The Symbol of "Snake" in Chinese Culture and Its Significance of Ecosemiotics

Abstract

This paper starts with the snake symbol in Chinese culture, and explains its significance of ecosemiotics. The snake symbol in the image of "human head and snake body" in Chinese Nvwa and Fuxi's myths is a kind of body index, which shows the integration of symbolic activities between ancient people and non-human animals, and is a combination of natural signs and cultural symbols.The symbol of the snake has a close relationship with local culture and national memory. The symbolic relationship between the snake symbol and the local entity nature constitutes a “nature-text” and has an impact on the natural environment,which reflects the contextual characteristics of ecosemiotics.The thesis also reflects on the artistic creation of the snake symbol in a postmodern context. Although the creation of snake symbols in China embodies postmodern artistic gestures of breaking dualism and pluralism, the artistic modeling of snake symbols gradually distances itself from the real experience of human beings on the natural environment, and does not reflect the side of ecological ethics.