Rural governance is an important component in the framework of rural revitalization strategy and the inherent basic logic of China's national governance. To frame and improve the autonomous rural legal and moral governance, we should actively explore, inherit, protect, activate and innovate traditional rural governance resources, promote local governance and realize the ultimate goal of good rural governance. There are rich governance resources in traditional cultural structure of Yi people, and relevant scholars have recognized it and conducted relevant discussions or researches from different perspectives. Presently, there are fewer direct and embedded "rural governance" researches, but scholars on Yi people's customary law, lineage system, "degu", folk belief culture, and rural elites have demonstrated that Yi people's traditional governance resources can offer greater efficiency and unique advantages in achieving better rural governance.