The Cultural Implications Of Butterfly Image In The Chinese Classical Literature

"Image, is the embodiment of thought", Wise ancients, in order to catch its elaborate meaning, much like seeking to analyze its image so that they can elucidate the emotion , which is faint subtle, varied and difficult to capture. Therefore, image has already to be one of elements of aesthetics in the Chinese literature at the early time. As one of distinctive image in the Chinese classical literature, butterfly image has a long history. Its development go through prose in pro-QIN dynasty, Poetry and Fu in HAN WEI dynasty and fiction in MING and QING dynasty, and the butterfly's study relates to many field such as philosophy, literature, history, art and so on, and on the whole developing road ,it becomes more and more abundant.As a symbol, the butterfly image of classical literature already integrates itself creature attribute and nature attribute with man's aesthetic states of mind, the conception of society and culture, which shapes butterfly's abundant cultural attitudes, from which it can typically reflect scholar's deep and profound affection, Chinese gentle and charity romantic and enthusiastic life , sentimental culture, tough and persistent spirit ,and it also reflect Chinese spirit mental set, value orientation, aesthetic pursuit, and more it finally reflects the beauty of human nature and feelings.In view of such abundant aesthetics and culture traits, it's important to analyze cultural implication of butterfly image. At the base of collecting and classifying lots of information, proceeding from cultural background created by butterfly image, using the era of geography, social life, ideology and culture, and human scenery as the starting point, this paper tease out its reference conditions and spreading significance in various era, and deeply summarizes a skeleton in the development of butterfly image. Through analyzing butterfly image's aesthetics of such classical story as ZHUANG-ZHOU dreaming butterfly, LIANGZHU Butterfly Lovers and flower's loving with butterfly, the paper can analyze human's beautiful longing and chasing to free, beauty and affection, which the butterfly image itself carried. From the process of butterfly dream and transformation, it can excavate human's perpetually ultimate pursuit and finite thinking to life. And finally, the enlightenment to modern life and the human solicitude to the unity, culture inheritage and life dotting were discussed and analyzed.