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The article is devoted to linguocognitive and linguocultural analysis of somatic phraseological units (hereinafter - SPU) of the Chinese language with the dominant components "face" and "heart". The relevance of the study is the lack of research on Chinese phraseology with somatisms in the semantic and linguocultural aspects and the growing interest of modern linguistics to a somatic metaphor. The aim of the study is to identify the ethnocultural code of culture in SPU with somatisms "face" and "heart". The research tasks: identify and systematize SPU with somatisms "face" and "heart"; consider the linguocognitive and ethnocultural properties of SPU; reveal the role of somatic components of the studied SPU; to give a semantic characteristic to the chosen SPU, describe their significative-denotative meaning, evaluativity, functional stylistic and emotional-expressive connotations. The material of the study was the author's records of over 2,500 SPU. Conceptual analysis, cognitive modeling, diachrony and synchrony, deductive, inductive, functional and historical-etymological methods were used. The scientific novelty of the work is that this study for the first time presents a somatic code of culture in the semantics of figurative means. The theoretical significance of the research is to develop the scientific understanding of the somatic ethnocultural code of culture and their methods of verbalization, to determine the specific discreteness that the SPU with the "face" and "heart" components implement in the Chinese linguistic view of the world.