Abstract:Taking traditional villages in Guangdong Province as the research object, CiteSpace and VOSviewier are used to analyze the frequency and clustering of literature key words collected from the database of China National Knowledge Network, in order to systematically sort out and summarize the trends and hot spots of research on traditional villages in Guangdong in the past 20 years. Firstly, "Lingnan water town", "cultural ecology" and "Gulao", as the research hot spots of traditional villages in Guangdong , have obvious regional spatial characteristics of Lingnan. Secondly, the dynamics of the research field include four aspects: village cultural value and historical evolution, spatial pattern, rural style and landscape environment, and the status quo of heritage protection and utilization. Finally, based on the protection and development of traditional villages in Guangdong, suggestions are put forward to strengthen the control of rural landscape, improve villagers' cultural confidence and local identity, coordinate the relationship between protection and development, and construct sustainable protection mode.