In recent years, the importance of humanistic quality education has become increasingly prominent. The State Council and the Ministry of Education have issued documents on multiple occasions, clearly stating the need to adhere to moral education and all-round development, and integrate humanistic quality education into the entire process of teaching and education. The author believes that students' humanistic quality can be improved by learning traditional Chinese culture. Taking Zhengzhou Institute of Technology as an example, this paper analyzes the current situation of humanistic quality of students in higher vocational colleges and puts forward strategies for higher vocational colleges to strengthen humanistic quality education from the perspective of traditional Chinese culture.