Abstract: Literature of a large country needs to reflect its own identity and maintain a classical approach so as to encourage and sustain innovation. Having experienced one-century's westernization, Chinese literary theory should review its spiritual value orientation, walk out of the blind westernization and reexamine its own identity in the public image era from a cultural angle of "approaching the classics". In the transformation from the sinicization of western literary theory to the internationalization of Chinese literary theory, we should be concerned with the synchronicity of both the cultural innovation and the literary theory innovation in order to conserve the integrity and innovate in the manner of -"approaching the classics" and "innovating the classics".