Abstract: In 1950s, Prof. Qian Gu-rong put forward the doctrine that “literature is a study of human beings”; in 1980s, with his deeper understanding of the charm of literature, he claimed that “literary creating is thinking with sentiment”. The reason why literature remains flourishing in human beings’ life is that it experiences, witnesses and preserves the sentiment of human beings in history in a specific and vivid way, revealing the most subtle, most thrilling and deepest pulsation of humanity. Therefore, sentiment is not only the unique connotation of cultural psychology in literary creation, but also should be the fundamental subject in literature theories.