Abstract:Chinese metrical poetry is based on the completion of a series of basic requirements.When we are to translate a poem into English,it is hard for us to care about all details of meaning and form.There must be a trade-off problem.So we need to discover and study some specific strategies of translating Chinese metrical poetry whether on the form like poetic metre,sound,rhyme and reading method or on the content like antithesis rhetoric,using of allusions,cultural customs.Thus,the discussion of the strategies of translating Chinese metrical poetry is actually a research on the common points of Chinese and English poetry,and also a way of research on equivalent translation as well.