Abstract: According to Marx’ s view of needs, the understanding of the problems in need must adhere to the position of historical materialism, and people’ s need is the internal driving force for the development and promotion of people’ s life concept. The view of life is the concentrated embodiment of the view of farmers’ needs. Since the reform and opening up, the view of life of farmers in eastern China has undergone a change from “small rich is safe” to “and rich and safe” , and the view of farmers in central and western regions has experienced a change from “safe land relocation” to “small rich is safe” and then to “and rich and safe” . In the process of change, farmers life shows a social dependency, demand orientation, adjust guidance, subject dependency characteristics and the positive and negative impact, to weaken the negative impact, in the process of Chinese modernization promoting rural revitalization should realize the rationalization of multiple needs, and promote the modern transformation of farmers life.