在中国现代文学史上,沈从文的创作对生存经验的复杂观照和对审美体验的丰富传达,使文本具有一种新旧杂陈的繁复的美感内涵,建立起审美主义的多重视野。沈从文的湘西风情小说,民族性与现代性合二为一,其现代性借民族性来实现,民族性在现代性中获得存在的理由。他的存在意义在于,对中国的现代性选择而言,是一种丰富和补充。 In the history of Chinese modern literature, Shen Congwen ’s complex view of living experience and its rich communication of aesthetic experience make the text have a complex aesthetic connotation of old and new, and establish a multi - field of aestheticism. Shen Congwen’s Xiangxi style novels, nationality and modernity are combined into one, their modernity is realized by nationality, nationality obtains the reason of existence in modernity. His existential significance is that it is a rich and complementary element to China’s choice of modernity.