The anthropological ethnographic writing has gone through three paradigms of random writing, scientific ethnography and experimental ethnography. This paper analyzes the driving force behind the transfer of ethnographic writing paradigm in the history of anthropology, the advantages and shortcomings of the three paradigms mentioned above, and question the feasibility of putting the academic idea of the experimental ethnography into practice. Finally, it points out that the trend of anthropological ethnographic writing has returned to the paradigm of scientific ethnography after the hurly of academic idea of the experimental ethnography.