Abstract：Abstract: What is the essence of Su Shi’s "Composing Ci with the method of Poem"? Most scholars’ explanations of it focus more on subject and content of Ci, but less on tonal pattern or rhyming in twentieth-century. They just raise issues, such as “Sometimes do not follow the rhythm”, but left no specific and convincing cases. Thus there are some blind spots in this region. This paper would reach the said proposition’s name rectification by discriminating both Poem and Ci’s content, form and other related qualities. More precisely speaking, to change Niu (拗) to Shun (顺), or composing Ci with the method of Poem, which is the substance of Su Shi’s viewpoint. Furthermore, to evaluate Su Shi’s viewpoint about this topic is mainly to summarize lyrics’ development, which is one type of the poetry and song. The so-called “Showing the way up” is of Su Shi’s initiative insight as well as an important result of "Composing Ci with the method of Poem".
