Abstract:Water affects people’s life living all the time, including the agriculture production and social culture activity. Humans and water environment adapt to each other in the particular region constantly, finally presenting a composite landscape system with adaptability. Numerous spring water settlements live in Langxi River basin, which located in Hongfanchi spring group, one of the Jinan’s spring group.The unique spring water system has formed the water adaptive landscape which has the typical region characteristic. This research studied the water adaptive landscape system evolution in Langxi River basin from the cognition perspective of water adaptability, we divided water adaptive landscape elements and spatial patterns in three system: water adaptive subjects (forest-field system, settlement system), water adaptive objects (natural water system, artificial water system) and the evolution process. According to the character of the different stages of the mutual water adaptation, the process can be divided in four periods: initial period, development period,transformation period and stable period. We summarized the regular pattern of the general through analyzing the water adaptive systems of each period.