Metaphor has appealed to the concern of scholars since ancient times.Philosophers,linguists and psychologists nowadays have carried on metaphor research by studying it from a cognitive perspective through interdisciplinary collaboration.Under the influence of "metaphormania"in the Western countries,is to study metaphor in a particular culture.In this approach,the research is conducted through collecting metaphor-related cultural background knowledge and trying to illustrate the origin,mechanism and operation of meatphor in that culture.The purpose is to try to make the illusive principles of metaphor chearer.The paper also studies the relationships between metaphor and wisdom by analyzing King Solomons metaphors in the Biblical book of "Proverbs",and proves that the wisdom obtained from describing the abstract domains in terms of concrete domains is by nature a kind of metaphorical scheme of thought.As metaphor is so essential in cognitive activities of the world and plays a significant role in the development of human proper moral and intellectual judgment,the paper concludes by making some suggestions for further studies in this area:metaphor and other cultures;the deeper root for metaphorical thinking at the neural level;and advocate,with other metaphor scholars,that we should carry on metaphor studies so as to promote progress of human civilization.