Abstract: 【Objective/Meaning】By putting forward the implementation path of the governance of new rural sages in the rural revitalization, a perspective for constructing a good governance pattern and improving the governance capacity of the grass-roots level was provided from the perspective of rural revitalization.【Methods/Procedures】Through the literature research method, the “failure” and its causes of the governance of the traditional rural sages were analyzed, and the types, characteristics and functions of the rural sages in the new era were sorted out. By comparing the differences between the traditional rural sages and the rural sages in the new era, the implementation path of the governance of new rural sages was put forward from the perspective of rural revitalization.【Results/Conclusions】Along with China entered the stage of “urban and rural China”, due to the deconstruction of “acquaintance society”, the flood of “materialization thought”, the dishonesty of grass-roots organizations, and the dilution of traditional good customs, the governance of traditional rural sages was facing the current situation of “failure”, and the new rural sages was beginning to play an inestimable role in the new era of rural governance. Therefore, the implementation path for the governance of rural sages in the new era was put forward from the three aspects of hardware, software and sustainability.