The criminal reconciliation of customary law in various forms in the process of the development of ethnic minority in history,but with the development of modern society,due to the limitation of the judicial context changes,the customary law itself, and its conflict with the modern criminal law system, the national criminal reconciliation habit continuation method in modern society into a dilemma. In order to make the relevant customary law to play value,they must remove the bad habits,close to the modern criminal law system,through the direct absorption of legal provisions from the customary law rationality,or make it become the supplement modern criminal reconciliation system,in order to make the national customary law to give full play to the value of criminal reconciliation in modern society.