COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RUSSIAN AND CHINESE IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

Yang Xiao

The article deals with the analysis of Russian and Chinese idiomatic expressions on the example of idioms with lexical components: head, mountain, sea and eyes. Chinese idiomatic expressions differ from Russian ones in the fact that they require deep comprehension. Whereas Russian idiomatics is created by the people, in the course of the historical development of society, so the tasks and reasons for the emergence of idiomatic expressions in Russian are different from those in Chinese. Russian and Chinese belong to different language systems, but there are some similarities in the perception of certain things.

Keywords:comparison, idiomatic expressions, equivalent, culture, tradition, phraseology.