The Qinhuai landscape has been abundant with political and cultural symbols since the Six Dynasties. The literati used Qinhuai to express their nostalgia for their fallen dynasty. In early Qing dynasty, the loyalists expressed their political identity to the Ming dynasty through depiction of Qinhuai. Wang Shih-Zhen, a young official who identified himself with the Qing dynasty, adopted Qinhuai as a theme of his poems and boldly composed "Qinhuai poems" during the anti-Qing period. In this way, he softened Ming loyalists' nostalgic feelings toward the Ming dynasty. This composition can be seen as a successful attempt to acculturate himself to the circles of the Ming Loyalists after the "Autumn Willows." Taking an approach from the perspective of landscape construction, this article aims to explore how Wang Shih- Zhen and the Loyalists claimed their own political and cultural identities through formulation, appropriation, and transformation of the symbolic historical memory of Qinhuai. It also unravels the intentions, the methods, and the backgrounds of their poem compositions