As a main tool for recording Chinese language, Chinese characters are the only self-contained characters in the world. The splendid culture created by the Chinese nation is recorded in China’s 5000-year history of civilization. In the historical development and change, many Chinese splendid cultures has been internalized and accumulated in Chinese characters, and gradually become the shared valuable wealth for both Chinese people and those all over the world. This course entitled Chinese-character culture mainly covers the Chinese characters’ origin, structures, evolution, and meanings. The course also includes the artistic expression of Chinese characters, the reform of Chinese characters, the relationship between Chinese characters and culture, and the information process of Chinese characters. Through a detailed analysis, this paper has extracted many ideological and political elements from the course. In this sense, this paper lays a necessary foundation for the construction of Chinese-character culture course from the ideological and political perspective in colleges and universities, thereby, promoting the ideological and political construction of the course. In the same vein, this study attempts to fully realize the educational value of the course, which is expected to lift students’ knowledge level as well as their moral level.