mahogany, because it is difficult for wood itself to bend into such a shape. If it is really wood, this fan is technically difficult to realize. Generally speaking, fans with this shape are wrapped in metal wire concave rings, supplemented by brocade, but if the edge of this fan is metal wire, it will be too clumsy, so what material can only be judged by looking at the real thing.

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