The creation and evolution of Chinese characters have not been divorced from the habit of creating Chinese characters by observing natural images. Chinese literates' stable and distinct way of thinking of observing natural images has been formed. It is the way of thinking that has far-reaching impact on literary and artistic creation, especially on the mind-matter theory. The mind-matter theory in literary and artistic creation not only pays attention to literates' psychological reaction by observing the matters in nature, but also to the literary and artistic creation on the basis of literates' understanding of matters in nature, which is in line with the thinking mode of the creation of Chinese characters. However, the mind-matter theory in literary and artistic creation has witnessed much more complicated changes and evolutions, compared with the creation of Chinese characters. Although the "images" in the mind-matter theory remain their vividness and concreteness in literary and artistic creation, they do not try to reflect the original representation of concrete matters in reality. On the contrary, they go beyond in emotionalization and aestheticization.