Abstract: Rural landscape bears "homesickness" feelings of modern people. Presently, rural landscape planning and protecting are being taken seriously. However, the quality assessment of rural landscape is a missing element in the rural landscape planning and protecting. This study analyzed the research status of rural landscape quality assessment since 1960s,and summarized previous rural landscape quality evaluation indexes, methods and related researches. Then,the authors took Lin Pan as an example in west Sichuan, and aiming at the insufficiency of current research, gave suggestions for rural landscape quality assessment in the future. Further research may focus on the following aspects:(1) establishing a suitable evaluation index system of landscape quality;(2) standarding operation process in the evaluation of landscape quality;(3) comparing the classification of landscape evaluation;(4) focus on landscape pattern and landscape aesthetics;(5) attaching great importance to the regional culture of rural landscape.