Qi Ji (863-937), the dharma-heir of the dhyana master Hui Ji of Wei-Yang Buddhism Sect on Yang Mountain, enjoyed a high reputation in the history of Chinese poetry. He was a prolific poet and called as "a bag full of poems" by his contemporaries. There were over 800 poems written by him existed, so were a ten-volume anthology of poems White Lotus and a work on rules of poetry Feng Sao Zhi Ge. During his lifetime, Qi Ji traveled a lot and made friends with many literati. The study of his life will help with a further exploration of how his poetic style was shaped and interactions between poet-monks and literati during that period. As a text-based study, this paper chronologically explored his life and travels in detail and particularly clarified some unsettled facts about him.