Keyword: «traditions of hospitality»
The article examines the study of the tradition of hospitality in Russian and Chinese proverbs in the lesson of Russian as a foreign language. In accordance with the principle of "dialogue of cultures", a lesson plan was developed in the Chinese audience, an adapted cultural text was compiled, words were translated into Chinese, questions and tasks were proposed that allow for a comparative analysis of the proverbs of the students ' native culture and the country of the language they are studying. The result of the work carried out is the enrichment of the lexical stock, the development of the ability to analyze and generalize, the formation of cultural and linguistic competence of foreign students.