Born in 1912 in West Street, Guanghan County. When he was studying at Guanghan Middle School, he loved poetry. In 1932, he was admitted to the Confucius Institute of the University of China and France in Beijing. He established a poetry club with his classmates Zhu Yan and others, studied the works of French romantic poet Hugo and others, and jointly published a collection of poems "Silhouette Collection".
In 1934, Qin participated in a reading club organized by Communist Party members Xia Qifeng and Jiang Daizi and began to read the works of Gorky and others. In 1935, he went to Japan to study at Chuo University and joined the Chinese Poetry Authors Association.
After the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, he returned to China and devoted himself to anti-Japanese propaganda activities. He successively edited "Sweeping Briefing", "Frontline Daily" supplement, and "New Era" weekly magazine, founded "Oriental Weekly", "Pacific Daily News", etc., and created and published poetry collections such as "Flag of Freedom" and "After the Yong'an Disaster" to promote the anti-Japanese war. . After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Qin joined the China Democratic League in Shanghai and co-founded the weekly "Modern News" with Cai Lixing, the leader of the Shanghai democratic movement.
In 1947, Qin Zihao went to Taiwan. He has successively served as a commissioner of the Taiwan Provincial Materials Regulation Committee, a supervisor of the Grain Bureau, a professor of the literary correspondence school, and the deputy director of the Literary and Art Creation Committee. He was also elected as a director of the Youth Writing Association and director of the poetry research committee of the association.
In 1951, he edited "New Poetry Weekly". Later, he founded the Blue Star Poetry Society with Zhong Dingwen and others, and compiled and published the poetry magazine "Blue Star". He has successively created, translated and published poetry collections and poetry theories such as "Ocean Poems", "The Existence of Bottles", "On Modern Poetry" and "Collection of French Poems". His poems have had a great influence on modern poetry in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. He is known as one of the "Three Elders of Poetry" in Taiwan, as famous as Ji Xian and Zhong Dingwen.
On October 10, 1963, Qin Zihao died of illness, and the Taiwanese literary and art circles published "The Complete Works of Qin Zihao" for him.