Ethereality is an important category of Chinese poetic theory, which comes from Buddhism, first proposed by Tantric, and widely used in the Buddhist Zen which particularly emphasizes on the original nature. Ethereality has three levels in the Buddhism: 1) the holy spirit in the emptiness; 2) the lively and holy spirit in the emptiness; and 3) the appearance of holy spirit in the emptiness. When this concept enters the field of poetics, practically inheriting the implications of Buddhism, so that three poetic meanings have come into being: 1) the holy spirit and the author's subjective spirit in the emptiness; 2) the poetic realm of freely change in the emptiness; and 3) the poetic realm naturally presented in the Vientiane world. The combination with the ethereality originated from Buddhism, poetic ethereality becomes a category which can be explained, analyzed, rationally grasped and used.