The paper, comparing the research achievements of modern and contemporary Chinese philosophical methodology and choosing four basic philosophical issues(Cosmology, Ontology, Gongfu Theory, and Realm Theory) and four basic philosophy schools(Shamanism, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism) as physical locating tools, classifies related literature of shan-shui cultural system, and clarifies their relations, before putting forward opinions on the interpretive structure, operation principle and modern value of shan-shui cultural system.