Abstract: Any culture has its dual character, i.e. the advancement and limitations. In the long process of history, every nationality in Yunnan Province created splendid and distinctive farming culture. However, Yunnan farming culture today has its facet that is unfavorable to the development of current society, which must be discarded while succeeding to and carrying forward it. The limitations of Yunnan farming culture are mainly originated from the fact that people are closed and preservative with self-sufficiency, adherent conservatively to the old convention and habits, satisfied with being well off without seeking progress, primitively equal without competitive consciousness, and are too powerless to resist natural calamities and risks.