Ivory tower is based on Chapter 7, Section 4 of the Bible "Old Testament, Song of Songs" (the Old Testament, song of songs). The wise and wealthy King Solomon of Israel once wrote a poem 1005 song, which comes from the fifth song of the love song "Song of Songs".
The poem describes that the singing groom praises the bride like this, "...Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim..." (... Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are like the pool by the gate of Heshbon Patnarah;...). It is clear that the "ivory tower" here is only used to describe the bride's beautiful neck.
The 19th-century French poet and literary critic Sainte-Beuve Charles Augustin (1804-1869) criticized the contemporary French romantic poet Vigny in his letter "To Wellman" The pessimistic and negative emotions in the works of Alfred Victor (1797-1863) advocate that the writer escapes from the vulgar bourgeois reality and enters a subjective fantasy world of art, the tower of ivory.
Extended meaning
Sociological terminology
The term "ivory tower" was later gradually used in all aspects of social life, mainly referring to "detached from real life" A small world for writers and artists." In Chinese, the ivory tower originally refers to a person who ignores the ugly and miserable life in the real society and hides himself in his ideal and happy state to engage in creation. It means to detach from the real society, stay away from life, and hide in a lonely and comfortable personal world. Engage 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." Universities and graduate schools are just such places.
Psychological terminology
The ivory tower refers to the colorful and illusory universe in the hearts of imaginative people.
Terms of technological fantasy
The ivory tower also refers to a fantasy technology that needs to be proven, especially the cutting-edge issues of space exploration, said the science fiction book "The Mystery of the Ivory Tower" That's what it means.
Game terminology
In "Game Paradise 2", Ivory Tower is the largest wizard school in the world. An ivory tower stands in the center of a cave that looks like a huge caldera. Underground, the central Narberait stores are housed together and are strictly off-limits to the general public. It is pious and serious inside, with a magician's guild and an orc guild. Legend has it that there is also a passage to another space. Main monsters: There are many magical creatures gathered around the ivory tower that are attracted by the power of the meteorite. Moreover, some of the creatures that escaped from the ivory tower magician's research experiments even threatened the surrounding adventurers.