The article provides a linguo-culturological analysis of the Russian paroemias with the component “laziness” against the background of their Chinese equivalents. The author suggests an axiological evaluation of laziness phenomenon in the Russian paroemias, introduces a classification of paroemiological units from the viewpoint of the cultural values expressed in them. Lacunar paroemiological units are identified. The paper introduces an algorithm for a linguo-culturological analysis of paroemias, which helps to obtain a more detailed description of these units in the educational linguo-culturological dictionary of the Russian paroemias intended for the Chinese students.