The current new round of scientific and technological revolution is bringing about the transformation of the traditional humanities research paradigm, and the emerging "digital humanities" has given birth to the "new liberal arts". As a common methodology for many humanities, digital humanities has unique advantages in breaking disciplinary barriers and promoting interdisciplinary integration. It can provide new ideas and new models for cultivating liberal arts talents with Chinese characteristics required by the new era.This paper systematically sorts out how digital humanities upgrades and innovates traditional humanities’ thinking paradigms, research methods, and education models in the current social environment. At the same time ,we discussed the necessity and feasibility of the construction of digital humanities under the background of the construction of new liberal arts, and proposes the discipline construction path of digital humanities from the four aspects, discipline positioning, discipline team, talent training, and discipline base, in order to provide reference for related research in our country.