<p>Traditional villages in mountainous areas are numerous but scattered. Their landscapes are small in scale and simple in composition, undergoing certain evolution during the rural tourism development. However, the evolution trend and its relationship with rural tourism remain unclear. This paper presented a method to quantitatively define the landscape boundaries, using Xiangxi Prefecture’s traditional villages as an example. Then their landscape carrying capacity level, spatiotemporal evolutionary characteristics, and main influencing factors were revealed. The results indicate that the overall carrying capacity of traditional village landscapes is at a medium to low level, and terrain is the most important influencing factor. Traffic conditions have a significant impact on the carrying capacity of production and living landscapes. The evolution of carrying capacity has a certain correlation with tourism development trends and protection policies. Finally, suggestions for landscape protection and tourism development of traditional villages were proposed at the regional and village scales.</p>