The theory of reader acceptance holds that the history of literature should be the history of relations between writers, works and readers, the history of literary acceptance by readers, and the process of reproduction of works, as well as the understanding of texts by readers in successive dynasties and the history of reaction and evaluation. This paper investigates and compares the reception characteristics of Chinese poetics and Yi poetics, which involve the situation of the subject, the field (environment), the process and the mode of reception (communication) of Chinese poetics and Yi language poetics.