COMPARISON OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE PAREMICS WITH THE COMPONENTS "BLACK" AND "WHITE"

WU QIONG

The article presents a comparative analysis of Russian and Chinese paremics containing the components - color designations "white" and "black". The adjectives "white" and "black" are considered from the point of view of their cultural meanings. It is noted that the symbolism and associative relations in the two languages do not coincide, which allows to trace a number of features of the Chinese and Russian linguocultures.

Keywords:linguoculturology, paremy, color semantics, adjectives "white" and "black"