Shitang village in Zhuzhou city has been selected, on the basis of landscape ecology, as an object for a case study of landscape pattern index, which includes patch density, average patch area, landscape diversity, homogeneity, degree of dominance, isolation, fragmentation, dimension, etc., followed by a research on characteristics of the typical rural landscape pattern in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan rural area. The results show that: 1) The advantages of waters, farmland and woodland landscape in Shitang village is obvious, with a great potential landscape resources. The structure and function of this landscape are complete, but the tremendous human disturbance, as well as its irregular boundary, makes the landscape ecosystem vulnerable to disruption; 2) The distribution of waters in Shitang village is uneven but with a higher degree of separation. Random excavation activities of the villagers make the water system fragile, easy to be fractured; 3) The residential land in Shitang village is characterized with a higher degree of fragmentation, with a shortage of land for public use. The infrastructure in the village has not yet been effectively improved, with a larger public square site located in front of Longmen Temple. 4) The small density of industrial land and a high degree of separation in Shitang village makes it much more dependent on agriculture. In addition to the land area for road or square use, the dimension of other landscape patches in Shitang village is about 1.5, indicating an irregularity in its boundary shape. With its great biological diversity of edge effect, the biological ecology in this area will be extremely unstable. In view of this, some relevant policies have been put forward, such as balancing regional land development, connecting the water cycle system, and reducing the intensity of human disturbance on the forest land, so as to improve the overall landscape stability and diversity, thus helping to form and maintain a good rural stability system.