“Difficult areas” in the study of historical and cultural authentic texts by Chinese philology students

The article deals with the difficulties encountered by Chinese philology students while reading historical and cultural authentic texts. Particular attention is paid to finding ways to overcome the „difficult areas” and eliminate socio-cultural lacunae, including subjective lacunae, activity-communicative lacunae, text lacunae, lacunae of cultural space and lacunae of cultural background. To overcome the socio-cultural lacunae, the authors propose to use a comprehensive work with a miniature text for a comparative study of two texts of artistic style and popular science from an encyclopedic article.