Cultural confidence, characterized by inclusiveness, guidance, and inheritance, has become an important core of education popularization in the new era. As a core basic course in the humanities, the Modern Chinese course possesses both instrumental and humanistic attributes, serving as a key position for curriculum ideological and political education. Based on the concept of cultural confidence, the effective integration of the Modern Chinese course and curriculum, ideological and political education can be achieved, enhancing students’ language application abilities and ideological and political literacy. Therefore, this paper analyzes the necessity and dilemmas of ideological and political education in the Modern Chinese course under the background of cultural confidence, and explores its practical model, aiming to provide practical reference for the construction of curriculum ideological and political education guided by cultural confidence.