QUESTION:
No one knows exactly how fans in China were invented. The invention or rather the discovery of the fanning function could have been as accidental as follows: a primitive man irritated with lots of flies and mosquitoes, picks up a big leaf off a plant next to him to drive the pests away. To his delight, his effort resulted in cooling air movements.

Legend has it that folded fans were introduced to China from which two countries:

A. Japan and Korea;
B. Korea and Malaysia;
C. Japan and Russia;
D. Australia and The Bahamas.

ANSWERS:
A is correct. Historians place the introduction of folded fans to China around about 1,000 years ago. They were usually made with fine paper mounted on bamboo and scholars of the day would paint their poetic and artistic expressions on the surface.

A great variety of fans have been produced in China; sandalwood, ivory, even gold, silver and jade have been used as material.