Prevod

In earlier times, the handles of feather fans were carved from wood in the likeness of a wing bone, and ten feathers were set in each fan, ten being the number of completeness. When Wang Dun set out on his southern campaign, he introduced a long handle that projected below the fan and could be grasped. He also reduced the number of feathers to eight. Those versed in the meaning of omens condemned this, saying, “A feather fan represents wings. By introducing a long handle, he means to seize the handle and control the wings. By changing ten to eight, he means for the incomplete to dispossess the complete. Surely this portends that Dun will usurp power, seize control of the court, and, though a man without virtue, seek to steal a position to which he has no right.”