Abstract: As a new academic subject, Chinese indigenous psychology blending of Chinese culture and traditional psychology focuses on the study of Chinese psychology and behavioral traits. Ha Jin, a Chinese American writer with many famous American awards, built a typical Chinese traditional figure in his novel Waiting which attracted people’s eyeballs successfully. Of the Chinese indigenous psychology theory, this paper tries to analyze the character Lin Kong and the cause of his long-term divorce with his wife Shu Yu from the aspects of doctrine of piety, the concept of marriage and the concept of face