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In the last few decades, researches on Dong Qichang, the prominent figure in Chinese art history,have been rose continuously, and also achieved quite number of results. This article starts with hislifetime, spreading that how he made choices in his path to art and life surrounded by such adownright complicated social environment in the late Ming Dynasty. Above all of theseencouraged him finding a program, which made the complex stuff in connoisseurship andcollection could be analysed and told.He spent his most time in hometown, so I assumed that his connoisseurships are much moreclosely to his spare time when he is out of court rather than in. He built a luxury mansion in towncontaining exquisite private gardens, which place he used to hold his elegant art activities.Owed to his official post up and down, he got so many friends from different parts and fieldsthroughout his life. It will aim at explaining his understanding of artwork, following the clue of hisfriendships with Chen Jiru, Wu Zhengzhi and the father and son in Yuan’s. The last, he willperform a mature system step by step, and which containing his view of politics, opinion of art,outlook on life.In addition to his own artworks, Dong’s the eminent achievement should be that his connoisseuractivities opened an area of cognition in art history for the later generations. He got the Varitas oflife in his connoisseur events day by day, and gradually established a historical frame of paintingand calligraphy, by which he formed a theory of art ultimately.By studying his connoisseurship and collection, we can find how the formed concepts get formed,also renew our understanding of that who the Dong Qichang was, how was his life going on andwhat about his artwork on earth.