As a Chinese Buddhist sect, Zen has absorbed and demonstrated the traditional Chinese aesthetic concept, craftsman spirit and creation mechanism in the process of its formation and development. The center of Zen's "impermanence" thought is that everything in the world is non-constant. It is the view and concept of "death", which has a strong Zen meaning. This article starts from the current enlightenment of Zen's "impermanence" thought, the lack of great achievements, and the transcendence of life, and combines the examples of traditional Chinese creation to explain its influence and inheritance on traditional Chinese creation.