本书分象征与政治象征、政治语言与政治神话、权力结构中的象征分析、政治象征的功能等六章，对政治象征作出的系统性研究，试图为人们研究政治提供一种新的方法，为观察政治提供一个新的视角，从而拓展人们对政治生活的认知范围，加深对政治本质的理解。(The book, divided into six chapters as follows: symbol and political symbol, political language and legends, symbol analysis in power structure, functions of political symbol, launches a systematic research on political symbol and provides a new way and view for people to study and observe politics, so as to extend people's perception range of political life and expand understanding of essence of politics.)