Reusing the idle rural homestead is an important “engine” to coordinate the relationship between rural people and land, optimize the allocation of rural land resources, stimulate the vitality of rural development and promote the revitalization of rural areas. It is of great practical significance to promote the living use of idle homestead for activating rural land elements, activating farmers’ sleeping land assets, increasing farmers’ income and providing land security for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. At the present stage, the evolution of homestead function in the process of urbanization of agricultural population transfer and the expansion of homestead function under the strategy of the rural revitalization strategy provide an opportunity to promote the living use of idle homestead, which is feasible in practice. Under the strategy of rural revitalization, there are two restricting factors of “obstacles to people” and “obstacles to land” in the utilization of idle homestead. In view of this, this paper puts forward the ways to solve the problems of the living use of idle homestead under the strategy of rural revitalization, including stimulating the endogenous power of farmers’ participation to effectively solve the “obstacles to people”, and exploring the multiple use of homestead and highlighting the service to rural revitalization to effectively solve the “obstacles to land”.