Theory and history of landscape architecture course is an important fundamental and bases for the program curriculum system. With the new turn changing of curriculum system for the education, this paper explores the renovation of theory and history of landscape architecture course based on the“illustration”, and proposes a teaching framework with three different objectives of “knowledge and technology”,“procedure and method”and “passion and value”.This study aims to help student understanding of relationship between time and space in traditional Chinese garden, developing a holistic map for the history of Chinese garden, exploring the contemporary meaning of history for modern landscape design and developing the valuable traditional cultural. It may also finally benefit on students to have a positive outlook on the life and world, which further improving them to bridge the gap between theory and practice, transformation of knowledge into wisdom.