The ontological study of visual verbs mainly focuses on the meaning and grammar of visual verbs, while the grammar study focuses on the grammar of patterns, syntactic functions, grammaticalization, pragmatics and collocation. The cognitive research of visual verbs mainly includes categorization, life meaning, and metaphor and so on. The semantic research of visual verbs mainly includes polysemy and its meaning evolution, word-formation semantics, lexical semantics, syntactic semantics, and semantic field.