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2. New Tasks in the Study of Classical Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization and Informatization Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: Materials of the 11th International Scientific Conference. June 27–29, 2024 29 Bryleva Natalia (Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University), nusferatu09@mail.ru «Dream of the Red Chamber»: Features of the Theatrical Repertoire in the Novel The materials on the theatre presented in Cao Xueqin’s novel «Dream of the Red Chamber» are impres- sive. In the text we find a description of the home theatre troupe and its functioning, the social status of the actors and the plays they perform, the design of the stage and the venue of the performances. The theatrical performances, games, and enjoyment of life and art of the inhabitants of the Jia family reflect the entertainments characteristic of the rich and powerful families of the middle Qing dynasty. The novel was written in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the time of its writing roughly coincides with the period of the highest development of opera art. This period was marked by the rivalry of several directions in musical drama: «elegant drama» (ya bu 雅部 ), which is more known as Kunshan musical drama (kunqu 崑曲 ) and «flowery drama» (hua bu 花部 ), which consists of a number of regional dramas. A similar picture can be seen in the novel, where they are shown as the most frequently performed and popular musical dramas. Turning to the theatrical repertoire, the author examines a wide panorama of the plays described in the novel. After all, what was obvious to an educated person in Cao Xueqin\'s time and did not need to be clarified now requires extensive comments, since they are hardly understandable to the current reader. And «Dream of the Red Chamber» abounds in a large number of allusions and reminiscences to classical literary works, plays and poems. Theatrical performances and classical plays are mentioned in this or that form in more than 40 chapters of the novel. All these musical dramas and plays, plot twists and characters of the novel are closely related to each other. It enables the reader to look at Cao Xueqin\'s masterpiece from a completely different position — as a source of information about the cultural characteristics of that epoch. The performances and repertoire presented in the novel help to better understand the nature of the characters. Keywords: «Dream of the Red Chamber», Cao Xueqin, theatrical repertoire, musical drama, classical literature. Klementeva Tatiana (IOM RAS), tklementeva1297@mail.ru Structure of Encyclopedic Chapters of the Treatise “Feng su tong yi” 風俗通義 (“Penetrating into the Meaning of Traditions and Customs”, 2nd cent. CE) “Feng su tong yi” 風俗通義 (“Penetrating into the meaning of traditions and customs”, late 2nd century CE) is a treatise written by the Eastern Han 東漢 (25–220) thinker and statesman Ying Shao 應劭 (d. before 204). The received text consists of 10 surviving chapters and a significant number of fragments relating to 21 lost chapters. The surviving ten chapters, in terms of composition and content, could be divided into critical and encyclopedic. In the critical chapters, the author aimed at demonstrat- ing common mistakes made by historical characters or contemporaries regarding their behavior during the service, within the family or when encountering supernatural phenomena, and showed his way of correcting them. As for encyclopedic chapters, the author did not try examine individual actions here, but collected and summarized the most important information about the whole area of knowledge, such as geography, political history, ritual and music, which were significant for governing the state. In my report I am going to examine what structural features do encyclopedic chapters have, and how their content is composed within each section. Based on the analysis, it will be shown that in number of features, such as the breadth of material covered, the presence of glosses for the key terms, as well as