Image refers to a specific form or gesture that can arouse people's thoughts or emotional activities. Image in literary theory refers to language image, that is, artistic image formed by language, also known as literary image. It is a special form in which literature reflects real life. It is also the creative embodiment of the writer's aesthetic concept in literary works.

1. refers to specific things.

"Lv Chunqiu Shun Shuo": "A good talker is a skillful scholar, who stands on his own feet because of human strength, and goes away because of coming. No image, life and long life, but sound; With the same prosperity and decline, return to it. "

2. refers to portraits.

"The Story of the East View": "Draw a picture of a tiger to persuade scholars." Song Luyou's "Li Kai is Zeng's Langqi": "On bamboo and silk, Xiao looks like a painter, and it can't be hung down."

3. Statues, idols.

Yan Zhitui in the Northern Qi Dynasty wrote "Yan Family Instructions: Returning to the Heart": "Counties and counties were burned and lived in temples. The people took the cow wine as a gift, and the county magistrate tied the cow to a post, removed the statue, set a table, and welcomed guests in the hall. "

4. Symbols.

Jin Gan Bao's "Searching for the Gods" Volume 10: Mao Zi is a gift, and Hanoi is also pregnant with people. At the beginning of Guanghan, the dream sat in the main hall, with three ears of grain on the pole. Mao took it and got the ear, but I lost it. In order to ask Guo He, the main book, he said,' People who live in the main hall have the image of the government.' "

5. shape; Looks like it.

Qing Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio Gong Sunxia: "When the emperor read it, he said angrily,' The word is wrong, not like it! How can this city be a people's club? "The fifth and third chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions:" How dare you bring something with this image! " 1983 Brief introduction of Yuan Jiashan: "Suddenly, the image of Lv Dongbin appeared in front of me, so (Yuan Keli) hurried to pray and beg for blessing."

6. It refers to a special anti-reality way that literature and art are different from science. That is, from the standpoint of aesthetic ideal, the writer creates a life picture with certain ideological content and artistic appeal according to various phenomena in real life. Usually also refers to characters in literary and artistic works.

7. Describe or express concretely and vividly.

Zhang Xianliang's Soul and Body III: "These words with no literary talent vividly illustrate the significance of his works."