The article discusses ways to describe periphrastic anthroponyms in the linguoculturological aspect in order to develop linguoculturological commentaries of the educational linguoculturological dictionary for Chinese students. We focus on the periphrases from literary. As a result of the analysis, the conclusionsare drawn that for the description of periphrastic units it is necessary to reveal the national peculiarities of units, take into account the axiological vector and the linguocultural situation