Ai Qing wrote and published 48 1 poems in his life, among which more than 80 poems contained animal images. More than 50 different animal images constitute the animal system with rich levels and profound connotations in Ai Qing's poems. Among them, the images of livestock and poultry have various forms and rich symbolic colors, which shows the poetic beauty tendency of Ai Qing's poems combining "suffering beauty" with "sublime beauty". Ai Qing endowed animals with language and personality through metaphor and symbol, and created animal images beyond the limitations of the times.