Zhu Xiang, a modern poet with strong traditional culture awareness, has used a large number of national mythological images in his new poems, and he has focused on integrating the complex symbolic meaning and a strong enlightenment spirit into the construction of images, and expressed his modern concept of satirizing the reality, calling for heroes and pursuing liberation through the “ancient events”. In terms of the aesthetic level, the national mythological images, with their own features of transcendence, irrationality and originality, have added the beauty of spirituality, charm and simplicity to Zhu Xiang’s poems.The national mythological images have highlighted the classical aesthetic style of Zhu Xiang’s poems, and enriched the image system and creative techniques of the modern new poetry.