Abstract: As a Chinese film author popular in the global films circle, the documentary style of Jia Zhangke’s film and his attitude towards the nobody has long been the consensus of academic research at home and abroad. Under the consensus of the spirit of the new realism, we seem to ignore the way Jia Zhangke expresses the oriental aesthetics in his films as a Chinese film author. When we extract the imagery of Chinese classical aesthetics scattered in JiaZhangke’s film and put it in the spacetime context of the great changes of contemporary China, the discontinuit ynarrative of “thing” and “I” gradually emerges in front of us. Key words：

Key words: discontinuity narrative, Jia Zhangke’s film, desymbolization, oriental imagery；oriental aesthetic