Xinhui Palm Leaf Craft has a long history. Planting palm trees and processing palm leaves began in Xinhui during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After over a thousand years' of exploration by folk artisans, the palm leaf craft—integrating weaving, embroidery, painting, and printing—has reached the pinnacle of perfection. In the last years of the Tongzhi reign period during the Qing Dynasty, Chen Wan created the branded fan, which was listed as a national special handcraft in 1952. In 2002, the Xinhui government built the Xinhui Palm Expo Garden and set the Nantan Island Palm Forest as an important natural ecological zone, with a palm leaf tree variety, research and development areas, and palm leaf craft gardens, so that the craft can be protected and further developed.