Jinling folding fan on blue and white porcelain painting

Two Kangxi blue and white porcelain plates in the Forbidden City (microblogging) Museum contain both ladies and folding fans in the two porcelain plates. Figure 1 is a fan-back and Figure 2 is an aristocratic fan. In appreciation of these two dishes, everyone discussed where the two folding fans were produced. Some people say that they are fans in Hangzhou. Some people say that they are fans in Suzhou. The author insists that it comes from Nanjing, that is, “Jinling folding fan”.

As early as the Song Dynasty in Nanjing, the fan industry was famous. Nanjing local literature records: "My township is famous for origami fan bones." In the early Ming Dynasty, Ming Chengzu and Zhu Xi, after ascending to the throne in Nanjing, very much appreciated the many folk crafts in the south of the Yangtze River. His elegant folding fan stretches freely, dexterous and beautiful, easy to carry, so under the command of the in-house craftsman to manufacture: "Life style like so far", but also to absorb foreign production methods, and promote domestic fan development. From then on, the bamboo folding fan “passed from the inside and spread all over the world” has been widely circulated to the world. Whether it is the court or the people, the use of folding fans has formed custom and has been affecting the Qing Dynasty for six hundred years. Known as "Jinling folding fan name world." The southern part of the Qinhuai River in Nanjing still retains the old name of “fan bone camp”.

The function of the Jinling folding fan far exceeds the fan cool summer, open it, you can cover up, dance, pass on feelings, and can be used as a ruler, props. Fans can draw questions, so the Jinling folding fan is an excellent carrier for painting. If the "human flesh search" is carried out in Fig. 2, the person in the painting should be the Ming Dynasty celebrity Ma Xianglan. Ma Xianglan is the first of Qinhuai's eight-faced geisha. He painted the orchids in a perfect and artistic manner. You see that the orchid in the painting has not been completed yet. She is writing a meditation. There is a lotus in the vase of the desk, which indicates the elegance of the owner's sludge.

The Jinling folding fan was also used by Zeng Guofan to help fight a lawsuit. During the Qing Tongzhi years, in Zeng Guofan’s hometown of Hengzhou, Hunan, a farmer had a dispute with the people during the Qing Ming grave sweep. The other party colluded with the government and deceived the people. The old farmer could not swallow his breath and wanted to hang himself. One of the fellow villagers awoke him: “Did your son Zeng Guofan not be the governor of the two rivers in Nanjing? Who in the world does not know, you just ask him to write two fingers wide slivers to the Hengzhou government, with this 'Shangfang sword' I am afraid The Empress Dowager Cixi also had to weigh and weigh!” So, the old farmer sought to find the Nanjing Governor’s Office of the two rivers. Zeng Guofan felt very embarrassed: he once said that he did not interfere with local affairs, but he could not break the case, but he could not see the honest man being bullied. Leave it alone. In a dilemma, it was a coincidence that those days coincided with Zeng Guofan’s promotion and the Governor’s Office and local officials came to congratulate him. Zeng Guofan hosted a banquet for the officials and honored him as his seat. When toasting, it was a good time to introduce to everyone the cognac who was diligent and loyal to his life. Civil and military officials left to salute the elderly. Zeng Guofan took out a Jinling folding fan wrapped in red silk and said that it was a gift for the elderly and invited everyone to make inscriptions on the fan. The civil and military officials signed the inscription on the fan one by one, not counting half an hour. The fan was full of questions on both sides. Before he left, the old man suddenly thought of a two-fingered sliver. When “Shang Fang Bao Jian”, Mrs. Zeng whispered to the Cognac: “This folding fan is worth more than the one you want, and you can get it back, regardless of whether you are fighting a lawsuit or doing anything else. Everything can be made good! The words the officer reads will be understood."

After returning home, the cognac hand-held Jinling Folding Fan swung straight into the lobby of the prefecture of Hengzhou. The Qiang prefecture saw him holding the folding fan as a contempt for the court and ordered him to be forty boards. The old man shouted: "The fan is my son to send me!" The yam picked up the folding fan and handed it to the prefecture. The prefectural exhibition fan saw it and was scared and sweaty. It was all official politicians in the day and quickly shouted: "Retreat! !”

The prefect had used his sedan chair to carry the old man back to his home. He also gave the old man a courtesy and gave a special feast for the elderly. Of course, this lawsuit is not just a matter of winning or losing.

Jinling folding fan is more famous.