There are many techniques for image combination, the most typical ones are bixing and antithesis.
Bixing ? It can be said that Bixing is a poetic technique that uses artistic association to connect two or more images together.
This kind of connection is based on one image as the main one and other images as the supplement. The auxiliary image serves as a foil, contrast, analogy or trigger to the main image. Bi plays the first three roles, and Xing plays the latter role. The relationship between the images connected by the ratio may be bright or dark, and there is always an inner context to be found. There is no inherent context to be found in the relationship between the images connected by Yongxing.
Examples of the use of comparison, such as "The Book of Songs·Wei Feng·Bo Xi": "It rains its rain, and the sun rises. I am willing to speak of thinking about Bo, and I am willing to be sick." Zhu Xi said: "I hope his generals will It rains, and the sun rises brightly, in order to compare with the return of the gentleman who will not return. "Li He's "Old Man Picking Jade Song": "The cuckoo's mouth is bleeding and the old man is crying", which is also a comparison, using the cuckoo's blood cry to compare with picking jade. My tears. Examples of the use of Xing, such as "Yangzhi Shui" written by Wang Feng and Zheng Feng in "The Book of Songs", both start with "Yangzhi Shui", but the content of "Xing" is different. Wang Feng's song is about conquering people and thinking about returning home, while Zheng Feng's song is about brotherly discord. It can be seen that there is no inherent necessary connection between the images combined by Xing.
Duality ? Can combine images from different times and spaces.
"The beauty abandoned her crown, and her white head lay in the pine clouds" (Li Bai's "Gift to Meng Haoran"). The first sentence describes Meng Haoran's youth, and the second sentence describes his old age. The time span is very large. The images of these two poems are connected by parallelism. "Spring trees in Weibei, dusk clouds in Jiangdong" (Du Fu's "Li Bai in Spring"), Weibei and Jiangdong are far apart, and the images are connected by duality.
"The building boat sails across Guazhou in the snowy night, the iron horse disperses in the strong autumn wind" (Lu You's "Shu Ang"), there is a leap in time and space: one sentence is winter, the other is autumn; the other sentence is southeast, One sentence is northwest. Because there are dualities that connect them, putting these two sets of images from different times and spaces together does not make people feel awkward. It can be seen that duality is a good bridge connecting images. With it, although there is a jump between images, the reader does not feel it is a jump psychologically, but only feels it is a natural and smooth transition.