Abstract: Chinese traditional management wisdom has some guiding value to discipline building of universities. Based on the connotation definition of "Way, Law, Potential, Technique and Device", the paper presents a research on the mentality and measures of discipline building in the view of traditional management wisdom. Taking the development experience of first-class universities for reference, the paper concludes management method from five angles. The paper suggests that making correct choice and addicting to the chosen disciplinary strategy is the right "Way". "Law"is the base for discipline building, disciplinary culture development and construction of freedom and order, while"Potential" means to do discipline building work with the help of authority, developing priority and dislocation competition. Doing layout of the entity and developing disciplinary system is the "Technique", and assessing regularly and cooperating with enterprises is the"Device".