RUSSIAN PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A RELIGIOUS CODE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF IDIOMS WITH THE WORD “CROSS”) IN THE ASPECT OF CHINESE LINGUOCULTURE

Abstract

The article studies the semantics of Russian phraseological units with a religious code (with the word “cross”) from the standpoint of the Chinese linguistic tradition. The word “cross” as a key component in phraseological units is an important source of semantics of the studied phraseological units. The study shows that its figurative meaning in modern Russian can be expressed by the Chinese word “痛苦”, which is closely related to the cultural code of Chinese traditional medicine. It is noted that the Chinese equivalents of the biblical phraseological units “heavy cross” and “to bear a cross” are not included in the dictionaries of Chinese phraseological units. Corpus analysis gives an idea of how these Chinese expressions are used in the form of free word combinations. The article provides a linguistic and cultural analysis. As a result, it is revealed that the bearers of cultural codes play an important role in phraseological systems, and the same bearer of a religious-cultural code can have a non-identical impact on different languages depending on the status of a given religious culture among different ethnic groups.