Abstract:This paper discusses in the pursuit of spirit and method of characteristics of teaching "Contemporary Chinese Literature", one of basic courses of department of Chinese language and literature.,. The article emphasizes the rich spiritual connotation implies the development of contemporary Chinese literature , highlighting the deep correlation between the world literature and ancient Chinese literature with a long history , and explains of the importance of "problem awareness" and emotional experience in the process of literature teaching,opposing of planary and monotonous knowledge introduction。