Symbolic signs of the "sun" concept in the Chinese language picture of the world

Ma Jiaqi

In this article, the author examines the features of the objectification of symbolic features of the concept of "sun" in the Chinese linguistic picture of the world. To achieve this goal, the methods of conceptual linguoculturological analysis are used. Linguistic symbols are of an archetypal nature. They combine different planes of reality into a single whole in the process of semantic activity in a particular culture. The symbol has a rich range of reproducibility in both oral and written speech and virtually endless boundaries of semantic interpretation. The prospect of seeing a symbol in a context turns into a breadth of semantic variation. On the basis of a large phraseological dictionary of the Chinese language, as well as these dictionaries of symbols, conceptual metaphors are analyzed that verbalize symbolic signs characteristic of the Chinese conceptual system: "truth", "fact", "emperor"

Keywords:sun, linguistic picture of the world, concept, linguoculture, symbolic signs of the concept