Author(s)

Wenrui Li, N.E. Iakimenko

Corresponding Author

Wenrui Li

ABSTRACT

The article begins with the development of beauty stereotypes in the Russian and Western art, tries to explore man's insight into the internal and external beauty, and concludes that the national cultural differences in assessing one's appearance are associated with historically established standards and stereotypical ideas about beauty Through the comparative analysis of proverbs about people's appearance in the Russian and Chinese languages, this paper further demonstrates axiological assessment is an important component of linguistic-culturological analysis, as it is a unique instrument reflecting the cultural/national values/anti-values in proverbs.

KEYWORDS

Proverb, phytonym, ornithonym, somatism, the view of the world, Russian languages, Chinese languages