Abstract: This research expounds the development and evolution process of famous mountain resort and its landscape and their inherent laws in China. The evolution of famous mountain resort is a process reflecting the ancient people’s understanding and appreciation of nature, their self-recognition and pursuit of freedom. It explores the internal motivations of famous mountain resort from multiple perspectives and the height of history. The famous mountain resort have experienced the evolution process from “holy landscape”, “gentleman’s landscape”, “religious landscape”, “poetic landscape” to “scenery landscape”, to create the current Chinese scenic area system.