Color is a very important part of human relations, and it is essential for artists to build a rigorous color system. The teaching and research of color composition is endless, but there are few integrated studies on the theme of traditional Chinese color elements. Chinese and Western colors are based on natural colors as the starting point of cognition, but different cultural backgrounds have formed different color concepts, color teaching reflects the traditional cultural connotation, the thesis from the color composition of the optimization of the teaching links for research, effectively integrated into the traditional Chinese color elements, so that the course localization, nationalization, so as to integrate into a teaching system that meets the needs of Chinese design and has Chinese characteristics.