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The opposition of the concepts of traditional Chinese philosophy is manifested in the Classics and sets a certain terminological system, which gives the key to the analysis, interpretation, and translation of these classical texts and, precisely, of its philosophical terms. The author analyses the system of oppositions of central ontological terms and proposes an original approach to the translation of classical Chinese texts on the example of the commentary to I Ching, The Great Commentary 系辞传. The paper focuses on the analyses of such oppositional pairs, as 天地, 乾坤, 貴賤, 動靜, 剛柔, 象形, 男女, 易簡, 德業. The second step of this research is the revealing of the usage of these terms in the form of traditional Chinese idiomatic expression chengyu 成语 in the socio-political discourse on the material of the speeches of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping. One of the results of the study is reveling of the fact that these concepts become ideologems in the speeches of Chinese politicians. The author traces the political tradition of modern China and the continuity of the top leadership by the means of linguistic and lexicographic analysis.