Shen Congwen and His Xiangxi World——The Unique Features of Shen Congwen's Literary Works in the View of Comparative Literature

Lively and completely,Shen Congwen created a mysterious,romantic and susceptible world of Xiangxi(the west of Hunan province) for the first time,thus opened a new window for Chinese literature.The culture in Xiangxi and Shen's cultural endowment is a mixture of diversified cultural factors,mainly in the form of Chu(old name for Hunan) witchcraft.The reason why his works are less comprehensible and lack common points with those of the successors of his time is that he thinks and seeks the unique way of life in his native place with a modern aesthetic view.