As the natural base for urban growth and the fulcrum of dynamic evolution, the unique river and gorges in the Three Gorges area has built a landscape city with unique regional characteristics together with the city. In order to enrich the research content of urban construction in the Three Gorges area, the ancient city of Fengjie and the landscape environment during the Qin to Ming and Qing Dynasties were used as the research objects, and historical data such as maps and books as the basis, and the development and evolution of Fengjie city as clues to explore the changes in site selection, urban structure, landscape construction and corresponding characteristics under the influence of landscape, from which the functional transformation of landscape and the corresponding “mountain-water-city” model, and analyze the landscape wisdom of Fengjie city construction, with a view to urban construction in the Three Gorges area provide historical experience of harmony and co-prosperity between man and nature.