This article briefly expounds the development history of the borrowing of scenery technique in traditional Chinese gardens within the Eastern garden-making system, and analyzes the classic cases of its expression techniques. Thus, it makes a comparison and summary of the differences in the borrowing of scenery techniques in garden-making in different periods of Chinese history. Based on this, the author, in combination with the spatial transformation practice in water network villages in recent years, takes the rural landscape transformation projects of Tujianao town in Ezhou and Dawang town in Yangxin as examples, and discusses the methods and approaches of how to make full use of the scenic resource advantages of water network villages and integrate and utilize the natural landscape resources around the villages.