Abstract: Nourishing the education of ideals and convictions for young people with the excellent traditional Chinese culture is the need to break through the shackles of the development of ideal and conviction education at the present stage, and also the need to promote the innovation and development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture and enhance confidence in national culture. This paper starts from the compatibility between the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the education of ideals and convictions for young people, and analyzes the integration of the educational values and the goals of the two. The rich connotation of the excellent traditional Chinese culture is conducive to forging the foundation of ideal and belief education for young people, among which political wisdom helps young people identify with political ideals, the concept of harmony helps young people understand moral ideals, and the concept of make positive aspiration for life helps young people build personal ideals. The wisdom of educating people in the excellent traditional Chinese culture helps to improve the effectiveness of ideal and conviction education for young people, and forms a synergy between culture and education by adhering to scientific education methods, stimulating the subjective consciousness of education objects, and optimizing the moral education atmosphere and the external environment.

Key words: excellent traditional Chinese culture, youth, education of ideals and convictions, compatibility, educational content, educational effectiveness