Abstract: In Chinese classical poetry, objective things are often integrated into social and aesthetic feelings, endowed with subjective emotional functions, and forming literary images.In the transformation from objective images to poetic images, the nouns that record these things often show descriptive semantic function in the context.In the concept references of “different names for the same reality” and the modifier-center double-syllable structures, the descriptive semantic function of nouns is prominently reflected.The factors that affect the generation of descriptive semantic function of nouns include poetic context, aesthetic characteristics of literary language and implicit and concise features of poetic language.The descriptive semantic function of nouns fully reflects the semantic characteristics of the Chinese language and the implicit and concise linguistic features of Chinese classical poetry.

Key words: context, noun, descriptive semantic function