Abstract: In the field of rural land management in China, an important manifestation of the modernization of state governance is an attempt to eliminate or transform the tacit knowledge of rural society through formal knowledge. The formal knowledge of land, such as functional concepts, values and farming space view in national land management, have impacted the villagers' tacit knowledge, such as land functional integration views, vague values and farming space view. As results, land problems such as conflicts between people and land, land disputes, and widening economic disparities have emerged at China's land use sites. In order to alleviate social tension, interest adjustment and trial-and-error processes continue to occur at the sites of illegal construction, land acquisition, house demolition, and land space allocation. Tacit knowledge and formal knowledge have reached a coexisting state of mutual intersection. Digging through the common mechanism behind the practice of the land institution, institution emergence mechanism is not only the governance technology of Chinese administrative organizations to cope with complex societies, but also an art of governance that emphasizes expediency and dynamic balance.