Or the cold weather shall reduce the heat of the day,
It will be cast aside into some box, and removed from the favour of your Majesty,
Even as she is who gave it to you.”
Another woman, who had been disfigured by disease, sent her lover a fan, on which she had written the four following lines:—
“Oh, the fan! Oh, the fan!
You serve to hide my unhappy face.
I am hideously ugly;
And I am ashamed to present myself before my lover.”
Besides these two kinds of fans, there is also the feather fan, which was first made in the time of dynasty of the later Hans.
The Prime Minister, named Tsu-Kia-Liang, used this fan for all his military commands. It was, in his hands, a substitute for the field-marshal’s baton.