Chinese traditional creation is a vast and rich treasure house. It is the crystallization of wisdom accumulated by historical civilization. Its tolerance, wisdom, aesthetics and inheritance reflect the unique value of Chinese civilization. As one of the ancient characters, Chinese characters have been used and developed for a long time. The work aims to explore the application of Chinese traditional creation wisdom in contemporary Chinese character design, sort out its rich visual expression, summarize the main path for combination design of traditional creation and Chinese characters, and think about more diverse expression techniques in the future. This paper combs the enlightenment of Chinese traditional creation as the theme, as the image, as the skill and as the formal language on Chinese characters. Through case analysis, it summarizes the design methods of combining traditional creation with concrete transformation, imitation reproduction, deconstruction and reorganization, increase and decrease isomorphism in contemporary Chinese character design. With Chinese characters as carriers, nutrients should be absorbed from traditional creations to integrate elements, symbols and forms into Chinese character design, combine the aesthetics of form, stroke and structure in Chinese character art, pay attention to the combination of traditional creation connotation and modern techniques, pursue the unity of internal temperament and external image, and the unity of decoration and function, so as to reflect the cultural heritage and national characteristics of Chinese character design. We will continue to expand the Chinese character design methods inspired by traditional creations, so that traditional creations can enable modern Chinese character design to play a greater value.