In order to systematically analyze the research development of curricular ideological and political education in China, literatures related to curricular ideological and political education collected by CNKI from 2017 to 2021 are selected as samples, and metrology software CiteSpace is used to analyze the literature characteristics, hotspots and frontier trends. The results show that curriculum ideological and political research started late in China, the degree of inter institutional cooperation is low, and the interdisciplinary research is insufficient. The researches mainly focus on five topics: concept connotation, value implication, construction path, discipline practice and teaching evaluation system. From the perspective of the development trend, the characteristic system construction and discipline application research of curricular ideological and political education in the intelligent era have attracted more and more attention, and building curriculum ideological and political design theories and methods that can meet the requirements of "first-class curriculum" construction is the research focus in this field. In the future, inter-disciplinary research should be strengthened, and the deep integration between curricular ideological and political education and information technology should be promoted.