“Shi Jing” is one of the important Chinese literary and cultural of properties. It has been interpreted and explained in different opinions and methods for a long time. At the same time, the style and feature of the ancient Chinese are also preserved in the work. It is an important data to study and research the ancient Chinese. For the reason, the paper will focus on the wording in “Shi Jing” to analyze the cognitive model of metaphor and metonymy in the opinions and methods of the cognitive linguistics, and furthermore to explore the metaphor of the climbing plants in “Shi Jing”.