Fan, Traditional - Renewal, Bamboo

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".