Chinese traditional landscape painting uses pen and ink to depict landscapes on a two-dimensional scale to express emotion. It not only to the expression of modeling but also pays attention to the display of charm. Chinese traditional gardens, developed from the shrinking and copying of natural landscapes, pursue the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Therefore, there is a natural connection between landscape painting and gardens. To clarify the relation between landscape painting and gardens, this paper adopts the “whole comparison” research method to analyze the taste of landscape painting (moral character, literary quality, and paint quality) and the quality of gardens (substance, essence, and temperament). On this basis, it analyzes the mutual penetration and complementary relationship between Chinese landscape painting art and Chinese gardens, It summarizes the logical commonality of traditional Chinese landscape painting and traditional Chinese gardens from top to bottom, that is, first, the philosophical guiding ideology of the following nature, second, the aesthetic implication of elegance and purity, and third, the way of expression of God in form. Drawing on the art theory and practice of traditional Chinese landscape painting, and its enlightenment to the inheritance and development of traditional gardens.