Abstract:Although fish is a secondary animal landscape element in gardens, it has a long history and rich culture, and it promotes garden activities. This paper takes fish element landscape as the research object,through combing its evolution in classical Chinese gardens, divides its expression forms into four categories of "fish-farming for production", "fish-farming for viewing", "fish as a decoration element" and "expressing spiritual thoughts through fish", and summarizes the evolution characteristics of fish landscape in four development stages: enlightenment, transition,deepening and stagnation. Further, the paper explores the changes of gardening concepts in different periods and the promoting relationship between gardening concepts and fish landscape elements. The paper analyzes the landscape forms from the perspective of landscape planning and design, and explores the gardening concepts behind different forms, so as to enrich the research on fish element landscape.