Higher vocational education has entered the 21st century, after more than ten years of demonstration school construction, the construction of backbone schools and the current construction of high-quality schools and so on, the connotative development has made great progress. However, in terms of cultural education, the characteristics of school-enterprise cooperation in vocational education emphasize the zero-distance docking with enterprises, so as to create a “professional person” with workplace consciousness, workplace ability and professional quality. As a result, the sustainable development ability of the students cultivated by the higher vocational colleges lags far behind the students of the undergraduate colleges in 3-5 years, which is generally manifested as the lack of sustainability and the insufficient follow-up space for the development. One of the root causes of the problem lies in the lack of excellent traditional culture education in higher vocational education. This paper aims to explore the important role of the education mechanism and system construction of excellent traditional culture on the education quality of higher vocational colleges, in order to promote the connotation construction of higher.