擬物立象

　　通過捕捉自然界和社會生活中具體事物的感性形象，加以模擬與提煉概括，創(chuàng)造出藝術(shù)家心目中獨有的藝術(shù)形象。這一創(chuàng)作理念來源于《周易》。《周易》用設立卦象象征天下的萬事萬物及其變化規(guī)律，啟發(fā)文學藝術(shù)通過具體的藝術(shù)形象來認識與表達自然界與人類自身。這種思維方式對中國古代文學、藝術(shù)理論產(chǎn)生了深遠影響，孕育了意象理論。

Create Images Through Object Imitation

　　This refers to the process in which an artist creates his unique artistic representations of concrete objects, found in the natural world and social life, by mimicking, refining, and synthesizing their perceptual images. This concept for artistic creation comes from The Book of Changes, which uses images of hexagrams to symbolize all things in nature and their rules of change. The Book of Changes has inspired literature and art to make use of concrete artistic images to interpret and describe nature and human beings themselves. This mode of thinking has exerted a far-reaching influence on literary and artistic theories in ancient China, nurturing the birth of the theory of imagery.

引例

　　圣人有以見天下之賾，而擬諸其形容，象其物宜，是故謂之象。（《周易·系辭上》）（圣人用《周易》卦爻來察見天下萬物的奧妙，從而模擬萬物的形態(tài)，選擇適宜的象征物來表達，這樣的表達方式稱為“象”。）

　　Sages use the hexagrams and trigrams described in The Book of Changes to observe the subtleties of all things under heaven and determine what is fitting through the simulation of shapes in different things. Therefore it is called xiang. (The Book of Changes)