W250xH380mm, China
Before the introduction of the electrical fan, the hand held fan are essential household items. Poorer family would uses the palm leave fan, while the wealth ones with goose feather fans.
Goose feather fans has been associated with Zhu Ge Liang, the strategist of the San Guo period around 200AD. Since then, the goose feather fan took on also as a symbol of wisdom and power. There is the Chinese proverb “waving the goose feather fan” about the person who is the brain behind the show, the hand behind puppet.
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