When the housing becomes the house: universal cultural senses of the Chinese tradition

Article is devoted to decoding of semantics of the house. On a material of nominative lexicon, paremiological units, folklore semantic filling binary by opposition «the's - the own», «top - a bottom», «the East - the West», «the North - the South» is considered. The special attention is given to a problem of structuring space and interrelation microcosm the person, at home, macrocosm and a universe.