Comparison Between the Western Cavalier Literature and Chinese Martial Arts Novels

The western cavalier literature is resulted from chivalry which expresses the illusory knight-spirit. Chinese martial arts novels create ordinary people' s spirit idols. As the culture that all human beings share, even different kinds of culture have the same essence. But they are rooted in different cultural soil and there are lots of differences among them. Because of the law of history and literature themselves, between the two different cultures emerged from the fedual society, cavalier literature has disappeared, but martial arts novels are still existing and developing.