Abstract: In the past, rural revitalization, driven only by urban capital, had a serious impact on rural social ecology. The low impact orientation of social ecology could help rural revitalization from three aspects:materialized space, social order and ideology. Under the low-impact orientation of social ecology, the connotation of rural revitalization lies in seeking the path of sustainable revitalization from the whole ecological chain, and relying on the advantages of high autonomy to construct the meso-micro rural social ecosystem, including the pattern-processmechanism construction model in the construction of materialized environment, the state-response-adaptation mechanism in passive urbanization, and the exposure-fusion-creation system of cultural ecology. Taking Wuhua Castle Village in Xunzhen Town, Hequ County, Shanxi Province as an empirical case, the paper holds that its revitalization path conforms to the development thinking of social ecological low impact orientation.