Image is an important concept in China's ancient literary theory. The ancients believed that meaning was an internal abstract mind, just like an external concrete object; Meaning originates from the heart, and with the help of image expression, image is actually the sustenance of meaning. China's traditional poetry theory actually refers to the artistic processing skills of putting emotion into the scene, borrowing the scene from the scene and blending the scene. The process of poetry creation is a process of observation, feeling, brewing and expression, and a process of reappearing life.
The use of images naturally varies from person to person, from thing to thing, from time to time and from emotion. Generally speaking, the methods of conception can be divided into three categories: Fu, Bi and Xing.
Fu, that is, writing directly, is what the author usually says. In the author's view, an object has the characteristics of expressing one's feelings, and it can be directly used to make this image shoot one's feelings.
Comparison, which is often called metaphor, compares the author's feelings with other things, similes, metaphors or symbols in different ways, and directly compares his feelings with people or things, making them have the characteristics of people or things.
Xing means "say something else first to arouse the words to be sung". Xing must be attached to something, have a concrete image that can arouse Xing, and then make this concrete image penetrate into the author's feelings, thus producing artistic conception.