The purpose of this study is to explore residents for cognition of favors about residents, the factors of influence on landscape preference and the differences of landscape preference toward individual background. According to the study results, there are stewardship, coherence, disturbance, historicity, visual scale, imagery, complexity, naturalness and ephemera that significantly related to preference of rural landscape. There were significant difference in rural landscape preference between different gender, age, marital status, educational background, occupation, residential timing, and aesthetics education. And it discovered imagery that caused the most influence toward preference of rural landscape. There are various rural scenes, natural resources and profound culture interior in Yunlin Country. In this study, we consider that local construction and landscape planning should be more accord with residents demand by understanding their own cognition of environmental landscape, which is forming under the development of country industry. Thus, it is important to explore the influence factor in the preference of rural landscape to build rural scene with local characteristic rural landscape.