Education begins with life and returns to life. In the face of capital, technology and power, life education shoulders the mission of shaping the medical character of medical students in the reality of the predicament, from the perspective of theoretical logic and practical needs, life education is inherently inevitable to return to the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The modern interpretation of the spirituality, sensibility and rationality of the traditional Chinese view of life can bridge the gap between the technical rationality of medical students' knowledge of life and reshape the foundation of medical humanism. In addition, when we look at the life education of contemporary medical students, there is a rupture in the inheritance of traditional culture, so there is an urgent need to resurrect the cultural genes of the traditional wisdom of life in medical schools, especially to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the life thought of Confucianism, and to deeply realize that the life education of medical students is essentially a systematic educational practice integrating the dimensions of spirituality, sensibility and rationality based on the traditional Chinese concept of life.