Chen loves traveling and is keen on landscape prose creation. He has published two collections of landscape prose, Making Friends with Romantic Landscape and Making Friends with Beautiful Landscape. His works are unique and widely praised by readers from the perspective of aesthetic and philosophical interests. Some articles with concentrated income have been broadcast in china national radio. Reading Junshan won the first prize of Junshan Tourism Literature Grand Prix held by Yueyang Evening News and Junshan Scenic Area.
Chen's academic monograph has won more than ten awards at the provincial and ministerial levels.
Chen Yi 1992 won the Bao Zhaolong Scholarship for Studying Abroad, which is the first person for a liberal arts professor to win this scholarship.