Sentimental Reality And Purely Poetic Sublimation

In contemporary Chinese literature, Chi Zijian is outstanding for her pure feeling an d local standpoint. She has created many stories of local people in sentimental style, and shown us the beautiful scenery in northeast as well as the tough,tensile spirit of the people there. In her recent stories, we can feel more sympathy for the bitter life and more ideal thinking about the reality. So, she is both pure and com plex in her stories. Her emotional imagination and deep insight into the bitter life has made her sentimental style.The paper also stresses how her sentimental style has come from her poetic insight i nto the tragic reality, and how her sentimental feeling is mixed with a pity which leads to a religional concern. Her aesthetic philosophy is "show concern for reality and surpass it i nto a pure, poetic world".The paper explains Chi Zijian's aesthetic philosophy from three sides: its intension, its way of thinking and its cultural source. It reveals that "showing concern for the reality and surpassing it into a pure,poetic world" is the intension, "searching for the spiritual land in a mysterious way" is the way of thinking, and the regional culture as well as its art tradition is the cultural source.