Love is an eternal theme of world literature.Both the ancient and the modern literature tend to take marriage and love as their paramount theme;however,there is rarely any research sorting out these themes from the perspective of cultural difference.Being engaged in exploring the love literature,this paper intends to make a comparison with Chinese and western perspectives of love and analyzes the embodied culture essences and differences from the comparative researches on their literary status,attitudes towards love,and the choice of themes. Love is an eternal theme of world literature.Both the ancient and the modern literature tend to take marriage and love as their paramount theme; however, there is rarely any research sorting out these themes from the perspective of cultural difference.Being engaged in exploring the love literature, this paper intends to make a comparison with Chinese and western perspectives of love and analyzes the learned culture essences and differences from the comparative researches on their literary status, attitudes towards love, and the choice of themes.