Nowadays, the construction of new liberal arts is facing the educational responsibility of “building a liberal arts talent training system that can reach the world level and has Chinese characteristics”, which undoubtedly puts forward higher new requirements for the teaching of colleges and universities. Therefore, the first thing colleges and universities need to do is to consolidate the curriculum system, grasp the curriculum construction, and continue to promote the curriculum teaching content update to better respond to the new liberal arts construction requirements. However, under the background of the new liberal arts, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, as a compulsory core professional course for Chinese major students in colleges and universities, still has some problems in its teaching, such as reduced class time arrangement, poor learning enthusiasm of students, and single choice of course teaching content. Based on this, this paper puts forward the teaching reform strategy of “literature +”, aiming at cultivating a group of composite applied talents who are more in line with the requirements of the new liberal arts construction, hoping to provide some references for your peers.