Ontology of sixty-year cycles: on the example of Russian history

The author considers the possibility of assigning to five 12 years of the 60-year Chinese cycle of functions that are steadily implemented over several cycles. He proposes a method of ontological modeling, within the framework of which the most general structural diagrams, both modern and ancient, are regarded as functional diagrams. In the course of the analysis, an ontological substantiation of five 12-year periods is proposed. Не analyzes the most famous five-element models of antiquity and modernity, on the basis of which the ontological structure of this cycle and the functions implemented by each of the 12-year periods become clear. Approbation of the obtained universal model of development is carried out on the material of four 60-year cycles of Russian and world history. The analysis showed that some trends are regularly repeated in Russian history, some trends are more significant for Western ones. The result obtained demonstrates that all the listed 5-element models from mythological and philosophical to political, socio-economic, as well as natural sciences occupy a full-fledged place in the modern scientific paradigm.