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Current scholars mostly ranged Shen Congwen and Wang Cengqi as the same genre according to the style of their works, There's no doubt that they were the teacher and the student, and there's some likeness on their works. But they were two men after all, there're must be some differences between their aesthetic sense, background and life ideal. This present paper wants to research the same theme of their works, to find the different styles showed by these themes, and analyze the reason causing the difference. At the end we'll find that the two writers who seemed to be in a genre actually had their own style from the following three perspectives.Firstly, staring from the same theme of the two writers' works, love and beauty. In Shen Congwen's works, neither love nor beauty would be long, they are doomed to be withered away. Man can not escape from the trick controlled by the fate. All the beautiful things will be changed into sorrow and grief. But in Wang Cengqi's works, love and beauty are really exited in people's live everyday, just as work and traditional rite, fulfilling with love and beauty, bringing hope and warmth for people. How great the difference between ice and fire!Secondly, discussing the difference from the theme of humanity. Shen Congwen attended to reconstruct a natural and healthy humanity depending on the seeking after the naturally original and the abstractly holy humanity. Wang Cengqi turned down the metaphysic thinking, insisting in his tenet of kindness. He constructed a kind of realistically harmonious humanity. Discussing on the depth of humanity, Shen Congwen reached the sharply profound one, and Wang Cengqi got the smoothly superficial one.Thirdly, analyzing the reason which caused the difference from the writers' culture psychology. The personality character inheriting from the Old Chu culture such as loneliness and grief twisted his special experience, which made Shen Congwen feel the world as a wandering tar. He researched the meaning of life, arrived at the headstream of the value, and faced the inescapable doom of life bravely. Wang Cengqi was deeply impressed by the traditions of scholar-bureaucrat in Jiangnan. He gave up the discussion on life and value. Like a smart quiet joky scholar-bureaucrat, he unearthed the goodness and harmony in ordinary live, made a sweet dream to mend the imperfection in realistic world and purify people's souls.