Abstract: When XI Jinping General Secretary put forward the “precision” for poverty alleviation in 2013, rural poverty alleviation has become a high-profile topic areas, “financial poverty alleviation” poverty alleviation “industry” , “tourism poverty alleviation” and “mental poverty” have been proposed, especially the “mental poverty” has become the key research areas of the field in recent years. Through combing the basic connotation of spirit of rural poverty and form, has been clear about the spirit of rural poor universality, the structure of space and time difference, concealment and urban and rural culture blend of sexuality and poverty in rational value and rational tool two basic forms, its causes is the external causes such as economic, political and social and poor people’ s own internal cause the result of joint action.