Shen Hanguang, the leader of the Heshuo School of Poetry in the early Qing Dynasty, became a civilian of the Qing Dynasty as a layperson, and ended his life as a Confucian scholar. In this sense, he is a Ming loyalist undoubtedly.When the Hong-guang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was established, he took risks to travel south, hoping to restore the former Ming Dynasty. From the time he returned from Jiangnan region to his hometown until the 9th year of the Shunzhi reign, Shen Hanguang regarded himself as a Ming loyalist and refused to have any official relations with the Qing court. After 10th years of Shunzhi, he deliberately downplayed the identity of the survivors, highlighting the identity of hermits; meanwhile, his attitudes to the Qing Dynasty changed gradually from rejection to acceptance. Such a change can be attributed to his clear insight into the situations of his times as well as some changes in his family circumstances. In line with his identity shift from being a Ming loyalist to a hermit, Shen Hanguang’s cultural choice also changed from "being prominent in the literary world in youth" to "turning to the study of Confucian classics in old age". After the 13th year of Shunzhi reign, the emotional focus expressed in Shen Hanguang’s poems gradually shifted from grief and indignation to lamentation for people’ hardships and sufferings caused by the war and the hope for peace and tranquility. In his later years, he wrote Whispers in Jingyuan Garden and Analects in Jingyuan Garden, both of which focused on daily ethics and life wisdom rather than empty talk.