Abstract:the excellent traditional culture of China is an important spiritual source of socialist core values, which can play an important role in cultivating the core values of college students. This article will firstly in this paper introduce the excellent traditional culture and socialist core values and their dialectical relationship, and then discusses the significance of today's excellent traditional culture in cultivating college students' core values, and put forward some constructive suggestions based on the excellent traditional culture of the core values of college students cultivate