This article analyzes the problems existing in the education and research of traditional Chinese colors, and believes that although research and promotion of traditional Chinese colors have achieved rich results, there are still shortcomings in macro level observation and thinking. It stays too much in local areas and specific things, and cannot form a more complete research system of traditional Chinese colors. It emphasizes the need to take the traditional Chinese five color view as the system, organically integrate Western color theory, and combine representative traditional Chinese cultural and artistic works to comprehensively sort out the color matching system with the most typical characteristics of Chinese tradition, explore the basic principles of traditional Chinese color matching, and make it the basis for achieving creative transformation of contemporary Chinese traditional art.