The area around Chaohu Lake has a glorious revolutionary history, with rich red cultural resources. As three-dimensional materials, they are vivid teaching materials to carry out college students' feelings of family and country education, ideals and beliefs education, moral quality education, which is deeply in line with the fundamental task of college moral cultivation. By explaining the general situation of the red culture resources around Chaohu Lake, the article analyzes the educational function of the red culture around Chaohu Lake in the work of building morality and cultivating people in colleges and universities, focuses on exploring the implementation path of the red culture around Chaohu Lake integrating into the work of building morality and cultivating people in colleges and universities, and puts forward that the educational connotation of the red culture around Chaohu Lake should be deeply explored, the implementation methods of ideological and political education should be expanded, the construction of the red culture on campus should promote the work of building morality and cultivating people in colleges and universities, and the long-term mechanism of the red culture education should be continuously improved. The aim is to effectively play the educational function of local red culture as the carrier of moral cultivation in colleges and universities, and expand the path of moral cultivation in colleges and universities.