Fan, Traditional - Renewal, Bamboo
This two-coloured fan is made of bamboo and rigid satin-finished fabric and has a pure and traditional design.
On the front it shows a mountainous landscape with two people sailing across a lake. According to the poem on this side, this crossing represents a journey to new horizons by making a clean sweep of the past; hence the name of this fan.
On the reverse side you can see four Chinese characters symbolising a silent struggle to get rid of a tumultuous past.
This fan is not suitable for traditional Tai-Chi practice (slamming of the weapon).
It is designed for decoration and demonstration, it can also be used in summer :)
The characteristics of the fan
- White and black fan with a typical mountainscape and a poem
- Right-handed model
- Leaf composition : rigid satin-finished fabric
- Height : 33 cm
- Thickness : 2.5
- Guards and sticks composition : bamboo
- Colour of the guards and sticks : red
- Width of the guards : 3
- Sticks number (without the guards) : 13
- Scope when deployed (measurement at the top of the upper and lower guards) : 58 cm
- Weight : 95 g
The different parts of a fan
- The leaf (also named mount) : fabric or canvas of the fan, it is the most decorated part
- The guards : thick branches at the extremities.
This part protects the fan when it is closed
- The sticks: branches located between the 2 pieces of leaf (fabric). The visible ones are called "sticks" and those covered by the leaf are called "ribs" or "slips".