Abstract: Rural textbooks, starting from the beginning of the 20th century, reflected the development of Chinese society, especially the rural society over the century, documented the special contribution to preserving local culture and inspiring patriotism. In the 21th century, rural textbooks are in trouble in reality. Rural textbooks, as a proper name and textbooks themselves, tend to decline, reflecting the gradually worsening rural problems. Therefore, the 19th CPC National Congress proposed the rural vitalization strategy, which is a huge systematic project and rural education can play important roles. Rural textbook is the core of rural education. Rural textbooks can preserve, inherit and identify the declining rural culture; inspire students' spirit of loving their hometown and motherland; strengthening rural youth's barren spiritual home. To vitalize rural areas, we need to restart and develop rural textbooks to improve their quality.

Key words: rural textbooks, rural vitalization