Is there any allusion or origin to the ivory tower?
According to the fourth quarter of Chapter 7 of the Song of Songs in the Old Testament, Solomon, the wise and rich king of Israel, wrote 65,438+0,005 poems, among which Song of Songs is a love song. In the fifth song, the groom praised the bride like this: "... your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are near the gate of Bartrabbi in Heshbon, like a pool ... (... your neck is like an ivory tower; Your eyes are like a pool near the sliding door of Heshbon Patna; ……)。 Obviously, the ivory tower here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck. Later, the word was gradually applied to all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "an isolated fantasy, a paradise to escape from real life, and an isolated place". In Chinese, the extended meaning of ivory tower mainly refers to "the metaphor of the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life". Universities and research institutes are such places. Reference: What does the ivory tower mean and what is its origin? /question/3983 17.html The ivory tower is 19 th century French literary critic Saint Pevey's criticism of Winnie, a contemporary negative romantic poet in this century. It means getting away from the real society, life, hiding in a lonely and comfortable personal world, and engaging in writing activities with subjective fantasies. Lu Xun once called on revolutionary literary and art workers to walk out of the ivory tower, into the society and into the whirlpool center to create good works reflecting real life. In reality, some people mistakenly think that it means colleges and universities, but it is not!