Representation of the actional code of culture in the Russian and Chinese intercultural phraseological equivalents and correspondences

The article deals with the comparison of the Russian and Chinese phraseological units aimed at the revealing of the general characteristics and the national and cultural specific features of the coding of the cultural information. The subject of the analysis is the actional code, the comparative study of which at the Russian and Chinese material allows to comprehend better the ways of the representation and conceptualization of the reality in the languages of different groups. There is paid special attention to the analysis of the metaphoric reinterpretation of the verbal components of the fixed expressions.