Connotative semantics of colour in the Nanai traditional culture

The culturological features of any ethnic group are based on national codes contained in the language, traditions and key images of popular ideas about the world. This study investigates connotative semantics of colour in the Nanai traditional culture. In order to identify the features of the reflection of the main culturological concepts of the Nanai people in their color scheme, it is necessary to analyze the significance of some objects of the material culture of the ethnos, the content of folklore samples of collective creativity in the processing of the Nanai writers, ethnographers and researchers of the spiritual culture of the Nanai ethnos, as well as materials of the Nanai decorative and applied arts. The specificity of the connotative meanings of the primary colors (white, yellow, black, red, blue and green), which make up the color code of the Nanai traditional culture, has been revealed. The results of the study showed that it captures the mythological way of thinking of the Nanai ethnos, as well as the dual attitude of the people to various natural phenomena, formed at the early stages of the development of society