The exotic fans in the Republic of China were not made in China. The earliest electric fan in China was brought in by an American businessman in 1896. The first person to buy this electric fan was a restaurant in Tianjin at that time. Later, another person bought a strange brand electric fan produced by General Electric Company of the United States and presented it to Empress Dowager Cixi. Before the advent of modern electric fans, China had a fan history of more than 2, years, which was surprising and pride of chinese.

the origin of exotic fans in the Republic of China

in 1914, in the third year of the Republic of China, three people cobbled together funds, and Yang Jichuan made the first electric fan in China, mainly imitating the exotic electric fan in the United States. In February, 2, he, Yang Jichuan and Yuan Zongyao raised another 2 silver dollars to set up Huasheng Electric Appliance Factory in Hengbangqiao, Sichuan North Road, and began to manufacture limited ammeters, transmission transformers and DC generators.

In the 6th year of the Republic of China, he, Yang Jichuan and Yuan Zongyao raised more than 1, taels of silver to buy Yuanda Electric Appliance Factory on Zhaofeng Road, which is now in Jinruili, Levin Road, as the new site of Huasheng Electric Appliance Factory, expanding the production scale. Since then, the three men have officially resigned from their positions in the foreign firm and concentrated on running the Watson factory, with him as the manager, Yang Jichuan in charge of production and Yuan Zongyao in charge of finance. In 8 years of the Republic of China, he bought more than 1 mu of land in Zhoujiazui Road to expand Huasheng Electric Appliance Factory.