The aim of this article is to compare the linguistic pictures of rain in Polish and Chinese phraseology, to show their similarities and divergences, and to present the valuation of the ‘rain’ element itself. The study also attempts to find the reasons for the differences existing in linguistic interpretations of reality created by Polish and Chinese people. The semantic-lexical and comparative analysis was carried out using the theory and tools of the linguistic picture of the world, which makes it possible to learn and understand non-superficially the culture preserved in the language of given nations. The research includes the lexicographic data extracted from Polish and Chinese monolingual dictionaries (general and phraseological) and from Chinese-English bilingual dictionaries. The analysis showed, inter alia, that the reconstructed worldviews share common features resulting from both the physical characteristics of rain and the communicative function of language. The discrepancies are, however, more visible, and the linguistic pictures specific to Polish and Chinese highlight the differences in the perception of reality by the users of these languages.