What is an image? What is artistic conception?

Image is the combination of (object) image and (emotion) meaning, that is, the image in a poem, which includes not only the characters in the poem, but also the scenery and objects written in the poem and the author's feelings. Poetic images vary from thing to thing, some are landscapes and some are objects; Some things, some people; Some are single, some are multiple.

For example, Su Shi's "The Works of Huang Huiyuan's Dwelling in a Dwelling House" "When there is no moon, people are Jing Chu. Who sees you alone? " A vague and lonely shadow. I woke up but looked back. I hate nobody. After picking up all the cold branches, I refused to live in a lonely sandbar. "The poet's melancholy mood is expressed by images such as' lack of moon',' sparse trees',' lonely people' and' cold branches'.

In Wang Wei's bamboo house, I leaned alone in the dense bamboo forest, playing the pipa and humming a song. The sound was so low that no one could hear me. Only my partner Mingyue was composed of bamboo forest, solitary piano, long whistle and Mingyue.

In Bai Juyi's Memories of Jiangnan, "Sunrise flowers are better than fire, and the riverside is as green as blue", and the two images of "flowers in the river" and "in the river" are enough to illustrate Bai Juyi's happy life.

In Liu Yong's "A Cold Rain Bell", "Where will the wine wake up tonight, Yang Liuan, and the wind will fade away from the moon", we can know that the feelings conveyed are sad and farewell through images such as willow and the wind will fade away from the moon.