In terms of the referent and the signified and their relationship, artistic symbols have certain differences compared with general symbols and scientific symbols. The signifiers of general symbols are multi-dimensional, and their referents are relatively single and relatively certain. For example, when listening to a person speaking, you must pay attention to his other performances at the same time. Only the words he uses can be combined with the intonation, expressions, gestures, etc. Only by doing so can we grasp its referent more accurately, and the relationship between the signifier and the referent of a scientific symbol is determined. The reference corresponds one-to-one with the actual object. The signifiers of artistic symbols are similar to general symbols and scientific symbols. The difference is that they have independent value that cannot be ignored. Regardless of music, painting or poetry, their sounds, lines, colors, rhythms and even glyphs and sentence arrangements are all important. It plays a relatively independent aesthetic function, that is to say, the value of artistic symbols also includes its own form rather than just its meaning. Some formalists even believe that these are art itself. The form of the artistic symbol itself is directly presented to people before its meaning, and is felt and appreciated by people. Although you may not understand the profound connotation of the symbol, its formal composition alone can give people aesthetic pleasure and psychological pleasure. . For example, many Westerners do not understand Chinese, but they hang calligraphy works at home as abstract paintings to appreciate their formal beauty. If you can understand the meaning of the words in calligraphy, your aesthetics will go one step further, but the external form of this symbol still has independent aesthetic meaning. The scope of the signifier of artistic symbols is broadened, and the signifier and the referent often have misaligned customary connections. The use of various metaphors and analogies makes this customary connection specious, such as "Pearls are round and jade is smooth", and its referents are It does not refer to the state of pearls and jade, but often refers to the soft and beautiful sound. From a diachronic perspective, scientific symbols have a super-stable nature and have basically maintained their strictly prescribed connotations and denotations throughout ancient and modern circulation; general symbols are in a quiet and constant flow; artistic symbols, on the one hand, consciously inherit the rules, On the other hand, it consciously breaks the rules and becomes the most vibrant and colorful symbolic form in human life.