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The term of traditional culture and philology of China Diangu (典故) denotes classic precedents, plots, quotes from classical sources, aphorisms. If we analyze the articles of numerous Chinese diangu dictionaries, we can conclude that all of them include units, which in their majority 1) are stable and are regularly reproduced in speech; 2) can be unfolded to the scope of a small text; 3) are always associated with any famous personalities and events (historical or fictional); 4) they name an event (situation, phenomenon) or character. All of the above, we believe, allows us to correlate the concept of diangu with the concepts of a precedent phenomenon, a precedent statement, a precedent name, a precedent situation. Diangu occupy an important place in the modern communication of the Chinese. We believe that it was the ancient precedent phenomena (texts, situations, names, statements) that largely formed some important Chinese behavioral strategies. Our analysis made it possible to concretize the meaning of the term of traditional Chinese philology Diangu. We also correlated the terms used in Russia with the terms of Chinese scholars, and developed a classification and term system for describing and analyzing precedent names and other precedent phenomena (diangu) of Chinese-language discourse. Studying Diangu helps to better understand the behavioral strategies and national character of the Chinese.