Fan, Traditional - Fragrant sky, Bamboo

Fan, Traditional - Fragrant sky, Bamboo

This fan is made of bamboo and rigid satin-finished fabric with a traditional floral design on a gold background.
On the front you will find a bouquet of 4 peonies of different colors. One red, one purple and two pink. This diversity of flowers and the sweet scent of peonies inspired the name of this fan.
On the back, you can admire a poem about love, the main symbol of the peony.

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

• Gilded fan decorated with peonies and poems.
• Right-handed model
• Leaf composition : rigid satin-finished fabric
• Height : 33 cm
• Thickness : 2.5 cm
• Guards and sticks composition : bamboo
• Colour of the guards and sticks : red
• Width of the guards : 3 cm
• 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".