The paper discussed the composition, spiritual essence and time value of China rice culture, the content of rice culture involves the rice origin, planting, processing, circulation, consumption, technology, etc., the performance including historical story, idiom and allusion, poetry and painting, and knowledge and beliefs. Rice culture has unique values and concepts. This article puts forward that the spiritual essence of Chinese rice culture is “intensive cultivation, feelings to family and national, miserable consciousness, harmony to people”. Chinese rice culture fully embodies China's national spirit of self-improvement and the spirit of reform and innovation, and is a typical representative of the Chinese spirit. It has profound practical significance and far-reaching historical significance in revitalizing the countryside, enhancing national self-confidence and national cohesion, building a happy family and an exquisite society, raising civic awareness, and building a community with a shared future in the world.