Chinese Poetry In The "ode To The Moon Poem" Conceptual Metaphor

Moon poetry plays an important role in Chinese classical poetry due to the correspondence between the aesthetic thinking of the Chinese people and the characteristics of the moon. Scholars have done much research on it and have made great achievements in this field. However, they have rarely analyzed it from a linguistic perspective. Therefore, the author tries to discuss the moon poetry by virtue of the conceptual metaphor theory in cognitive linguistics so as to explore the metaphorical expressions of the moon in the aspects of philosophy, ambition, emotion of the poet. This will extend the research areas of the moon poetry and prove the universality of cognitive metaphors. Moreover, it is a new attempt to study the Chinese language that takes the cognitive linguistics as a theoretical foundation to approach the Chinese classical literature.