Chang Son fan village in Hanoi Vietnam

Referring to the traditional craft of making paper fans, people often refer to the Warsaw Ke village called Village Soup Planning, Dan Hoa commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi Vietnam. But there are also specialized in making a village famous paper fan no less, that Chang Son fan village.

Chang Son village which is a traditional village's second most famous former Ha Tay Province, now part of Chang Son commune, Thach That district, Ha Noi. Dan Chang Son's also known as "critical technologies" and acting is just a fan of the famous lines of the village.
Career as a fan of the Son He has hundreds of years. From the 19th century, Chang Son fan made famous at home and abroad. The French have several times brought Chang Son fan remote ocean to Paris exhibition. History also record that fans who do well at the village was ordained Ms. Ho (product function or reason for pride wealthy feudal).
The advantage of making Chang Son fan usually in times of leisure. Before Lunar New Year is everything is available for purchase on leisure facilities when they bring out to do. Career as a fan but not too difficult, strenuous, but requires the fussy, meticulous to the extremely stylish.
To get a nan fan as you, the artist must put so much effort to choose the staring each bamboo tube, each fiber to cloud edges and sheaves of paper to each propeller. Tre must be flexible, old aged three years, no new outbound termites are durable and beautiful. Bamboo tubes cut, scrape blue crystal, splitting knife cut out, paint attached to two bamboo. After that, the bamboo was tight a few months, when dry paint into the staring the breathtaking new. Fibers have iridescent clouds, smooth, not long to knit when connecting multiple sections together.
Paper is a paper fan, the paper messages get buy Dong Ho (Bac Ninh) to bring about. When staring into the paper to be ingenious, meticulous, so that the paper is not creased, folds flat, well, handy for the painting.
When drawing, the artist's most difficult is the base standard folds between the staring. Must be carefully calculated so that upon completion, folding fan does not affect competition, the folds are in the right space, not cut or cut the material. If cases are required to cut, then the property of the drawing is created that links the viewer does not know which material is cut without hands touching the fan. When the fan stages to complete, the artist will paint the ball out there a fan to keep bright, durable.
Not only has high artistic value that each fan Son He also discovered a significant history of long-term philosophy. Fans may be material to the hands of her charming young woman, the virtue of his special occasions, or original art paintings on the wall for decoration.
Whether wall-mounted or hand-held fan is still well up from a beautiful soft, seductive textures from the images between the fan. The fans even more impressive by the material color iridescent silk royalty, the still shimmering blend with nature motifs are carved above. Every picture on the fan is a symbol of the famous scenic spots of the country and even the stories of ancient history of the area are national heroes ... It can be said Chang Son fan is the convergence of all elite of the sky and people of Vietnam.
He now has another old Son so much. The person making the fan, the fan-makers. Chang Son fan these were exported to the ocean both Japan and South Korea with designs, types and shapes. Not only do these paper fans, fans that this nan Chang Son who also produced the fan, silk fan sizes, individual fans to avoid meters in size. Mostly sell silk fan art troupes, festivals, tourist companies, the international tourists.
Higher fan paintings used to decorate the wall offers a space characterized ancient people retire. The name of the artist as Duong Van Mo, Nguyen Duc Lan, Lan Tuyet Nguyen, Duong Van Doan ... no one is not known. Especially artisans Duong Van Mo, who has made a fan record in Vietnam, 9 meters long, 4.5 m high, painting rural market in the form Hanoi Hang Trong paintings on display at the Flower Festival City New Year and traditional village Festival held in Hue in June / 2009.
Career as a fan not only provides income for people, but also play an important role in preserving and developing the tradition of an ancient village and contribute to promoting Vietnamese culture with friends in the country.
The country has changed its flesh, human life is increasingly improving, though not without modern means of cooling as air conditioners, electric fans, rock fans, but fans still have a traditional meaning extremely important. It is both assert the vitality of a traditional village, it has brought a subculture characterized rural past. Images of old sat waving paper fans or fan nan shade under the trees or the landscape reminds gable house reminiscent of a peaceful village, quiet, cool to see our family by having a fan used.