“诗余”是古代词论中出现率极高的范畴。作为对词的称谓,它包含着对词这种文学体裁的产生过程的认识,凝聚着古代词学家对词体价值地位的思考,也成为词体不断新变、从艳俗走向雅正的理论依据。“词为诗余”的观念显示出中国古代词学思想与诗学思想的相融性。 “Poetry and Yu” is a category with the highest occurrence rate in ancient Ci theory. As an appellation of words, it contains the cognition of the generation process of the literary genre such as Ci, the reflection of ancient Ci-poetryists on the status of Ci¡¯s poetry, and the theory of ceaselessly changing Ci¡¯s style and changing from elegant to refined in accordance with. The idea that “poetry is poetry” shows the blending of ancient Chinese Ci-poetry and poetics.