The“Eight Views”culture is being regarded both as a spacial literature and a literary space.As a comprehensive cultural phenomenon,it has two important connotations—literary context and landscape space.“Eight Views”in Chongqing is valuable owing to its characteristics on geographical culture and the artistic feature and integrity on poetry,and demonstrates the ancient value of mountains and rivers. This paper expounds the coupling between these two connotations by the case study of ancient“Eight Views”in Chongqing, and argues that the former takes effect on the latter through the Chinese ancient aesthetic traditions;conversely,the latter reacts to the former through behaviors. Finally,the paper summarizes the characteristics of Chongqing“Eight Views”in order to offer some enlightenment for the construction of cities with mountains and rivers.