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Hearing Chen Hee's teasing words, Lin Xi responded with a light laugh. He then brought the folded fan of the Brocade Box in front of everyone's eyes, pushed it in front of Chen Hee and opened it. Only then did he return to his seat and quietly wait for the results.

Zhang Senxu saw the fan among the Brocade Box s and couldn't help but frown, because the fan's bone was extremely damaged, and was almost decaying. However, when he saw that the fan was still completely preserved, he revealed a surprised expression, and couldn't figure out how exactly this fan was kept.

As for Chen Hee, he had already put on the white gloves a long time ago. Just as he was about to take out the fan, Qin Yu had also came over and revealed a strange expression.

Although Qin Yu was not very familiar with the identification of folding fans, he was still interested in them. Furthermore, this folding fan looked like an old object, but no matter how he looked at it, he could not see its depth.

Finally, he couldn't resist the urge to open the fan and take a good look at the situation before Chen Hee could.

Chen Hee seemed to have seen through Qin Yu's thoughts, his large hands slapped over, and berated: "Little brat Qin, do you want to completely ruin this fan, you don't have any rules."

Qin Yu's expression immediately changed. He had just remembered the rules of this item, they could not directly take it with their hands, because everyone's hands would exude sweat and would cause significant damage to their fan bones and surfaces. Furthermore, he could be considered an old player, and had actually forgotten about this.

However, since Chen Hee was his elder, he didn't dare show any dissatisfaction. He could only withdraw his hand, and then, very consciously, he took a pair of gloves from Black Cloaked Bodyguard, and apologized with a chuckle: "Elder Chen, please don't take offense to this, it's my fault. If this old thing were to be returned to me, Lin Xi would definitely cry to death."

Lin Xi could not help but snicker. However, he was curious as to why Qin Yu was like a child in front of Chen Hee, as if he was still afraid of him. After all, Qin Yu was neither humble nor arrogant in front of him.

Chen Hee and the others truly deserved to be called the number one figure in the Antique World. Their professional standards and attainments were far beyond what ordinary people could match, whether it was when appraising Tang San Cai for taking off her gloves, or when appraising the Buddha statue and the folded fan and gloves, it was clear to see.

However, when Lin Xi thought about how he looked at this fan, he couldn't help but break out in cold sweat. Luckily he didn't manage to shake it off completely, or else he would really cry …

Qin Yu carefully took the fan out of the Brocade Box s, and after holding it open, it revealed the true face of the fan that was folded. The fan was wide, and on it was a painting of a young lady, with a width of 20 cm and a width of 30 cm.

At the lower right corner of the fan was the gourd-shaped signature of Chou Ying — Ten Continents.

It could be said that the entire fan surface was very simple and unadorned, revealing its dignified and imposing aura.

Speaking of which, he had no choice but to talk about the origins of fans and folding fans.

The history of fan in China can be said to be very long, as early as the Yin and Shang dynasties there was the so-called Zhai fan, the Zhou Dynasty called feather fan. Ever since the Han Dynasty, the foppish fan that used bamboo as a frame and silk as a fan started flourishing in the palace, becoming a palace fan.

It was also in the Tang Dynasty period that folding fans started to be popular because of the influence of Japanese culture, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when folding fans developed to the peak, they used precious materials and produced exquisite craftsmanship. The fan faces were also divided into fine sprinkles of gold, snow gold, gingerbread, hairpins, old bauxite, and clay gold noodles.

Painting on the fan also had a long history, however, after the appearance of the fan, this trend began to flourish, especially since the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the number of famous calligraphy and paintings on the fan increased day by day, for example, Tang Bohu of Ming Dynasty, Chou Ying, Shi Tao of Qing Dynasty, Wu Changshuo, as well as the modern Xu Beihong, Qi Baishi, and so on, all had left many amazing works on the fan.

As an elegant art collection, the fan has a long history. The fan was originally just a life tool intended by people, but along with the development of history, it was gradually closely related to the art. Besides being exquisite in craftsmanship, beautiful in shape and many kinds of styles, it was also loved by people because it was often used as a carrier of painting and painting. It gradually formed a special category in the art of painting.

As for folding fans, they are also known as "fan sprinkling", "paper fan", "umbrella fan", "pinching fan", "folding fan", "folding fan", "head gathering fan", "bone-gathering fan", "sub-fan", "whirlwind fan". They are folding fans made of bamboo or ivory, paper or silk.

The folding fans were made of a variety of materials, such as ivory, tortoiseshell, sandalwood, incense, zongzhu, and various kinds of wood. The craftsmanship has the pearl, the engraver, the lacquer sprinkles gold, the backlight lacquer.

There were also the hollow edges, which contained thirty-two tiny teeth; some were hollow through the body to fill up the fragrant air; and there were even more open knobs with tiny dice hidden in them. These folding fan bones all had various patterns engraved on them, and their preparation was extremely ingenious and coincidental.

There were also some bone scallops imitating the shape of a swallowtail. Some of the bone scallops were hidden inside the scallop, and there were no marks on the surface of the bone. As for the fan, there were white paper and alum, colorful, scented, hammered gold and sprinkled gold.

Actually, the folding fan used by modern people was also called the swatting fan. Because the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle, liked this type of fan to be easy to use, and was spread out from the palace, it quickly spread throughout the entire country and was widely used. In addition, when folding fans were popular, they would flourish for a long time. In Qing Dynasty, folding fans could be seen everywhere, and it was simply like reaching the peak of perfection.

In addition, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many famous men in Jiangnan, the area where the folding fan was made, whose talents and talents had little to do with the folding fan, and the cultural atmosphere they created in the southern part of the country, which was as smooth as water, was tender and misty; through the folding fan as a medium, it was spread throughout the imperial palace, the palaces, the chambers, the folk, and the overseas. And the folding fan was also worth a hundred times more because of these beautiful paintings.

However, it is worth explaining that most of the folding fans in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen grades, and their sizes ranged from one foot to one foot, while the eighteen eight-inch fans only became popular after the liberation of China, so few people used them in the old era.