The simbolic mianings of things

The article shows the symbolic meanings of things in the history of culture. At first, thing was only a sign of wealth and owner's status, later social relations affected these symbolic features. Thing acquires emotionality and the sense of inner world. The totality of things is included in the cultural context and due to this fact it gives an opportunity to reconstruct by a thing the particular features of epoch, private life, national characteristics and culture of specific region and time period.