The woman appears to have once held aflower in her right hand, until the painter began to rework it into a fan indicated by a blur of white paint and the upward gaze of her child.
But bamboo is something of a tragic plant -- it only floweronce in its lifetime -- and the Jiuzhai Valley bamboo flowered and died in the 1980s, depriving pandas of the food that makes up 99% of their diet.