Philosophical and aesthetic connotations of fish culture in the ancient literary works

Abstract:

Fish is a sign with rich implications in Chinese culture.Although fish is widely loved by people as a symbol of abundance and love,get in the ancient literary works,fish culture took on different colors.Because of the uncertain social status of ancient scholars,they had a very special emotion for fish,considering they were in the same boat,and therefore expressed various thoughts and feelings about life.Scholars were familiar with the folk culture of fish,but they were not content to use their talents to simply inherit and spread the ancestors’fish culture,and paid more attention to expressing their own emotions by describing the fish and created the fish culture with their own class characteristics.In their writings,fish was not only a symbol of wealth,but with more noble and refined implications;it not only embodied the author’s own image,but also symbolized the leisure life that people aspired to live.Therefore,it can be said that fish was not only a tool for scholars’self-reflection and self-expression,but also the basis on which they explored the world.Compared to a widespread folk culture of fish,the fish culture in literary works has a more abundant connotation of philosophy and aesthetics.