"Ciqi" is an important theory category in the history of Chinese Ci-ology criticism,and its development has four periods: germination: from "Qi" to "Ciqi" in Ci-ology criticism;promotion: Ci-ology criticism works and critics emerging;deepening period: Xie Zhangting of Late Qing Dynasty forming "Ciqi" theory;and sublimation: the theory further consummating,finally in Wang Guowei's Theory of Ci-ology Ideal State obtaining sublimation...