Abstract: The rural governance system, which combines self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue, is an important field of promoting the modernization of national governance system. When re-constructing the rural governance system, the selection of path combining self-governance with rule of law is the key point as well as the difficult point. There are such opinions as “limited autonomy”, “legal intervention” and “coordination and interaction relationship” in the existing researches on the relationship between villagers’ autonomy and rule of law, but all of these opinions are lacking reflective thinking, with a certain negative effect. Therefore, this paper takes the theory of the reflexive law as the entry point and tries to achieve the “three-in-one” rural governance through the path of “regulated autonomy” combined with villagers’ self-governance and rule of law. Accordingly, the reflective route of villagers’ self-governance combined with rule of law need to improve the formulation and implementation of village regulations, strengthen the procedure regulation of villagers’ self-governance, improve the internal supervision and relief system of villagers’ self-governance and optimize the flexible governance of rule of virtue in rural governance.

Key words: villagers’ self-governance; rule of law; reflexive law; rural governance