SPATIAL CONCEPTS “HEAVEN” AND “EARTH” IN THE RUSSIAN, BURYAT AND CHINESE PHRASEOLOGICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLD

Abstract

The article deals with the phraseological units of the Russian, Buryat and Chinese languages with the components “Heaven” and “Earth”, which are key spatial images in the culture of each nation. Heaven and Earth are the basic categories that translate the religious, mythical, national and cultural sphere of the people. The purpose of the article is to identify coincidences and discrepancies in the interpretation of these spatial constants. In the course of the study, it was found that in addition to universal features, the phraseological corpus of the studied languages contains unique ethnomarkers that determine national identity. Their linguistic comprehension will provide significant assistance in the process of intercultural communication of Russians, Buryats and Chinese, who actively interact on the territory of the Republic of Buryatia.