Abstract: Shen Congwen left his hometown,where his native tongue was spoken,at a very young age.In the more than 60 years afterwards,he stuck to his native tongue.He made full use of his native tongue in his creation,and illustrated unique language phenomenon in constructing his “Xiangxi World”.This is his special contribution to modern Chinese literature.

Key words: Shen Congwen, Xiangxi dialect, language form, language essence, language image