Light-emitting liquid crystals show self-luminous and anisotropic characteristics, for overcoming the defect of aggregation-caused quenching. In this paper, tetraphenylethene, diphenylacrylonitrile, diphenylacetylene, triphenylene decorated with Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) and other liquid crystal materials with AIE property are introduced, their AIE and liquid crystal properties are mainly described and their structure-activity relationship is also illustrated. Literatures reported show the use of light-emitting liquid crystal materials in optoelectronic devices can greatly reduce costs and energy consumption. Finally, the aggregation-induced emission groups and liquid crystal groups were both used correctly in synthesis of light-emitting liquid crystals and the future study should focus on the application and luminous mechanism of such materials.