The Embodied Mind Theory of Cognitive Linguistics and the Somatics of Translation in Translation Studies help explain the internal structure and contents of the literary translation subjectivity, which, according to the theories, consists of the bodily experience in translation and the cognition based on it.

In the static text-centered studies, the translation subjectivity has been almost completely neglected.

With the “cultural turn” in Translation Studies in the West after the 1970s, proper and increasing attention has been paid to translation subject and translational subjectivity, which have become necessary and important research subjects for translation researchers.

The academic "legislation" on the research of the subject of translation has been supported by the cultural turn in translation studies.

The article points out that as the cognitive structure of the translator,fore-understanding can make both positive and negative impacts on the understanding and translating of texts.

The embodied philosophy enlightens us to consider the English translation of Chinese poems as a cognitive process during which the bodily experienced translator maps and transfers one language into another language.

On the creative treason in poetry translation—From the perspective of the translation subject;

The translator is regarded as the sole subject in the research on translation subject.

China has a long translation history and has formed rich and valuable translation thoughts that can be reflected from modern approaches among which the theory of translation subject has aroused most arguments.