Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) sees transitivity and ergativity as two complementary systems for construing experiential meaning. The former is concerned with the deed-&-extension aspect of experience, with ‘Actor ^ Process’ as the nucleus, and the latter the cause-&-effect aspect, with ‘Medium ^ Process’ as the nucleus. Under this rationale, we probe into the less-studied domain of ergativity in Chinese, by examining how it is expressed along the lexico-grammar continuum. At the lexical end, ergative verbs are those that may occur in the two agnate patterns, ‘NG1 ^ V ^ NG2’ and ‘NG2 ^ V.’ These can also serve as the reference frames for checking the ergative meaning expressed by verb-resultative groups, which are abundant in the language due to its productivity and flexibility. Toward the end of grammar, we recognize event-existentials as the ergative construction, for they typically express the result and state meaning, and the only direct participant occurs post-verbally in the clause. Another syntactic pattern which are typically employed for expressing ergativity is the bǎ-construction with verb-resultative groups occurring clause-finally. Thus Chinese illustrates a language type in which ergativity is expressed all the way along the lexico-grammar continuum, in which the ergative and the transitive models may be combined such that both of their nuclei may co-occur, and they may be interwoven and in cooperation with each other in expressing experiential meaning. This is different both from split ergative languages discussed in linguistic typology, and from the complementarity between transitivity and ergativity as presented in the orthodox SFL literature with English as the major illustrating language.