Archival TV programs can be divided into four categories：documentary, historical disclosure, investigation and interview,and cultural emotion. The popularity of cultural and emotional TV programs, such as“Letters alive”and“The Reader”reflects to some extent the changes in social and cultural awareness and emotional needs of the times. In addition to the basic memory construction function,archival TV programs can also be regarded as a special social memory representation system. From the collective and individual levels, public emotional value can be constructed on the way of the social reproduction,and the construction process is embodied in the selection of archival content sources,the creation of archival program scenes and the emotional reproduction of public participation experience.