Editing Chinese culture (section)

=== Chinese hand fan ===
[[File:Non electric fan aka solfjader.jpg|thumb|A commercially produced scented wood folding fan, featuring a drawing of the [[Great Wall of China]].]]
The oldest existing Chinese fans are a pair of woven [[bamboo]], wood or paper side-mounted fans from the 2nd century BCE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aboutdecorativestyle.com/articles/history_fans.htm|title=articles – brief history of fans|work=aboutdecorativestyle.com|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=22 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622012142/http://www.aboutdecorativestyle.com/articles/history_fans.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Chinese character]] for "fan" (扇) is etymologically derived from a picture of feathers under a roof. A particular status and gender would be associated with a specific type of fan. During the [[Song dynasty]], famous artists were often commissioned to paint fans.  The Chinese dancing fan was developed in the 7th century. The Chinese form of the hand fan was a row of feathers mounted in the end of a handle. In the later centuries, Chinese poems and four-word idioms were used to decorate the fans by using Chinese calligraphy pens.  In ancient China, fans came in various shapes and forms (such as in a leaf, oval or a half-moon shape), and were made in different materials such as silk, bamboo, feathers, etc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hand-fan.org/chinese_hand_fans.html|title=Chinese Hand Fans|work=hand-fan.org|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202022038/http://www.hand-fan.org/chinese_hand_fans.html|url-status=live}}</ref>