With the rapid development of domestic design industry and design science, the status and value of design history in the research field of design science have become more prominent, and the design history has become an important unit in the field research of design science. Thus, this paper aims to analyze and study the status and progress of domestic design history with the bibliometric method and the knowledge graph. Taking the data of 441 core journal papers collected in CNKI database as a sample, constructing the research knowledge graph of domestic design history via CiteSpace bibliometric data analysis software, and analyzing the research status and progress of domestic design history in terms of overall publication trends, topics, citations,