Shanghai Museum’s collection of fan paintings and calligraphy spans nearly a millennium, from Northern Song silk fans to modern folding fans, covering landscapes, flowers and birds, figures, and calligraphy. The exhibition presents around 100 works from the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and modern periods, highlighting how fan art evolved alongside Chinese painting and calligraphy. Visitors can see rare pieces like Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji’s earliest surviving calligraphy on a silk fan, Yuan dynasty painter Sheng Mao’s landscape fan, and Ming and Qing folding fans by leading artists of their time. The show traces both the artistic techniques and cultural context of fan painting, offering a concentrated glimpse into Chinese aesthetic traditions and the literati culture that nurtured them.