Over the past two decades, researches on comparative Chinese-Western poetics have been carried out with two different approaches,one being classical vs. modern,and the other,Chinese vs. Western. In the process, various difficulties and puzzles in theory and practice have been encountered, such as how to look upon traditions, argu-ment regarding the original meanings,the genesis and interpretative modes of meanings, the circular explanation in the dialog between Chinese and Western poetics,the principle of the dialog,and the theo-retical basis for methodology, etc. Failure to solve such problems means impediment for further exploration in this realm. Hence the fo-cal point here is how to transform the hermeneutics of Chinese poet-ics from its classical form into modern form. In this respect, the ideas, methods and principles of modern Western hermeneutics can provide us with some inspiration.