Abstract: Exploring the evolution characteristics and intervention factors of rural landscape plays a positive role in guiding the coordinated development of rural landscape and resources. Based on the classification of rural landscape on visual perception, this paper used landscape pattern analysis method to reflect the spatial and temporal characteristics of rural landscape evolution in Honglan Town, Lishui District, Nanjing. Then it explored the relationship between different intervention factors and the evolution. The results show that rural landscape diversity decreased by a slower pace. The landscape evenness index declined slightly and the dominance index increased a little. In addition, the specific landscape evolution directions varied from village to village. Differences in expenditures of environmental improvement, investment in the construction of ‘beautiful villages’ and the degree of farmland transfer were significant contributors to the evolution of rural landscape. By contrast, the influence of government subsidy-related factors was weak.