In this paper, I would like to explore the relationships between the Xikuen School (本崑體) and Li Shang-yin (李商隱) and to re-evaluate its historical meaning. The Xikuen Style, for a long time, has been regarded as a lousy imitation of Li Shang-yin's poetry, which is gorgeous in. form while shallow in content, and therefore it has earned more negative than positive criticism. Since ever, critics have degraded its meaning in Chinese literary history. I will reconsider this topic from a new perspective, German critic Hans Robert Jauss' Reception Aesthetics, and put the formation of Xikuen Style under the context of the receptive history of Li Shang-yin's works. By this way, I will explain by what approaches and how the responses the Xikuen School received Li's poetry legacy, and further to analyze the meaning of such approaches and responses during the early Sung period. At the end, I want to re-evaluate the historical meaning of the Xikuen School.