Editing Hand fan (section)

==== Vietnam ====
The hand fan ({{lang|vi|Quạt tay}}) is an integral part of [[Vietnamese culture]]. According to the Vân Đài Loại Ngữ, a book written by Lê Quý Ðôn, in the old times [[Vietnamese people]] used hand fans made from bird feather and {{lang|vi|quạt bồ quỳ}}, a type of fan made from leaves of the taraw palm tree. The folding fans only started appearing in Vietnam in the 10th century, known as {{lang|vi|quạt tập diệp}} in Vietnamese. Christian missionary Christoforo Borri recorded that in 1621, both Vietnamese men and women frequently held hand fans as part of their daily garment.

Many villages in Vietnam have long-dating traditions of making exquisite hand fans such as Canh Hoạch village and Đào Xá village, with fan-making dating back to the early 19th century.

Simple handheld fans, such as {{lang|vi|quạt mo}} and the {{lang|vi|quạt nan}} are commonly found in the Vietnamese countrysides and popularly used among farmers and working people. The {{lang|vi|Quạt mo}} has the simplest design, cut directly from the dried Areca leaf stems, then pressed to flatten. It appears in "Thằng Bờm", a well-known Vietnamese {{lang|vi|ca dao}} (a type of Vietnamese folk song). The {{lang|vi|quạt nan}} also has a simple design, made by sewing a half-moon shaped Maclurochloa leaf onto a straight bamboo stick.

{{Gallery
|File:Woven palm leaf fan.jpg|Vietnamese woven palm leaf fan
|File:世界人物圖卷 越南人.jpg|Tonkin woman holding a fan
||Hand fan used in a Chèo performance|title=Vietnamese hand fans|align=center}}