Abstract: In ancient Chinese novels,there is often such a “beauty picture” legend:because of the man's obsession,he painted a beauty and came to the real world like a legend,and became a romantic relationship with the man.After a period of tenderness,the birth of children,secular happiness is eventually accused by someone as a demon because a woman is too beautiful or behaving abnormally.Faced with the sudden suspicion of the man,the beauty returns painfully to the original picture.The motif of this “beauty picture” legendary story has lasted forever has been influenced by folklore,Buddhism and Zen,but more importantly,it is because traditional society “beauty is a fairy” and “recognizes beauty as a goblin” and other legendary cognitive psychology,which contains aesthetic experiences such as “painting as real”,“true as painting”,“beautiful as a demon”,and “reality is fantasy”.Specifically,in this kind of legendary “beauty picture” story which is reasonable,the reason why the “beauty” in the painting can walk off the screen and have an affair with real characters is mainly because the “beauty picture” is so vivid and easy produce aesthetic hallucinations,and a legendary story full of fantasy has evolved.It can be said that this kind of legendary story narrative contains both commendatory and derogatory aesthetic principles such as “art can communicate with the spirit”,“love can communicate with the spirit” and “love is licentious”,which is a concrete legendary interpretation of abstract and vivid charm.

Key words: beauty pictures, legends, vividness, fairy demonization, fantasy aesthetics, popular allusion dissemination philosophy