In colleges and universities, college students' emotional education has always been a blind spot in school ideological and political education, which often becomes empty preaching because it is divorced from students' emotional reality. Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the emotional education of college students for cultivating their sound personality and enhancing the effectiveness of ideological and political work in colleges and universities. First, the connotation of emotional education for college students is the inner experience and emotional response of people to whether objective things meet their psychological needs, which is a relatively stable psychological structure. Emotion focuses on the experience and feeling of people's feelings, and emotion is the external expression of emotion. Emotion has positive and negative poles and multiple dimensions, including two parts: emotions associated with basic social needs, mainly referring to basic emotions with innate characteristics accompanied by attachment, communication, respect, inquiry and beauty; The emotion associated with the needs of advanced society mainly refers to the emotion obtained through education, accompanied by the pursuit of truth, appreciation of beauty and creation. It can also be called sentiment or humanistic feelings, which are embodied in national identity, national responsibility, social responsibility, collective belonging and reverence for nature, moral sense for others and humanity for all mankind. And humanistic emotion is the core content of humanistic quality. Emotional education is to attach importance to people's emotional cultivation, the basic role and positive influence of emotion in people's development, and use emotional mechanisms and conditions to find out how to make emotional quality support people in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor. ......