《七色魇》是沈从文在云南时期的作品。“魇”系列散文中同样体现了出对城市人的讽刺和对乡下人的热爱。都市的恶俗使沈从文的乡土情结更为浓郁。抗日战争的特殊时期是沈从文对文学与自身痛苦思索的时期。他对“乡土”思考提高到哲学的高度。沈从文用对故乡湘西的信仰,通过文字不断的反抗、挣扎,来维护他心目中的那片乡土,唤醒人类最单纯最原始的感触。 “Seven color nightmare” is Shen Congwen works in Yunnan. “Nightmare ” series of essays also reflect the irony of urban people and love of the country people. Urban vulgarities make Shen Congwen native complex more rich. The special period of Anti-Japanese War is Shen Congwen’s literature and his painful period of thinking. He raised his “native ” thinking to the height of philosophy. Shen Congwen used his hometown Xiangxi belief and struggled constantly through words to maintain the native land and awaken the simplest and most primitive feelings of mankind.