Ancient Chinese literati often used
folding fans in the summer. The fans were made of paper ,which made them easy to hold
after being folded up. Fans feature all dinds of
drawings and calligraphy. For this reason, folding fans are often considered as words of art which enhance the attractveness of the people using them .Some fans feature erotic pictures.Most are not explicit,but because of the way they are opened and folded, it was possible to conceal erotic drawings inside ordinary ones .Even when fully opened, it could be difficult to see any sexual implications in the pictures. But when properly folded, the concealed picture would energe.This makes fan drawings all the more intriguing .From this drawings, people can appreciate the genius of
ancient China, and understsand how the explicit and the implicit relate to each other in erotic Chinese art. When the fan is flly opened ,we can see two men ,a woman ,a teenager and a baby.But when folding up the part of baby, we find a picture of a man holding a woman