文学的功用在于建构一种带有审美品质的生存形式,它是以审美为最高本质的语言艺术,为人类构建了一个异常广阔、超越于物质生存之外的精神空间。中国古典文学在审美的创造上可以说达到了极致,其意境是普遍而又永恒的。对于当代大学生来说,学习中国古典文学,能够从审美品格、素质修养、知识结构、情感层面等方面汲取无穷营养。 The function of literature is to construct a kind of living form with aesthetic qualities. It is based on the aesthetic art as the highest essence, building a spiritual space for mankind vastly beyond and beyond material existence. Chinese classical literature can be said to have reached an extreme in aesthetic creation, whose artistic conception is universal and eternal. For contemporary college students, learning Chinese classical literature can absorb infinite nutrition from aspects of aesthetic character, quality cultivation, knowledge structure and emotion level.