Since the 1990s,the spatial narrative of Chinese rural cinema has generally presented a fresh,beautiful,and romantic aesthetic style.Its poetic imagination and the creation of hometown mythology are based on the foundation of agricultural civilisation and are imagined entities constructed in contrast to urban experiences.Nostalgia and homesickness are the emotional structures of the construction of a rural utopia.Natural scenery,folk customs,and moral ethics are important ingredients for the poetic imagination of rural cinema,making the countryside an ideal home for poetic dwelling,and forming a unique poetic spatial aesthetics in Chinese cinema,imbued with national aesthetic characteristics.