In ancient Chinese poetry, some basic structural units have the same meaning, such as fallen flowers, running water, lotus flowers, lotus flowers, spring, dusk, wind and rain. From the linguistic point of view, they are figurative words, and from the psychological point of view, they are the long-term accumulation of feelings in deep consciousness of human beings who use the same language.
The so-called image is one of the most important components of poetic art (the other is temperament), or there are two main factors that play an organizational role in a song: temperament and image.
-"Poetry Image Theory-A Preliminary Study of the History of Micro-poetry" Geng Jianhua