Abstract: The Curved Brook for Drinking and Poetry, a Chinese traditional scenery pattern, is a motif portrayed repeatedly in poems, paintings, calligraphies and gardens of successive dynasties. This paper makes a rational analysis of the environmental changes and factors, to provide a basis for its continuous inheritance in modern and contemporary landscape architecture. Based on the retrieval of keywords “Liu Shang” in Si Bu Cong Kan, the paper explores the service condition of “Liu Shang” in different periods, forms of literature and semantics, with the methods of data statistics, semantic analysis and text analysis. It further studies the development process and environmental elements of the pattern of Curved Brook for Drinking and Poetry. This paper concludes that the pattern of Curved Brook for Drinking and Poetry mainly relies on three situations: natural environments, gardens and historic relics and architectures, involving four types of environmental elements: mountain terrains, plants, waters and architectures. There are differences in the application of various environmental elements in different situations. Water element is especially essential in all environments. In the end, we discussed the importance of the Curved Brook for Drinking and Poetry in Chinese traditional literati gardens.