The ancients endowed plants with different images.

The ancients gave different images to plants as follows:

1, Liu: Because of the homonym of "Liu" and "Liu", Liu often appears in farewell poems or travel notes to express his thoughts of parting. The image of "willow" derived from parting can also be extended to miss the hometown of an old friend.

There is also a very common willow image, which is "catkin". Because catkins often float in the air and feel "displaced", they are always used to express sadness.

2. Sycamore: Sycamore is called "Sycamore Tree". The "picky" and "beautiful" phoenix chose to inhabit it because of its noble and beautiful characteristics, which is also the most common phoenix image in ancient poetry.

In ancient times, it was said that the phoenix tree was a male and a female, living and dying together. Therefore, the ancients also used phoenix tree to symbolize faithful love. Indus can also express the feeling of "desolation and bitterness".

3. Three Friends in Cold Year-Song: According to the combination name of "Three Friends in Cold Year", students can also understand that the qualities they symbolize are "tenacity", "nobility" and "vitality".

4, four gentlemen-Meiju: Mei mainly reflects the quality of "noble and aloof". Lan stands for elegance and virtue. Bamboo has two characteristics, which also correspond to its meaning. The first is that bamboo stands upright, symbolizing "integrity", and the second is that bamboo is hollow, symbolizing "modesty". Chrysanthemum is often used to mean "lofty" and symbolizes the quality of not seeking fame and fortune.

5. Lotus: Also known as "the gentleman in the flower". According to "homophonic stalk", we will find that "lotus" and "pity" are homophonic, that is, pity symbolizes that women vaguely feel the love of men.

Image classification:

1. Imitation: It is the image created by the subject by imitating the form of the object world. It is similar to an object in perceptual form and figuration, and even very realistic. Here, the "subject" deliberately retreats behind the scenes, and its creativity seems to be reflected in the simulation of images.

2. Staring: The subject is guided by the image of the objective object world, which provides an opportunity for the receiver to trigger emotions and begin to imagine to complete the image world. Image makes the association of "emotion" unfold, and the "image" generated on this basis is the star. "Xing" in China's classical poems is a typical way of image creation.

3. Metaphor: The subject takes symbols in the objective world and endows them with certain symbolic meanings. The image thus formed is a metaphor, with extremely obvious artificial traces. For example, the swan goose flying alone is compared to a lonely traveler who has no final destination, and plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum symbolize the personality of a scholar-bureaucrat, which constitutes the process of metaphor setting.

4. Abstraction: It refers to an image that the theme of creation is processed by one's own mind and the object is refined and sublimated, and some pure formal symbols are used instead of concrete ones to arouse readers' aesthetic feelings. Every stroke in China's calligraphy art is an abstract individual, but the artistic charm of all abstract symbols in one go strongly proves the significance of abstract images to works of art.