Abstract: 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.

Key words: Shen Congwen, Xiangxi (the west of Hunan province), cultural features, cultural endowment