Liang Qichao’s typical thought mainly include four aspects: the relationship between literature and life, literary image, the relationship between individual and groups and typification techniques. It developement is divided into two stages with his European travel in 1917 as the boundary. In the early stage (1896-1917), it was based on the national vision of saving the nation from extinction and striving for survival, paying attention to learning from the West and aiming at cultivating new citizens. In the later stage (1918-1928), it reevaluated the value and significance of Chinese cultural tradition and aimed at cultivating artists based on the world vision of civilization comparison. Although the typical thoughts of the two stages have their own different characteristics, contents and emphases, the enlightenment ideal and personality cultivation are always the core elements, and the development context has internal continuity, showing the evolution characteristics of “change rather than change”, which jointly laid the ideological basis of Chinese typical theory in the 20th century.