According to the Jiangxi school of poets, Huang Shan-gu composed his poetry by 'casting' and 'remoulding'. The precise meaning of these two terms were however not clearly explained. Illustrations quoted were either confusing or strained, and anyhow incapable of demonstrating how they could be defined as composition methods for poetry. In his letter to Hong Jufu, the poet had once talked about the vitalization of an ordinary piece of work. However, he had not sought to formulate any methodology for poetry composition, making therefore the adoration of his admirers somewhat unfounded. Contemporary discussions on the "adaptive creation" found in the works of the poet only intend to highlight his way of adapting compositions by predecessors. Simply put, this "method" consists in deriving new, refreshed horizon from concepts depicted in the predecessors' poetry, so as to induce further thoughts by the readers. This paper aims at identifying the way Huang Shan-gu composed his poetry, and how his works should be appreciated. It however makes no attempt to discuss the types, meaning, value and effect of his adaptive creation method.