Cao Shunqing has been working for comparative poetry construction and has become a publicly recognized researcher of comparative poetry. His comparative poetry research experiences the development process from ancient literature study to comparative poetry then to transcultural overall poetry, he not only makes contributions to the research initiation of Chinese ancient comparative poetry, but also his rich academic thoughts on comparative poetry research leave previous academic footprints, binging us with many enlightenments worth emphasizing and issues needing to be further studied.