Abstract: Ideal personality is an important issue for the interpretation of Zhang Zhidong, a historical figure in The Times of great changes, and it is a more reliable way to trace his ideal personality by virtue of zhang Zhidong's poems expressing his true nature and embrace. Zhang zhidong's poetry expression of thinking are adopted from the arms, with admiration of TaoKan, du fu and su dongpo sages, there are also praise for Hu Linyi, Peng Yulin talent for this, these poems are complementary and mutual blend, construct his loyalty and love of Confucian, taking dangerous metacentric hero, broad-mindedness wise men in one of the ideal personality of paradigm.