Abstract: Realizing a creative combination of Heidegger’s existentialism and Chinese literature would be significant for the contemporary theoretical study of Chinese literature. We can start from the fact that Heidegger considered the existential circumstance of humans as possible beings on the one hand and that Confucianism has dominated Chinese literature on the other. A literature based on the ontology of emotion can play a positive role in overcoming and filling in “the abyss of being.” However, compared to existentialism’s reliance on the framework of two worlds, the ontology of emotion embraces one world and naturally leads to a static appreciation of and narcissistic atmosphere in literature.