Rapid development of construction industry in China leads to similar images of all buildings, characteristics of Chinese buildings are not well expressed, so exploration of traditional Chinese architectural structure and relevant contents becomes extremely important. Enlightenment from traditional Chinese architecture for modern architecture was elaborated from 4 perspectives of ancient Chinese architectural culture, technology, group layout and regionality. It was to change the present trend of blindly copying western architectural styles and neglecting traditional Chinese architectural characteristics, so as to help Chinese construction industry get rid of the dominatce of modern western architectural concepts.