The exploration of China traditional culture in middle schools is mainly to improve students' appreciation ability, broaden their horizons, better understand the excellent cultural heritage of the motherland and cultivate their feelings of loving the motherland through comprehensive learning activities. According to the discipline characteristics and school characteristics, China traditional culture education in our school is based on classroom teaching, relying on the research and development of school-based teaching materials, focusing on infiltrating emotional education and aesthetic education in music and art classes, and carrying out physical fitness, physical and mental pleasure and positive education in physical education class. In the process of research and practice, teachers explore the important role of traditional culture in shaping students' personality, strengthening students' humanistic quality education, enhancing the sense of being masters of society and strengthening traditional moral education, showing the school-running characteristics with traditional culture, so that traditional culture can shape students' personality and behavior from many aspects such as behavior mode, ideological tendency, psychological tendency, psychological quality and self-awareness.