The early experience of Zhang Xueliang gone ups and downs, his thought had great change following the complex international and domestic situation. Zhang Xueliang’s perspective of Red Army changed from hostility to sympathy, his cognition of communism changed from rejection to acceptation, his attitude to the united front policy of CPC changed from precaution to acceptation, and his dominant ideas changed from “Communist Suppression” to antiJapanese.These transformations were important impellent factors which led him to launch the Xi’an Incident ultimately， which exerted deep influences on Chinese revolutionary trend and social change.

Zhang Xueliang; Chinese Communist Party; the Red Army; cooperation with the Communist Party and antiJapanese; the Xi’an Incident