Liang Shiqiu had embraced New Humanism since returning from the United Sates in mid 1920s, developing a conservative attitude towards literature and advocating emotional restraint. He opposed superfluous emotional expression in literature while extolling literary works representing a balance in reason and emotion. On the contrary, poems and literary reviews written by Liang during his time in Tsinghua School have noticeable romantic aspects. He gave full vent to his emotions, including his attraction to women, in many poems, and criticized the lack of sentimental values in Kang Baiqing’s Cao Er and Bing Xin’s The Stars and Spring Water. Romantic characteristics in Liang’s early works are attributed to the cultural background during the New Culture Movement, the academic atmosphere at Tsinghua, which took on an American teaching style, and his unrestricted activity in the literature club at Tsinghua. He was also heavily influenced by Liang Qichao, Wen Yiduo, and other writers in The Creation Society who strived to break from the vestiges of feudal system and dreamed of a brighter future. Liang Shiqiu’s romanticism can thus be seen as an inevitable result brought by the contemporary society, and his transformation to a New Humanist can be regarded as the evolution of his romanticism to another form.