沈从文在《湘行散记》中，通过大量声音意象和视觉意象的书写，表达了自己的现实感受和理想追求。这些意象组成了一个宁静、忧郁而又顽强存在着的湘西世界，突出了湘西民族特有的哀伤、柔和与固执、坚韧的生命情调，以及作者在面对巨大今昔变化时的惆怅、感怀与希冀。文中意象的选择来自作者孤独的行旅和湘西民众的日常生活，表现了作者对故乡现实的人文关怀和湘西人在苦难和无奈中对生活的爱、寻找生机的生命意志，是沈从文作品“美在生命”的美学特质的代表。对文中意象进行分析探究，可以看到作者蕴含其中的复杂感情，理解作品当中作者“无言的哀戚”，感受到作者对于湘西朴素的原始生命力的赞颂和对可使湘西民族在现代社会中振奋、进步的精神价值的追求。

Shen Congwen expressed his realistic feelings and ideal pursuit through writing a large number of sound images and visual images in Recollections of West Hunan. These images constitute a quiet, melancholy and tenacious Xiangxi world, highlighting the unique sad, soft and stubborn life sentiment of Xiangxi nation, as well as the author's melancholy, feeling and hope in the face of great changes. The choice of images in this paper comes from the author's lonely travel and the daily life of Xiangxi people, which reflects the author's humanistic care for the reality of hometown and the Xiangxi people's love for life and life will to find vitality in suffering and helplessness. It is the representative of the aesthetic characteristics of "Beauty in life" in Shen Congwen's works. Through the analysis and exploration of the images in the text, we can see the complex feelings contained in the author, understand the author's wordless grief in the works, and feel the author's praise for the simple primitive vitality of Xiangxi and the pursuit of spiritual values that can make Xiangxi nation excited and advanced in modern society.