By denying the traditional division between literal and figurative language, with metaphor as a kind of figurative language, this paper illustrates that the nature of metaphor is cognitive, and that metaphorical expressions are merely the surface linguistic manifestation of our metaphorical conceptual system.

Metaphor,as a concept with long history has been studied deeply and got a set of comparatively complete theory;while cultural metaphor is in fact a brand-new concept within the research field of linguistics.

Gannon s trio of books on cultural metaphors.

In other words, the study of cultural metaphor in person deixis helps to keep informed on pragmatic principles of deixis.

On the basis of simply introducing symmetry of the information, this text analyses the post-figurative culture s characteristics of the family education in the environment of information symmetry, and constructed the new frame of the family education in the age of the post-figurative culture.

With the coming era of "post-figurative culture" , educational regurgitation-feeding has become an important part of education, featuring objective diversification, content dispersion, method occultation and effectiveness lag currently.

In the typical agriculture society,it was transferred from the older to the younger and thus formed a kind of post-figurative culture.

The American cultural anthropologist Margaret Meed puts forward the theory of "three figurative cultures"from the view of cultural transmission,which has significant enlightening meaning to the implementation of education.