How to make the Dragon Boat Festival fan?
To make a Dragon Boat Festival fan, you need to prepare materials such as paper, bamboo or wooden sticks. Use bamboo poles or wooden sticks to make fan bones, cut them according to the required size and shape, and then fix the position of fan bones with iron wires to ensure the balance of fan bones. In order to make a beautiful fan, choose paper with bright colors and tough texture, such as rice paper, cardboard or silk.
Cut the selected paper into a shape consistent with the length of the fan bone, and then draw a pattern on the paper, which can be a traditional zongye or dragon boat or a modern pattern. After painting, decorate and paint according to the design requirements to increase the aesthetics and durability of the fan.
Fix the paper on the fan bone with glue or fiber tape to ensure that the paper is firm and not easy to fall off. Finally, the decoration of the fan is perfect. You can add tassels, fan handles and other elements to make a beautiful Dragon Boat Festival fan. Fan is one of the traditional gifts of Dragon Boat Festival, which has the significance of exorcising evil spirits, eliminating epidemic diseases, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.
Paper fan is a kind of folk art in China, which has a history of more than two thousand years and is an important part of traditional culture in China. Traditional Dragon Boat Festival fans mostly use bamboo or wooden sticks as fan ribs and rice paper or silk as paper surface, which is both practical and decorative.
The craftsmanship of making fans is very rich, which requires not only exquisite painting skills, but also the texture of paper and the structural characteristics of fan bones. Only after repeated deliberation and adjustment can we create a perfect work.
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Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.
On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.