Abstract: Abstract：The discourse of Chinese classical poetics is mainly constructed around the axis of poetry creation and appreciation, while the questions concerning the origins of poetry, such as what is poetry and where poetry originates, are basically not directly dealt with. This feature does not indicate that ancient poetic theorists lack ontological consciousness, but that the ontology of Chinese poetry has always been closely related to“Tao” or“Qi”in philosophy. Therefore, in describing this aspect, most of them can only follow the principles that “great music has the faintest notes”and“great form is beyond shape”. This means that the understanding and interpreting classical poetic discourse should not focus on the surface of words, but penetrate into its deep
philosophical structure. Based on this understanding, the present paper attempts to decompose and restore the formation of classical poetic discourse during its foundation period from the perspective of theoretical narration, and therefore, to explain that classical poetic discourse is a suspended ontology from its beginning, or a special structural system that is consciously expressed through emptying logic source. 

Key words: poetic discourse, suspension, mind noumenon, Qi (Tao) noumenon, narrative principle