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The
fan in the universal story of "calligraphy fan of Wang Xizhi"
is hexagonal. "Wang Xizhi's biography of Jingshu" recorded,
"When Wang Xizhi was traveling around the mountain, he happened
to an old women selling the bamboo hexagonal fan, he wrote
five characters on the fans immediately. The old woman has
a little angry with this, but Wang xizhi said that she could
get one hundred funds after selling the fans. As a result,
people rushed to purchase the fan. Actually, there were kinds
of shape to the fan in Jin dynasty. Also, it has not only
bamboo fan, but also the fan in Chinese palm, which was extremely
common at that period. "a person of Jin dynasty has fifty-hundred
palm fan, a famous person uses one of them, the fans immediately
turn over several times." |
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1- 9: Hanxi holding
the banquet at night, author GU Hongzhong (Five Dynasties)
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