With the continuous advancement of China’s education system reform, there has been more development requirements for modern teaching in the context of multicultural development. For the tradition music teaching, establishing and perfecting the traditional music teaching system of colleges and universities has become an innovative driving force for its development. Based on this, this paper starts from the development history of traditional music in colleges in China. Then, it summarizes the current situation and problems of traditional music in college teaching system through the field survey in colleges and universities, and also analyses the necessity of multicultural education mode in traditional music teaching. Finally, the realistic path of traditional music teaching design in colleges was obtained. It is expected to work out the traditional music teaching methods in line with the college education in China.