Symbol From The Perspective Of The Image Of The City Of Lanzhou

Semiotics that studies meaning as the basic method provides literature with common theory and methodological framework. The author abstracts the city regional culture and spiritual connotation into specific text, which is a symbolic process. The process interpretation of cultural symbols is social cultural reverse reproduction.The image of Lanzhou in literary and artistic works, is the embodiment of the mental status of the city, which is inner temperament and fundamental value pursuit that is different from other city, is the city’s soul of development and extension. Description and narration on it in many literary works is the interpretation and consideration on the culturalconnotation.The specified image of Lanzhou, is the city’s cultural and social colle ctive imagination, which intervenes spiritual matters without exception, and sum up the overall appearance of city culture. The city’s image processed by the author is active that has the different human perception, is the variation of different main ideologies in different periods, prevailing custom, aesthetic trend and so on. carrying a different meaning.Without exception, as specific description of the Yellow River in Lanzhou that is the unique cultural image in many works, the unique cultural image will expand its meaning to the historical origin and inquiry, and interpret the term for the region, extending to native culture, historical emotions, etc., and deepen to the local humanistic spirit. This image of literary description, is one of the methods that semiotics can become the "image".This paper attempts to interpret city symbols of Lanzhou from the broader cultural field of vision, including any combination of symbolic meaning, regardless of printing, writing, editing of cultural products, which contain various manuscript files, film and television works, folk songs, as well as writing text, breaking through the literature research field limited to text symbols horizon. The paper interprets the Lanzhou culture from three aspects--natural symbol, cultural symbols, and pure symbol (art symbol),and makes the "big picture" in the whole cultural scene, and even the whole history of the significance of phase behavior, which deepens the Lanzhou symbolic image, sets up city cultural image, expands the development space of the culture of Lanzhou. What’s more, It lays the theoretical basis to create a cultural Lanzhou.