RUSSIAN AND CHINESE NATIONAL PERSONALITIES: BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS, PROVERBS AND SAYINGS WITH THE CONCEPT OF “FAMILY”

Abstract

This article is devoted to the characteristics of Russian and Chinese national personalities (RNP, СNP) based on the material of phraseological units, proverbs, and sayings with the concept of "family." Russian and Chinese national personalities are considered for the first time in the article, which has yet to previously be described in a comparative aspect. The family's traditional spiritual and cultural values of Russian and Chinese cultures are analyzed for the first time. Their ideas and attitudes toward marriage, love, women, men, wives, husbands, parents, children, and relations to relatives indicate common or different cultural attitudes among representatives of both linguistic cultures. This is the scientific novelty of this study. This study shows that phraseological units, proverbs, and sayings with the concept of family recorded in Russian and Chinese lexicographic sources differ in quantitative and substantive terms. Russian and Chinese personalities view traditional family values such as marriage, love, women, men, wives, husbands, parents, children, relatives, etc. differently. For the Chinese, family and kinship relations are of great importance, and the preservation of these relations is carried out with the help of cultural values such as marital harmony, procreation, filial piety, fraternal friendship, and peaceful family relations.

Keywords

• национальная индивидуальность
• концепт «семья»
• фразеологические единицы
• пословицы
• поговорки
• national personality
• concept of "family"
• phraseological units
• proverbs
• sayings