Based on 614 core documents about rural landscape in CNKI database from 1992 to 2019, through CiteSpace, the knowledge map of rural landscape is drawn to analyze the development status and trend of rural landscape research. The results show that: (1) the concentration of scholars in rural landscape research is relatively high, and the cooperative research among scholars is characterized by "small concentration and large dispersion"; (2) the strength of rural landscape research institutions is clear, and the advantages of Agricultural University of China, Beijing Forestry University and Nanjing Forestry University are obvious, and the development trend of near regional cooperation is formed; (3) through cluster analysis, it can be found that rural landscape research is characterized by "small concentration, large dispersion" It mainly focuses on the key fields such as "local landscape" "new rural construction" "landscape pattern" "rural tourism" and "landscape evaluation"; (4) the hot changes of rural landscape research are closely related to the introduction of national policies; (5) the research on rural landscape in terms of theoretical system, technical methods and development policies is relatively weak, which is worthy of future concern the research direction of note.