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Current linguistics investigates the way human knowledge is reflected in the language. Owing to this fact it has become very acute to explore folklore as a mean of reflecting human knowledge. We concentrate our attention on folk omens, because we take it for a special and very unique genre of folklore. Folk omens represent human observation of nature, the relationship of some natural phenomena. In this article the authors compare the peculiarities of a lexical items rain and snow in Russian and Chinese omens. We t...

Agricultural and Weather-lore is a unique monument of folklore. It accumulates practical wisdom of people, experience gathered during the centuries and carefully passed on from generation to generation. It has been proved that agricultural and weather-lore is closely linked with customs, amulets and talismans. The aim of this article is to reveal whether we can take agricultural and weather-lores for linguistic units. This question has appeared because many scientific investigations have been made devoted to vario...