Abstract:Old photos serve as media to retain real images and reproduce social reality and historical and cultural information. Discussing the precious historical information contained in old revolutionary photos and restoring historical scenes can help review historical events, freeze the space-time memory, and show the true course of the revolutionary spirit and hard struggle of Chinese Communists. Through documentary combing and image narration on historical scenes embodied in old revolutionary photos and historical facts expressed in red revolutionary images, the physical and spatial forms can be effectively depicted, as well as the revolutionary scenes of momentous years and glorious suffering, and the traces of the times of the revolutionary pioneers' courageous march. The image narration in the old revolutionary photos is not only the recorder and narrator of the real events, but also makes up for the shortcomings of the multiple meanings of words, the language ambiguity of the event expressions and the originality distortion of the scenes through the representations of image symbols, with imaginative and visual images. Ultimately, the revolutionary consciousness and the spiritual picture it contains are visually transmitted to the viewers, making them become the interpreter of image semantics in the new era, the communicator of the revolutionary spirit and the constructor of the aesthetic picture.