In the pursuit of modernization, the rural exodus in China has emptied the villages causing the decline of rural culture. The traditional industrial sector has become unsustainable, and serious social problems have arisen. Some villages will even disappear. However, China was built from rural societies that is organized around a clan system with the power which is exercised in a specific place, the ancestral temple. A great number of ancestral temples had been damaged or been used for other purposes. This research will bring you to the Longdongba village in the Youyang region where the Tujia and Miao communities live. Firstly, it will discuss the relation between the ancestral temples and the villages. Secondly it will investigate the rehabilitation of public space and architecture as an durable impulse for rural revitalization and as a platform for exchange between the city and the countryside. Furthermore, how architecture can reshape and perpetuate traditional rural culture.