This book presents the same theme from different perspectives: the Chinese grammar with the antiphonal format as the main body. The first article explains from the antithesis of Tang poetry that the grammar of Chinese is "big grammar" and the nouns are "big nouns" , to get rid of the concepts of Indo-European minor grammar and minor nouns. The second article demonstrates that the relationship between Chinese grammar and rhythm is not a separation relationship, nor an intersection relationship, but an inclusive relationship in which grammar includes rhythm. The third article explains the organizational structure of Chinese It is the interweaving of anti-verbal intertextuality and serial linkage, and it is "based on antithesis, and there is antiquity in the continuation". The focus of the fourth chapter is on "taking antiquity as the basis", explaining the origin of the four-character pattern and answering why it is so The issue of "four". The focus of the fifth article is on "pairs in continuation", which explains the dynamic nature of "pairs in succession" in running sentences and the principle of "animation design" in Chinese. The Chinese grammar in Shen Jiaxuan's thought can be summarized as: the words, sentences, and chapters are coherent, the sounds, shapes, and meanings are integrated, and the emotions and meanings are conveyed in the same way.

SHEN Jiaxuan worked as a Research Professor at the editorial department of Studies of the Chinese Language, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1999 to 2009, he served as the director of the Institute of Linguistics, director of the Academic Committee, and dean of the Linguistics Department gaining the State Council allowance and awarded the title of National Expert with Outstanding Contributions", "Senior Translator", etc. He worked as a chief editor of the journals Studies of the Chinese Language and Contemporary Linguistics. His academic research focus on syntax and semantics, linguistic theory, and English-Chinese comparisons. He has published more than one hundred papers at home and abroad, including "Examples of Slip of the Tongue", "Bounded" and "Unbounded","Nouns and Verbs in Chinese", "Subject-Predicate Sentences", and so on. His monograph includes nouns and verbs in Chinese, Five Topics in Macro-Grammar of Chinese etc. and his main translation works are language universals and linguistic typology and A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics.