In 548 AD, Jiankang City 建康城 was destroyed in the Hou Jing Rebellion 侯景之亂. Thousands of people lost their homes and became refugees. This destruction caused trauma o the writers of the Southern Dynasties 南朝. In my opinion, the representation of what is “Real” in history is re-created through the memory of each writer. Therefore, how a writer describes the facts is important to us. In this paper, I study, from the point of view of trauma writing and the aesthetics of narrative, the odes of three survivors: Shen Jiong’s Return of the Spirits 歸魂賦, Yu Sin’s Sad Thoughts of Jiangnan 哀江南賦, and Yan Zhi-tui’s Contemplating My Life 觀我生賦.According to the theory of trauma and the aesthetics of narrative, the three authors observed the disaster in different ways. Through a discussion of rhetoric, allusions,imagery, and intertextuality, I re-examine the traumatic experiences in the three works and add to the study of odes from the Liang-Chen 梁陳 Dynasties.