The domestic animated film Ne Zha was immediately widely praised and became a landmark masterpicce of Chinese animated film in recent years as soon as it came out in 2019. The film is adapted from Chinese traditional mythology. with Chinese aesthetic style in the form. However, there are still some problems worthy of analysis and reflection on the traditional Chinese cultural symbols in the animation character modeling. Traditional cultural symbols bear the dual tributes of fomm and meaning, and the film shows the formal beauty of character modeling through traditional cultural symbols at the fomm level. However, at the level of meaning, the traditional cultural symbols have not yet met the needs of the plot text, that is, the symbolic meaning and story content, hitorical background and regional features should form a logially self-consistent aesthetic system.