Metaphorical nomination in chinese gastronomic linguoculture

The article is devoted to the figurative nomination of Chinese national dishes. The purpose of the article is to study Chinese gastronyms with metaphorical semantics as a fragment of the figurative system of the Chinese language. The authors consider two groups of metaphors: anthropomorphic (Henan is the mother of all cuisines of the Celestial Empire ‒ Yu tsai (豫菜), Sichuan is the queen of modern Chinese cooking - Chuan tsai (川菜 ) and ontological (Shaved noodles (刀削面), woody mushrooms muer (木耳) or Juda’s ear), which arose on the basis of the associative connection of subject images and have identical, from the nominator’s point of view, properties. The combination of the figurative and the real (objective and situational) in the motivations of gastronyms is due to the very essence of the general figurative nominative model, conditioned by the practical activities of the Chinese society. Eventbased naming can contain qualitative, albeit subjective, characteristics of gastronyms. This group of the studied material is informative from the point of view of historical or everyday facts from the life of Chinese society, which indirectly reflect a single incident, an occurrence. For example, “Godmother”

(老干妈) ‒ the nickname of Tao Huabi, the owner of a large company, passed into the category of ergonym (company name) Guiyang Nanming Laoganma Flavor Food Co., Ltd., then into the category of gastronym (Godmother Sauce) and the logo of a fashion clothing brand. Parallel names are synonymous names, unrelated to each other and related to the same nomination object. For example, “The pearl of Shandong cuisine – musyuzhou” (木须肉) or “bachelor dish”. The most popular grocery stores have a more extensive hierarchy of synonymous rows for their designation.

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