The formation and development of phraseological theory in the chinese language

The study of phraseological units in linguistics has a long history and is of particular interest, since the experience of a people’s spiritual and cultural development is recorded indirectly, through nationally specific metaphors of real objects and phenomena in the surrounding environment. The article offers an overview of research on Chinese phraseology undertaken in Russian and Chinese linguistics over a period of 25 years, from 2000 to 2025. The work carried out made it possible to assess the current state of phraseological science in the context of studying Chinese phraseology and to identify the areas that attract the attention of young scholars. The description includes not only works on the study of chéngyǔ, but also other types of phraseological units (incomplete expressions (歇后语, xiehouyu), proverbs and sayings (谚语, yanyu and 俗语, suyu), and phraseological combinations (惯用语, guanyongyu)). The review concludes with an assessment of the current state of phraseological research in sinology.

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