中国的古典诗词讲究含蓄隽永,诗人常将自己的身世之感,思想感情借助于笔下的意象,或托物言志,或拟人抒情,间接地表达出来。诗人在创作和评价诗词作品时,最看重的是意象使用的美妙,最忌讳的是平铺直叙,缺乏深刻的意象。而在众多的意象中,蝉又有着它独特的意象,常常是诗人高洁品格的象征和悲凉心境的侧面描绘。 Chinese classical poetry stresses subtle and meaningful. Poets often express their sense of life experience and thoughts and feelings indirectly with the help of the images of their works, or the propositions and the aspirations of the people, or the lyrical personification. The poet in the creation and evaluation of poetry works, the most valued image is the use of the wonderful, the taboo is the most straightforward, lack of profound imagery. In many images, cicada has its own unique image, which is often the symbol of poet 's noble personality and the depiction of the depressing mood.