With the help of the bifurcation theory of dynamical differential system and maple software, we shall devote ourselves to research travelling wave solutions and bifurcations of the (2 + 1)-dimensional dissipative long wave equation. The study of travelling wave solutions for long wave equation derives a planar Hamiltonian system. Based on phase portraits, we obtain exact explicit expressions of some bounded traveling wave solutions and some important singular traveling wave solutions, under different parametric conditions.