Objective/Meaning  By exploring the dilemma and path of the protection of excellent farming culture from the perspective of harmonious and beautiful countryside, this study aimed to provide reference for the protection of excellent farming culture and provide the internal driving force for the construction of harmonious and beautiful countryside.

  Methods/Procedures  Through the methods of literature review, policy research, data analysis, and empirical investigation, the basic connotation of harmonious and beautiful countryside was summarized, and the dilemma of the protection of excellent farming culture from the perspective of harmonious and beautiful countryside was analyzed. Then, the corresponding paths were put forward.

  Results/Conclusions  The results showed that there were some difficulties in the excellent farming culture from the perspective of harmonious and beautiful countryside, such as the intensified cultural loss, the limited development of cultural industries, the impacted ideological space, and the weak inheritance. In view of this, it was necessary to optimize the protection space of excellent farming culture, enrich the format of excellent farming cultural products, excavate the connotation of excellent farming culture, and construct the protection mechanism of excellent farming culture, from the perspective of improving the brightness of rural environment, expanding the breadth of rural industry, increasing the temperature of rural culture and improving the validity of rural governance, thus to realize the systematic protection and the dynamic inheritance of excellent farming culture.