The Chinese people have a keen aptitude for employing symbolism to convey the concept of "good luck" via the theme of "Eight Immortals." A notable exemplification of this is the concept of "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and Displaying Their Divine Skills." This term is derived from Chinese folklore, where individuals employed symbols of the objects held by the Eight Immortals as emblems, rather than the deities themselves. The "Indirect Eight Immortals" frequently materialize in folk art and are a fundamental aspect of Chinese culture that signifies good luck, embodying the trend of symbolization in Chinese auspicious art. Within the framework of semiotics, we propose to preserve the continuous legacy of Indirect Eight Immortals culture, simplifying its patterns to emphasize design focus and fostering a dialogue between traditional Indirect Eight Immortals culture and modern design. This aims to provide a guiding principle for creating an aesthetic layout with a distinctive national style, leading fashion, and promoting the inheritance and development of Chinese culture.

Due to the development of economy and the Internet, traditional Chinese musical instruments have gradually broken away from the limitations of elegant performance venues like concerts, and have entered the lives of more ordinary people through streaming media works such as animation, games, and online museums as a traditional Chinese cultural symbol. In animation, ekphrasis has enriched the meaning of musical instrument symbols through tangibility, reflecting the influence of traditional Chinese musical instruments; in games, traditional musical instruments have broken through the simple value as a kind of tool and expanded the value of consumer symbol as a social currency; and the online museums have developed due to the digital migration of traditional musical instruments, promoting the traditional musical instruments among the general public.

Steampunk is an aesthetic style based on the Western steam era, which has distinct artistic characteristics and is constantly evolving and innovating under the impetus of the times. As a subculture, steampunk explores society and history with a specific aesthetic imagination, which contains spiritual cores such as optimism, rebellion and freedom. At the same time, under the macro background of increasingly aesthetic contemporary culture, steampunk leads the design innovation and consumption fashion, feeds back the industrial heritage and urban reconstruction, promotes the collage of fragments and the integration of East and West, and demonstrates the expansion of science and technology to artistic creation. Therefore, this essay uses aesthetic theory to observe and analyze the steampunk style, explore its profound spiritual core and rich aesthetic culture, which is of great significance for a deeper understanding of its philosophical connotation and speculative spirit.