Wang Tingding of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "New Records of Cane Fans": "Wheat fan: wheat straw is woven into a flat belt, more than an inch wide, and circled into a regular shape, as big as a basin. It is clamped on both sides of bamboo strips as a handle, and a small circle of five-color satin is pasted in the center, embroidered with landscapes and figures, very fine, golden and smooth in wheat color, light and convenient, and many people in Liangzhe use it for home." The wheat fan he mentioned is the wheat straw fan, also known as wheat straw fan or wheat straw fan. This kind of wheat straw fan is produced in Shaoxing, Zhuji, Ningbo, Jinhua and other places in Zhejiang. There was such a custom in the rural areas of Shangyu: if a girl and a boy fell in love, when summer came, the boy would receive a delicate and beautiful wheat straw fan, which was the girl's sincere expression of love to her sweetheart. After the girl got married, on the first Dragon Boat Festival, her parents would visit her daughter with gifts. The gifts must include wheat straw fans, which were distributed to uncles, mothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, neighbors and relatives to express respect and friendship. The Yu'nan Mountain area is rich in barley, bamboo and silk, which provide an inexhaustible supply of raw materials for the production of straw fans. The seemingly simple straw fan has a very complicated production process. The straw used to weave the fan should be the white, fine and uniform ear neck of the two-diamond barley straw that has not been rained on, and the ear neck should be the part wrapped with sword leaves. In order to prevent yellowing over time, people often soak it in rice water for a day and a night, and then boil it and dry it. After the seven straws are tied into a bunch, the women will weave the first straw on the left and right sides up and down in sequence to press the inner straw into a white silk, and sew it together with white thread, which will become the mother of the straw fan. For the sake of beauty, a circle of "dog tooth" lace woven from four straws dyed red and green must be sewn on the outer edge of the fan. The sewing and embroidery of the round sticker is the "finishing touch". The round sticker is composed of pattern paper cutting, embroidery, and plate-tying techniques. Patterned paper-cutting, including flowers, birds, people, and historical stories, can all be included in the painting. Embroidery, although it is a copycat, requires patience. The most skillful and delicate work is the plate-making. A small plate can be made of silk thread and split thin straw slices to create endless exquisite patterns. The making of fan handles is slightly simpler. Generally, high-quality bamboo with long nodes and fine texture is selected for carving, and auspicious words and patterns are engraved on it. The styles are varied and can be said to be leading-. Such an ordinary straw fan has been passed down for at least more than 2,000 years. However, with the impact of modern lifestyles, changes in market economic needs, and adjustments in planting structures, the straw fan, which has been passed down for thousands of years as a tool for cooling off and driving away mosquitoes and flies, has lost certain folk life functions and material sources. However, as a folk handicraft, especially as a tourist handicraft and export traditional handicraft, it still has a good market development prospect and economic value, and should continue to be passed on and protected. In November 2008, it was included in the second batch of Shaoxing City's intangible cultural heritage list. Information source: Shaoxing City Cultural Center Information source: Shaoxing City Cultural Center