Abstract: A wealth of ancient China's knowledge of forest science and technology have been accumulated. They were recorded in various classics scatteredly. These classics were The Book of Odes (Shi Jing), Works of Guanzi (Guanzi), Rites of the Zhou Dynasty (Zhou Li), Monthly Ordinances for the Four Classes of People (Si Min Yue Ling), Literary Expositor (Er Ya), Extensive Magazine on Nature (Guang Zhi), Essential Ways for Living of the Common People(Qi Min Yao Shu), Manual of Bamboo(Zhu Pu), Manual of Tongtree(Tong Pu),Exploitation of the Works of Nature (Tian Gong Kai Wu), etc. The categories of these knowledge include identification of trees, phenology of trees, forest ecology, forest management, forest cultivation, forest protection and forest utilization. These were a precious legacy of history. In this artical, the writer collects those important historial materials, which recorded in Chinese classics, puts them in order and analysis, and in the sequence as Pre-Qin period, Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty period, Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty period, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty period.