Abstract: The construction of the classical literature is a kind of exclusive action about appraising the literature works.It is always argued which should be the classic because of the difference of understanding.The original drive is that individual aesthetic command should meet general agreement.The drive of political power,the choice of intellectuals,and the judgment of mass media are three of the most common ways to construct the classical literature.Nowadays,as an opposite expressive power to language,figure is a new force suddenly coming to the fore.Therefore,the central position of language and classical literature has been lowered.The thinking of consumer culture has made the classical literature become only empty consumer goods and the object of being ridiculed.The question that if the culture center is legal has removed the basis of the existence of classical literature,also has played the elegy for classical literature.

Key words: classical literature, the construction of the classic, prospect