文学评奖从本质上来说属于文学评价制度，是文学制度理论的相关范畴。文学评奖通过奖项设置、评奖条例、获奖作品特征形成了自身整套机制体系，受文艺政策等官方意识形态、大众审美取向与文学需求的影响，在评选者一定的美学观念、批评标准和主张考量下，基于时代整体语境等特征，由特定的官方机构对已经出版发表的文学作品给出相对科学权威的排序与加冕。对于规约、引导当代写作范式、作家队伍培养、文学创作与批评作品的经典化具有重要意义。文学评奖利用文学生产机制所内含的遴选和评价功能，通过影响文学创作与批评的写作范式、传播机制与评价体系，以推动经典秩序的改写和重构乃至整体文学图景的更新。评奖系统通过对作品的筛选和过滤，将大量经典或者有可能成为经典的作品推了出来，利用文学奖声誉影响力的效应参与到文学经典化的进程中。由此不难看出，文学评奖机制与文学作品的经典化之间存在着千丝万缕的联系，为文学经典研究提供了新的思路和角度。

Literary awards essentially belong to the literary evaluation system, which is a related category of literary system theory. Literary awards have formed their own mechanism system through award settings, regulations and characteristics of awarded works, and are influenced by official ideology such as literary policies, public aesthetic orientation and literary needs. The official body will rank and crown the published literary works with relative scientific authority. It is important to regulate and guide the contemporary writing paradigm, the training of writers, and the classicization of literary creation and criticism. By using the selection and evaluation functions inherent in the literary production mechanism, literary prizes influence the writing paradigm, dissemination mechanism and evaluation system of literary creation and criticism, in order to promote the rewriting and reconstruction of the classical order and the renewal of the overall literary picture. Through the selection and filtering of works, the award system pushes out a large number of classics or works that have the potential to become classics, using the effect of the reputation influence of literary awards to participate in the process of literary classicization. It is easy to see that there is an inextricable link between the literary award mechanism and the classicization of literary works, which provides new ideas and perspectives for the study of literary classics.