废名的小说有禅味，这是他受禅佛潜移默化影响的结果。禅味主要表现为人物描写的失“真”，主观化的时空模式，文字的充满机趣以及清静空灵的艺术风格。废名小说的禅意有一个产生演化的过程──从玄佛艺术精神到禅宗艺术精神。他进一步倾向“平常心”，作品反而失去了前期小说的飘逸潇洒的神彩。 Fei’s novel has Zen flavor, which is the result of his subtle influence of Zen Buddhism. The main features of Zen Buddhism are the loss of “truth” depicted by the characters, the subjective temporal and spatial patterns, the fullness of characters, and the ethereal artistic style. The Zen of Fei Ming’s novels has a process of evolution ─ ─ from the spirit of Xuanfo art to Zen art. He further tended to “normality,” but his work lost the graceful and graceful colors of the earlier novels.