In mountainous areas, valley is the ideal region for ancient village distribution, developing valley economy can provide material basis for protecting ancient village, otherwise, protecting ancient village is also the focal point of developing valley economy culture. On the base of analyzing the typical modes of valley economy, which are cultural creative piloting mode, features industry doming mode, lead scenic driving mode, natural scenery traveling mode and folk cultural exhibiting mode, this paper studied the features,and indicated the enlightenment on protecting ancient villages in the mo...