The invention relates to a soft cloth subsealing type shallow water undisturbed surface sediment sampler comprising a sampling sleeve, a sampling mechanism and a sampling liner. The soft cloth subsealing type shallow water undisturbed surface sediment sampler is characterized in that the sampling sleeve comprises a sampling drill bit, a sampling cylinder, an outer counterweight deckle board, an upper cover plate and a hard connecting rod; the sampling mechanism comprises a lifting rope, a lifting rod, a lifting rod fixing frame, a side face connecting shaft, a side face connecting shaft baffle, a cable wire, a pulley, a slide rail of side face connecting shaft, a bottom connecting shaft, soft waterproof subsealing cloth, a spring bolt and a fixing mechanism of soft waterproof subsealing cloth; and the sampling liner comprises a sampling liner outline border, a sampling liner soleplate and a sampling liner soleplate inserting mechanism. The soft cloth subsealing type shallow water undisturbed surface sediment sampler disclosed by the invention has the advantages of large sampling area, high sampling success rate, non-damage on physical structure and sequence structure of surface sediment, and the like, and the sampler is capable of meeting collecting demand of shallow water surface sediments and is particularly suitable for collecting surface sediment samples within 3m water depth.