Some people think that yixiang is a translation of English image and associate it with British and American Imagist Poetry in the early 20th century. In fact, image is an inherent concept and word in ancient Chinese literary theory, not a foreign thing.
The birth of ancient Chinese poetry is far earlier than that of British and American poetry. The legendary stories in ancient China are the inspiration of many British and American Imagist poets can best prove the originality of yixiang in China.