Abstract: The ci poem collection of Kuang Zhouyi, a master of ci poetry in the Late Qing Dynasty, has abundant self-annotations. Those self-annotations have diverse contents and various functions, and they also have highly literary and academic value. From them we can see four orientation of Kuang’s poetry first, indicating the rhythm, to make the writers have laws to abide by, to propose the practice of standard words, to observe the order that rules and forms are the lifeline of ci poems; second, not only annotating deserted or unfamiliar knowledge, but also the general poetry and allusions, and trying to popularize ci poems; third, narrating in the form of annotation, to make the emotion have events to rely on, to expand the contents of ci poems to get rid of the disadvantage of short form; forth, annotating own old titles, old sentences and old ci poem collections, even evaluating his own works in self-annotations. These four orientations reflect Kuang Zhouyi’s exploration of the development of ci poetry in the Early Republic of China.

Key words: uang Zhouyi, self-annotations, intertextuality