The fundamental purpose of college education is to cultivate comprehensive talents with all-round development, and its primary task is the development of moral education. As an excellent representative of Chinese excellent traditional culture, calligraphy art education has a natural close relationship with moral education, which determines that it has a certain role in promoting moral education. This paper attempts to explore an effective way to integrate calligraphy art education into moral education in colleges and universities, so as to promote the realization of the fundamental purpose of college education.