Abstract: Rural eco-tourism is a form of tourism fitted to the situation of our country, and a new industry in compliance with the requirement of sustainable development. There is a kind of interactive mechanism between ecological cultural tradition and eco-environmental construction in village tourism site. Taking the Azhedi Yi People Village of Shilin County in Yunnan Province as an example, this paper studied the effects of traditional “holy mountain” culture on the protection of forest resources and biodiversity, with emphasis on strengthening villagers ecological awareness, village regulation formulation, and ecological recycling economy, in the sustainable development of the interactive effects between ecological cultural tradition and eco-environmental construction.

Key words: ‘Holy hills’, Tropical rain forest, Soil mesofauna, Diversity