中国扇文化源远流长。关于扇子的传说,可从最早的伏羲女娲扇障面到尧王舜帝始造扇,再到扇业始祖齐纨以及后来的扇子与八仙的故事,无不体现出扇子在中国发展的悠久历史。中国扇子在宋代前是以平扇为主流,包括纨扇、羽扇、蔑竹扇等。宋代以后折扇开始流行,到明清时期折扇已经发展成为扇子的主流。在经济、文化、地理环境等多种因素的共同作用下,苏州折扇在 Chinese fan culture goes back to ancient times. On the fan’s legend, from the earliest Fu Xi Nu Wa fan to the face of Yao Wang Shun Emperor began to create fan, and fan ancestor Qi Qiu and later fans and the story of the Eight Immortals, all reflect the fan history of the development of China . Chinese fans before the Song Dynasty is the flat fan as the mainstream, including the fan, lupine, contempt bamboo fan. After the Song Dynasty folding fan began to prevail, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties folding fan has become the mainstream of the fan. In the economic, cultural, geographical environment and other factors under the joint action, folding fan in Suzhou