Abstract: The Border Town is full of Chinese elements of landscape paintings.The rich beauty of connotation makes the referential meaning more significant than the narration of words,leaving far more individual and wider space for the readers to comprehend.The style and spirit of the novel are mutually pre-conditioned,its representation being its meaning.Comprehending the novel from the aesthetic perspective of traditional Chinese literati may help Chinese novel catch up with the Western idea to exhibit philosophical points through novel,and inspect aesthetics of Chinese literati,and even run neck and neck with modernism and post-modernism,contributing more to literature criticism of novels.

Key words: The Border Town, aesthetics of Chinese literati, Shen Congwen