COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CONCEPT “TEA” IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE LINGUOCULTURES

Abstract

Tea is an indispensable daily drink for the peoples of China and Russia, and tea culture constitutes a significant part of their spiritual and cultural life, although its cultural characteristics and connotations differ. The concept, as a key research category, is now one of the hot topics of linguoculturology. Grounded in the results of Russian and Chinese research, comprehensively applying the methods of dictionary interpretation, conceptual analysis and comparative induction, beginning with the level of linguistic expression of the concept “tea”, using linguistic semantic and cultural semantic analysis of the conceptual words “tea” in Russian language and “茶” in Chinese language, the writer attempts to comparatively study the concept “tea” in Chinese and Russian cultures. The purpose of the study is to better understand the symbolic meanings of the concept “tea” in the two cultures, and trace its impact on the historical development of the the national language, and finally reveal the characteristics and differences of the linguistic picture of the world of the two peoples.