A.A. Vereshchagin gives the following position - symbols of fan:" it is married" - he says, brushing off, the developed fan; "you to me are indifferent" - being shut;"be contented by my friendship" - one leaf is opened; "you suffer, to you I sympathize" - two leaves are opened; "can be daring and decisive" - fan is held by arrow; "you my idol" - is completely opened and so on. In Russia there were special books, which trained, first of all russian ladies the language of fan.
The symbolic language of fan required of the russsian ladies give knowledge and strict observance of the rules of behavior, it always it the text- information, allotted for the specific position of the fan: "in order to express agreement yes - should be applied fan by left hand to the right cheek. No - to apply the open fan by right hand to the left cheek. I love you - by right hand the heart by the closed fan. I do not love - to make the closed fan motion to the side. Be careful, us they follow - by the open fan to touch the left ear. Do not come late - the right side of the open fan to hold before the fact, with whom is conducted the conversation, and to then rapidly shut him. Do not come today - to conduct by the closed fan along the outer side of hand". To cost to note that not only the position of fan could be read as text, but also even color of fan, selected to the toilet, contained the specific information about the mood of the owner: "black - grief, red - the gladness, blue - constancy, faithfulness, violet - humbleness, yellow - the failure, brown - short duration happiness". The more complex color combinations, which require the more complex recognition, were encountered: "black with the white - destroyed peace/world, pink with the blue - love and faithfulness, removed by sparklets - hardness and doveriye"shch. It is possible to say that the Russian culture, defined by example borrowing this element of "eastern" suit as fan, manufactures following adaptive communicative strategies:strategy of the adoption of form, strategy of the adoption of descourse and strategy "thing-word- world". Last communicative strategy strictly and translates the external language (in particular, form, the condition of fan) to the language of internal speech, forming thus the complex semantic field of the readings of the positions of fan, its color variety.