Humans have a long history of use of gole.In ancient China,gold gradually became an emblem of such valuable things as wealth,talent,virtue,will,and prestige.Consequently,use of“金”in rhetoric became very popular in ancient Chinese cultrue,and the use of this figure of speech involves a wide range of things.Its pragmatic forms are manifested chiefly in such rhetorical devices as mataphor,metonymy,respectful form of address,and laudatory title.
