Holiday in ancient and modern Chinese culture: a brief historiography of research
Describing the historiography of Chinese culture in Soviet and Russian science, the author of the article identifies four large periods in the study of the nature and specifics of the holiday in Chinese culture. The author discovers that in Russia there is a huge historiography of Chinese holiday culture, especially studies of traditional holidays, their qualified analysis and descriptions; there are separate complex works devoted to a deep comprehensive examination of ancient Chinese civilization and within their framework some place is given to holidays, mainly to festive ritual and its symbolic meanings; However, there are practically no Russian-language works devoted to modern Chinese holidays and their transformation from their ancient origins; there are also no comprehensive, systematizing and generalizing studies regarding the holiday phenomenon as such, approaches to its research in ontological, anthropological, socio-philosophical and sociopsychological, as well as many other aspects. Meanwhile, systematization of the available research, according to the author, is an indispensable basis for the subsequent replenishment of deep semantic and meaningful lacunae regarding the study of the holiday phenomenon ontologically and its specific manifestations in society in general, including Chinese.