The “post80s” generation have special cultural memories and experiences belonging to their era.Childhood images are a unique cultural symbol for the “post80s” group, carrying the unique cultural memory of the lost childhood.The nostalgic memory of “post80s” is no longer a single expression of individual emotion, but a cultural phenomenon of collective memory.Their selfidentity realized through collective cultural memory is mainly reflected in two aspects: one is the construction of selfidentity; the second is the construction of intergenerational group identity.The construction of identity of “post80s” group image nostalgia has a deeper discourse metaphor, which is the metaphorical representation of fractured discourse in the construction of generational identity, as well as the metaphorical representation of reflective aesthetic salvation discourse in the construction of identity.

“post80s”; animation; nostalgia writing; cultural memory; identity discourse