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During the period from 1368 when Ming Dynasty was founded to 1637 when Korea yielded obedience to QING Dynasty and ended the suzerain-vassal relationship with Ming Dynasty, Korean envoys left us a large number of travel notes about China, and these notes are called "works of travel accounts to Ming Dynasty". The travel notes are characterized by having a large span in period, diversified type of literature, different authors and being outspoken. Based on the research of many "records of pilgrimage to Ming Dynasty" by Korea from 14-17 century, the external and internal images and special features of Korea at the time, by adopting the method of comparative literature, the present article mainly analyzes the cultural factors of Chinese terrain like the landscape, place of historical interest, frontier pass, inner and outer city walls, palaces, and different classes of Chinese people in the eyes of Korea envoys and then depicts the image of China in Korean envoys' eyes and their complex feelings toward China. From 14th to 17th century, their collective imagination about China is that Ming Dynasty is powerful in politics and military and prosperous in economy. The Image of China, in the eyes of Korea, undergoes the process of being prosperous to decadent, and the process involves four stages, crazy Utopia, imagination interweaved with reality, the wane of Celestial Empire and the elegy for the Ming Dynasty. The criticism by Korean envoys about the fact that people in Ming Dynasty held Buddhism and Taoism in high esteem, neglected their rules and regulations shows that during the middle and later periods of Ming Dynasty Korea began to observe and appraise China using the eyes of Confucianist. In another sense, it shows that the neo-Confucianism fully penetrated into Korea indicating positive factors . appear in the ideological circle and at the same time the neo-Confucianism was on wane. "Record of pilgrimage to Ming Dynasty" is highly regarded for its historical, ideological and cultural values and holds a privileged position in the China- Korea history of literature.As a record to enrich other culture, the "works of travel accounts to Ming Dynasty" have great paradigmatic significance in comparative literature. On the plane of comparative literature, choosing "records of pilgrimage to Ming Dynasty" as the subject to be studied may widen the field of academic research. At the same time, to explore the image of China can make us understand not only some features of the China-Korea relationship existing thousands of years, but also the complex feelings of Korean people towards ancient China by analyzing and researching their inner feelings of the Korean people and their flickering self-image about Korea. This article aims to analyze how Korean envoys developed their image about China during the 14th -17th century, outlined the changing process under the influence of the Korea. At present, the central issue of Chinese and Korean academy mainly focuses on the "works of travel account to Beijing". Systematic arrangement and outline about the shaping process of ancient China's image by the Korean people in Ming Dynasty is of great importance, with the help of existing researches of "works of travel accounts to Beijing" by scholars in Qing Dynasty. Currently scholars at home and abroad are still not carrying out comprehensive research on the "records of pilgrimage to Ming Dynasty", and this is where the novelty this article has.