Abstract: The identity of culture memory has become a global issue in the transition of urban modernization, saving and activating the rural areas that are rich with collective memories and strong emotional attachments to ordinary people but normally not registered in the protection list of cultural relics, is badly in need of attention and research from the current landscape designers and researchers. Taking the landscape design project of Datang Wetland neighboring of a countryside living area in Guiyang City of Guizhou Province as an example, and combining literature research with field investigation and practice, this paper summarized the design ideas and methods emphasizing the inheritance of rural culture memory, i. e. , a loop of from remembering to exploring to looking for to realizing and lastly back to remembering, owing a certain reference significance for the protection and inheritance of rural culture memory.