Abstract: Portrait stone is an important expression of ancient painting art and one of the origins of stone sculpture art in China. Through combing and analyzing the patterns of Han Dynasty pictorial stones, this work explored the cultural meanings of these patterns and analyzed their visual language. The preferences of different age groups for men's boots were investigated, and the basic design styles were determined by counting and analyzing the obtained data. The basic elements of the representative pictorial stone patterns of Han Dynasty were extracted, and a variety of innovative patterns were derived and applied to men’s boots by applying simplification, generalization, refinement and other design means. On the one hand, this research increases the diversity of shoes and boots and enriches the design system of men's shoes; on the other hand, it also provides a new direction for the innovation and application of traditional Chinese patterns in modern shoes and boots design.