Abstract: Traditional village have always been a hot topic of social concern and an important research area in geography, urban and rural planning and other disciplines. With the development of industrialization and urbanization, the traditional villages are facing irreversible decline. Through the analysis of the classic literature, the knowledge process of visualization software CiteSpace is used to analyze the research process and characteristics, the identification of knowledge groups, the research hot spots and trends, and the relationship between research institutions and scholars in traditional village area. This paper reviews the research background of the traditional villages, summarizes the transformation of the research objects, the research contents and the research methods. On this basis, under the social background of the Five-in-One transformation and development, this paper puts forward that based on the existing research foundation, the research of Chinese traditional village should synthesize multi research perspectives, grasp the research hot spots and trends, constantly improve the theory and innovative methods to form a more complete theoretical research system and update the traditional village protection model.