In-depth understanding is the key to the question of how to translate a thoughtful text. Almost all translation theories fail to provide solutions to the fundamental problems in the thoughtful text translation. Hermeneutics offers a possible approach. Creative Hermeneutics and its five dialectical steps developed by Wei-Hsun Fu demonstrate the merits of Chinese and western philosophies and hence have important theoretical and practical values. The introduction and verification of the methodology may solve the special problems that the thoughtful text confronts, and yet it also raises more pressing theoretical issues.