Vegetation growth is increasingly affected by frequent and intense compound dry-hot events (CDHEs). However, how resistance time and recovery time of different vegetation types respond to the combined effects of multiple CDHE characteristics remain unclear. In this study, we developed a novel framework that integrates precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and surface air temperature to systematically detect CDHEs, and quantified their impacts on vegetation resistance time and recovery time in China during the growing seasons from 1982 to 2022. Our results reveal that the occurrences, severity, and duration of CDHEs affecting vegetation show increasing trends in most parts of China from 1982 to 2022. Vegetation resistance shows a declining trend (-0.27 decade- 1) while resilience exhibits an increasing trend (0.009 decade- 1), with extreme CDHEs resulting in stronger resistance but lower resilience. The combined effects of severe severity and prolonged duration (>= 3 months) significantly alter vegetation temporal responses: severe and long-duration CDHEs shorten forest resistance time by 2.2 months but extend recovery time by 1.3 months compared to mild and short-duration events. Vegetation resistance time and recovery time increase from arid regions (3.63 and 3.94 months) to humid areas (4.06 and 4.49 months), with grasslands showing significantly shorter response times (3.4 and 3.9 months) than forests (4.1 and 4.4 months). Additionally, precipitation emerges as the dominant driver of resistance time and recovery time. These findings underscore the need to consider interactive CDHE characteristics when evaluating vegetation vulnerability and guiding ecosystem management.