Abstract: As spiritual product of human civilization, fine traditional culture of areas of minority ethnic groups have significant functions in governance of rural areas with respect to value guidance, social identity, moral evaluation and cultural integration. To grasp the major paths for and existing problems in the philosophy of fine traditional culture of “shaping people with culture” based on a survey of the modern development and practical situation of traditional culture in rural governance of areas of minority ethnic groups, the author suggests the following measures: 1) improving the cultural ecology governance mechanism to consolidate the rural cultural development foundation; 2) strengthening training of rural cultural talents to promote inheritance of ethnic and folk culture; 3) emphasizing integrated development of culture and tourism to advance prosperity and development of rural culture; 4) expanding project funding channels to guarantee cultural development support; and 5) focusing on overall and comprehensive governance to advocate scientific normalization of rural cultural construction. These measures can better guide rural cultural development and influence the rural areas with fine traditional culture to eventually realize the goal of rural revitalization.

Key words: rural governance, traditional culture, area of minority ethnic group, practical path