As an important part of ancient cultural resources, image illustrations are of great significance in the literature research, literary research and aesthetic research of the text. In the late Qing Dynasty, the illustration of Detailed Notes on the Pictures in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio·Hengniang adopted the traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting form. Taking the pictures of Hengniang as an example, this paper demonstrates a new way of literary appreciation and criticism that can be developed by combining pictures with texts. The painter draws resources from the traditional and historical texts, uses the artistic elements in the painting. Mean? while, with the help of the literary image and moral metaphor represented by it, the painter constructs the inter? pretation of the novel, the characters and the plot in a picture, makes an impressive visual expansion of the liter? ary image, which greatly expands the space for literary appreciation and criticism.