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Asian Social Science; Vol. 11, No. 26; 2015 ISSN 1911-2017 E-ISSN 1911-2025 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education On the Source of Ci-Priority Ideology of Wang Guowei’s Ci-Study and Ci-Creating 1 1 Wu Yana He Zongmei 1 The college of arts, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Correspondence: Wu Yana, The college of arts, Southwest University, No.2.Tiansheng Road, Beibei County, Chongqing, China. Tel: 86-138-9622-4467. E-mail: wuyana1985@163.com Received: August 7, 2015 Accepted: August 24, 2015 Online Published: September 21, 2015 doi:10.5539/ass.v11n26p178 URL: /10.5539/ass.v11n26p178 Abstract Wang Guowei was an important Ci researcher in the Ci-study field from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Minguo era who had developed the distinctive Ci-priority ideology. The Ci-priority ideology derived from 1) Wang Guowei’s Ci-liking which had come from his individual character based on his melancholy and suffering experiences, 2) Wang Guowei’s pure literature ideology which had surpassed fames and wealth, 3) Wang Guowei’s sticking to and rejuvenating the traditional culture because of his thought and feelings that adherents of a former dynasty should behave with honor and dignity. Wang Guowei’s Ci-priority ideology had introduce the West aesthetic theory of literature and art, and constructed the multi-angles and all-round system of