"Ivory Tower" mainly refers to a paradise that is isolated from the world and escapes from the real society. According to Chapter 7, Section 4 of the Bible's "Song of Songs" in the Old Testament, the wise and wealthy King Solomon of Israel once composed 1,005 hymns, among which the fifth song of the love song "Song of Songs" comes from.
In Chinese, the ivory tower originally refers to forgetting the ugly and miserable life in reality, and hiding in one's ideal happy state to engage in creation. It means to transcend reality, stay away from life, and hide in one's own place. Small world refers to engaging in writing activities based on subjective fantasy; the denotative meaning is mainly "a metaphor for the small world of writers and artists who are divorced from real life."
The term "ivory tower" was later gradually applied to all aspects of society and life. The ivory tower is just a concept that people use to talk about the unreality of life or the darkness of society. Some people today also think that it means university. University is indeed beautiful compared to society, but after all, it is just an imagination of the future.
Mr. Lu Xun once called on revolutionary writers and artists to get out of the ivory tower, go into society, feel life, and go into the center of the whirlpool. Only in this way can they create good works that reflect real life.