Based on the thesis Transplanting the Seed written by Susan Bassnett,this article makes a brief mention of the controversy of untranslatability and translatability in translation of ancient Chinese poetry into English.

Though the history of translation of classical Chinese poems is not very long, the development of classical Chinese poems meets many challenges.

From the angles of diction, phrasing, and syntax, the paper makes a detailed classification and explanation of the language characteristics of the English translation of ancient Chinese poems by professor Xu Yuan-chong.

XU Yuan-chong has realized the goal of "three beauties" (semantic beauty, tonal beauty & formal beauty) set by himself in his English translation of ancient Chinese poems, but his unique and sophisticated translation techniques surpass his own methods of three "-ilizations"(generalization, equalization & specialization).