with the advancement of urbanization and economic globalization,the legal protection of the cultural rights of ethnic minorities is facing unprecedented challenges.In order to solve these problems,we should seek the fundamental ideological foundation,and the protection of various cultural rights can be effective.After all,the practice of legal protection of minority cultural rights is the Marx theory of China,and ethnic equality is the core of Marx’s theory of nationalism,so the national equality should be the legal protection of the rights of national culture to solve the theoretical foundation of the core.This paper from the two aspects of legislation and practice pointed out that China’s achievements in the aspects of legal protection of minority cultural rights achievements and difficulties,and finally puts forward the cultural rights of ethnic minorities in Marx’s ethnic equality under the guidance of the legal protection of the specific path of perfect.