Abstract:Jiaodong peninsula, with its three-sided sea location, covered with mountains, has been an important birthplace of Taoism. The coastal climate characteristics and special marine weather make the mountain area become an ideal place for many Taoist factions to build temples. The Taoist temples are not evenly distributed in the mountain area, but take Kunyu Mountain and Laoshan Mountain as the center, showing the layout pattern oflocal aggregation and overall scattered points. Fengshui theory is transformed into "high mountain", "mountain ring" and "water system". Based on these three indexes, the Fengshui landscape pattern of each mountain range is analyzed by using GIS. This analysis found that the layout rules of the Taoist temples were closely related to the macroscopical Fengshui landscape pattern of the mountain area, and mountains in line with the ideal landscape pattern of this theory have more Taoist temples, while fewer on the contrary. This study explores the relationship between the distribution of mountain Taoist temples and Fengshui theory on a macro scale in Jiaodong peninsula, which can provide reference for the study on the location of temples in other regions.