chinese paints-on-fans

the calligraphy on the fan cover was firstly recorded on the story of wang xizhi wrote calligraphy on some of the lady's fan. in the history, wang xizhi painted mini figures on fan, and "painting cow for huanwen" of his son wang xianzhi. with the rapid development of the painting art, especially all-time improvement of the landscape and flower and bird based on late tang and five dynasty, the literator and painting in song dynasty were more and more closely, and formed the peak period of painting. meanwhile, the emperor was extremely attention to the cover painting.

as a real practicality fan, the large folding fan painted on the second year of xuande era is housed in palace museum. the earliest one is "fishing the boat" during xuande era housed in shanghai museum. at that period, suzhou had flourishing business while the court painting was tend to weakness. zhe faction ran to the end, but wu faction became rising. as a lead of shenzhou, extended by "famous artists of wu faction", wen zhengming, tangyin and qiuying, they had complete technique, wide subject and rich experience in this field between chenhua and jiajing era, which was the very most active and was the flourish period of ming calligraphy art. for example wen zhengming had published his works of "calligraphy and painting on the fan book of wen zhengming".