Abstract: It is of great value and practical significance to protect, inherit and carry forward the culture of the Yellow River in the process of promoting the establishment of a spiritual home of the Chinese nation. By tracing the Yellow River and the Yellow River culture in the miniature history of the Chinese nation and exploring the practical path of building the common spiritual home of the Chinese nation with the Yellow River culture, it not only leads the major national strategies at the ideological level, but also actively responds to the cultural mission of constructing the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.