Following the theory of cognitive semantic and the cultural conception of 心 xīn, this Maper aims to describe the concepts of 心 xīn in present-day Chinese. The study finds out that there is a rich cultural history shaping the Chinese concept of 心

the conceptual metaphors IDEAS ARE FOOD and LOVE IS FOOD in Chinese based on cognitive linguistics aspect. The data were collected from Corpus of Center for Chinese Linguistics (CCL). A result of study indicated that metaphorical expressions found in this study