Young Brunette Girl Near A Brick Wall With A Hand-held Fan

The movement of a hand-held fan provides cooling by increasing the airflow over the skin which in turn increases the evaporation rate of sweat droplets on the skin. This evaporation has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water.
Fans are convenient to carry around, and the folding kind in particular are compact to carry.
Chinese fan has rich cultural deposits, it is a part of chinese national culture, and closely relates to Buddhism and bamboo culture. In China, screen fans were used throughout the country. The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven bamboo side-mounted fans from the 2nd century BC. The Chinese character for "fan" (扇) is etymologically derived from a picture of feathers under a roof. The Chinese fixed fan, pien-mien, means 'to agitate the air'.