Abstract: Garden painting interacts with Chinese gardens in the process of historical development. From the perspective of the current protection and inheritance of classical gardens, garden painting has certain research value in landscape architecture for the study of garden history. It is an important research field to explore the symbiotic relationship between garden painting and garden construction, and there is still broad space for development. This paper systematically reviewed the landscape research literature of garden painting, analyzed five main research fields, including cultural characteristics and development influence, aesthetic association and artistic conception expression, image vision and space construction, garden elements and landscape, restoration and recoverability, through data collection and bibliometrics, summarized the application and connection of garden painting in garden construction, providing certain reference value for garden design.