The rhetoric in Chinese language is not only an essential part in Chinese, but also an important factor in Chinese culture. The application of many specific rhetoric expression habits and figures of speech such as analogy, exaggeration, anadiplosis and palindrome are gradually formed in long-term language activities of Han people. As a result, they are full of strong cultural coloring, national coloring and historical coloring as well as times coloring, fully indicating the outlook of life, value and aesthetic standards of Han nationality.
In Chinese language, the rhetoric of showing connotation, circumbendibus and modesty is really rich, which has close relation with the long-term traditional culture of China such as centralization of authority, constrained thoughts, advocating community and upholding the aesthetic standard of controlling the individual emotion. Some students who pay special attention when they learn Chinese language might have found that Chinese has no morphological changes and the main grammar means are word order and function words. Chinese is also characterized by the flexibility of morpheme combination, homoorganicity of words and phrases as well as the patent that adjectives can function as both attribute and predicate.
The Chinese based on the period and comma is brief, flexible and full of rhythm. The flow of speech in Chinese is continuous and the dynamic rhythm and the power of cohesion. All of those features in Chinese create wide space for the creation of the rhetoric, improving the beauty, dynamic and delicate and profound meaning of Chinese language into a new level. Balance is a kind of aesthetic standard indicated in the rhetoric activity of Han people which is closely related to the ways that Han nation know about the world.
During the process when you study in qualified Mandarin program in China, you may often hear the theories that man is an integral part of nature and the harmonious relationship between human and nature. Those aesthetical altitudes of balance can be indicated in the architecture design, furnishing and decoration and even the banquet.
You should know that the aesthetic altitude of balance is also influenced by the beauty of balance in Chinese language structure. It is because Chinese language has the beauty of balance in the aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar that Chinese people gradually form the aesthetic attitude of beauty of balance in the process of using the language, and then explore the regularity of the beauty of balance.