Teachers and friends believe that instead of languishing on the fork in the road of love, Yuan Qiuhua should turn back and embark on the journey of his career, take the lead bravely, and fight for a broad world. persuaded Yuan Qiuhua to return to her old business, in short, she hoped that she would correct the runway, pick up her dreams, and continue to write online articles. But as a senior literary youth, Yuan Qiuhua witnessed the rise and fall of "under the banyan tree". She is faced with a choice, whether to stick to your simple but noble, simple and elegant artistic ideals, or to be willing to compromise with reality and convert art into a fashionable business of equivalent exchange?

Under the Banyan Tree, the global Chinese original works network originated from a personal homepage created by William Chu, a Chinese-American in 1997. In 1999, Shanghai Rongshuxia Computer Co., Ltd. was established, and the website was officially put into operation. In 2000, the "Death Diary" of cancer patient Lu Youqing was exclusively published, which aroused deep thinking about the true meaning of life in the whole society. In 2001, the book "The Last Declaration of War" by AIDS patient Li Jiaming was published under the banyan tree, which made more young people begin to think about the meaning and value of life. So far, people in many countries across the country and even in the world have paid attention to "under the banyan tree".

As the originator of online literature, "Under the Banyan Tree" has made ordinary people's literary dreams come true, and has also made many little people become cultural idol labels, such as, Baby Anne, Han Han, Guo Jingming, Jin Hezai, Rao Xueman, etc., and has gathered a group of highly influential writers in the Chinese literary world, such as Li Xunhuan, Ning Caishen, Xing Yusen, Cai Jun, Murong Xuecun, Bu Feiyan, etc.

To summarize briefly, there were only two types of users under the banyan tree in the early days, literary authors and forum fans.

First of all, love literature, because literature comes to the author under the banyan tree. Under the banyan tree in the early days, there was a high-end club for the post-70s and post-80s generations who opened their hearts and longed to be understood. In Hong Kong in 96, because of the collection of materials for writing books, Yuan Qiuhua came into contact with computers, at that time it was still DOS 6.22 and windows 3.2 operating system, there are also word and excel templates, disk copying, Kingsoft input method typing, but writing articles is more than 10,000 times more convenient and faster than pen and paper, she spent 5,000 yuan to buy an HP 486 notebook. At the end of the 90s, there was a saying in society: driving, English, and computers are the three golden keys to open the new century. The monthly salary of citizens is generally only three or four hundred yuan, but an ordinary computer costs four or five thousand yuan, which is a luxury. Even if it is necessary for work, only the head of government, the financial sector, training institutions, and colleges and universities purchase office computers. However, with the rise of the Internet, urban parents, in order to save money for their children not to fall behind in the competition in the future, still send their children to learn these three skills. In 2000, Yuan Qiuhua bought a domestic notebook in Zhongguancun, Tsinghua Tongfang's Lenovo, Pentium processor, WDS98 system. There is a computer, there is an internet cable, and you can access the Internet at any time. Under the banyan tree used to be the website that Yuan Qiuhua opened when he started the machine. In the first two years, she would go up every day to read the words of Baby Anne, Ning Caishen, Li Xunhuan, Xing Yusen, Cai Jun, Jin Hezai, Murong Xuecun, Mu Zimei and others, and after forming a habit, it gradually became a part of life.

Later, in the class of Lu Academy, Yuan Qiuhua listened to the famous writer, editor-in-chief of the journal, and the professor of Peking University talk about the banyan tree, talk about online articles, and discuss Han Han, Mu Zimei, Guo Jingming, and Baby Anne between classes. Teachers believe that online literature will not become the mainstream, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance, and there are very few excellent works. Internet literature is popular literature, and its basic form is genre fiction. Yuan songs, Ming and Qing novels, and the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School of the Republic of China were all popular literature at the beginning. The popularization and popularization of modern literature in the liberated areas has become an important criterion. Qiong Yao's romance, Jin Yong, and Liang Yusheng's martial arts are basically popular literature. Market demand determines the form of entertainment, and existence is reasonable. The rapid rise of online literature is only because it adapts to the appreciation and cultural needs of the general public with the citizen class as the main body, which has confirmed that online literature is popular literature. In the market, popular literature may have a considerable share, not only in China but also in foreign countries, but the value of traditional literature will not be replaced.

There are also differences of opinion among the elders. At the beginning, any literature appears in the form of entertainment. The society we live in will only become more and more tolerant, and the freedom to let all voices be heard freely and echoed has gradually become a consensus among people. Online literature is very immature, but it is thriving. The bike is able to move forward without falling because of the power. As long as this development trend is maintained, it will mature sooner or later, and there will also be a big wave of sand, removing the false and retaining the true, and removing the bad and retaining the essence. As for the rise and fall of the economy, the impact on online literature is not too great, art can flourish in the prosperous era, and it can also flourish in war, and only the creator himself can influence him. Real life will only affect the creator's income, not the creator's work, the good will be good, the bad will be bad, the classics will always be born, and they can't be stopped.

In the eyes of the students, Internet literature is a daily pastime reading, a kind of entertainment activity that students like to play when they have nothing to do. With the popularization of computers and the Internet, all walks of life, as long as you have the Internet, you can create. The creative motivation of online writers is actually relatively simple, and most of them are just to write the stories they want to express. Because of their different industries, campus stories and fantasy stories created by students are more popular among school students, workplace struggle stories created by white-collar workers are more resonant with white-collar workers, and mother-in-law struggles and parents' shortcomings written by housewives are like soap operas, so that readers who have a common experience can experience them.

In addition to public speeches, students also have a sense of joy and happiness in the comments on online literature, and everyone whispers in private, absolutely not wanting to be known by the teacher. On the Internet, everyone is equal, and literary creation on the Internet is also the equality of all beings. Online, authors are free to publish their work as they please, without any restrictions, and no longer need to be endorsed by certain experts or editors. Li Xunhuan said everyone's thoughts: "The father of Internet literature is the Internet, and the mother is literature. The most valuable thing in online literature is the spiritual connotation of the 'Internet father'--- freedom and equality. Freedom, not only the freedom to write, but also the freedom to write, equality, the Internet does not believe in authority, there is no authority, everyone has the right to express their feelings equally. "He was so precise that his classmates admired him and envied him. Online writing is more "non-utilitarian" required by artistic creation, and therefore, it is "purer and more real".

Students also generally have a very serious psychological disorder, that is, it is difficult to accept the deletion and alteration of works by "vulgar" editors. We lost our mobile wallet keys, we didn't care too much about food and no room. There was once a thief patronized the dormitory of the Luyuan Academy, stolen eight laptops, we didn't blink, the first reaction was just whether the manuscript in the computer was backed up? Immediately take the U disk to the computer reading room to check, the manuscript is there, read "Amitabha" thank the Bodhisattva for blessing, the recent new manuscript is not prepared, immediately furious, cursed the thief went out and was hit by a car, ran away and fell into the sewer. Fei Sicun, who disappeared with the computer and USB flash drive, fainted directly. Every thing she did when she woke up was to call an acquaintance at the publishing house, magazine, or newspaper that had sent the printed manuscript, and asked in a trembling voice: Is my manuscript still there? Please, help me find it quickly! No one is wrong, it's just a computer, and a USB flash drive, it's stolen, please, you must find it! It doesn't matter if you don't use it, as long as the manuscript is returned to me, I will treat you to a big meal!

Maybe it's biased, the editors are all good for others, and the articles are good for themselves. When we find that a published book or article is missing a paragraph, a few sets of modifiers have been changed, or the opening sentence has been deleted, the closing sentence has been cut, or even the order of the chapters has been adjusted, we will be angry with the editor-in-charge. Whenever the editor's incompetence is mentioned, everyone criticizes "being a good teacher", "being self-righteous", and "pretending to be smart", because the editor thinks that the change is better, but we feel that it has been changed, and it is worse. They revise our essays, just like a teacher corrects a student's homework, if it is a writer and editor, it is a big brother or sister in the literary world, and we understand and believe in its literary level and screening level.

If they are younger than us, who have a background than us, and who enter through the back door by relying on their connections, as long as they look at the low-level books they admire, push, and advocate, or cultural garbage, we will know how low their ability to discriminate, how vulgar their tastes, and how superficial their opinions are. Because of their status, they also like to instruct others on how to write, especially like to speak and discuss, and talk to the media in a demeanor, believing that they are the only high-quality cultural elites and the representatives of the masters of the first literary quality. Although we couldn't get used to it, we endured it. If you take advantage of our work to point us out, cut down the humane compassion, and reduce the meaning of responsibility, I'm sorry, we will be indignant: You can mix diplomas and eat mixed food, please don't tarnish literature, blaspheme readers, and humiliate authors. Have you gone abroad to stay abroad? You are an imbecile in the face of the new trend of thought! Have you read the Four Books, the Five Classics, and the Twenty-Four History? You are a layman in front of the old traditions! You grew up in Western cartoons, Oriental comics, and Hong Kong and Taiwan romance dramas, have you been chasing Korean dramas recently? We admit that you will be vulgar in love, either the male protagonist is sick and missing, or the female protagonist has lost her memory in a car accident, and then it happens that her parents obstruct it, and her daughter makes trouble, so you have all kinds of misunderstandings, all kinds of sadness, and finally spend a good moon. We are sure that you will make a false confession, N men revolve around the heroine, and the heroine revolves around N foreigners, so all kinds of tricks to show off your wealth, all kinds of hedonic routines, you can play handy. In fact, you play literature for fun, you play games for self-entertainment, you look for excitement now, and you will look for death in the future! You cultural broker, you don't know how to pretend to know how to play literature, you can only make deals to gain fame and profit, why bother making paste? Get out of the literary circle!

Honestly. Just as the urban people who have not braved the scorching sun and shed tears in the fields cannot truly appreciate the hard-won food, it is difficult for laymen who have not experienced the tempering of writing to imagine the hardships and loneliness, they despise the national values cultivated by traditional ancient texts, have no sense of superiority and suffering, no compassion, no humane spirit, and ignore the theoretical literacy of modern culture, do not understand the aesthetics of literature and art, are unwilling to contact the toiling masses, only pay attention to the joy of oneself, and will not understand the social significance behind the fairness and justice pursued by orthodox writers, and the sense of historical mission of consciously assuming literary and artistic responsibilities。 Yuan Qiuhua remembers his works clearly, which page was deleted and which word and which sentence, and he still can't wait to find out the roots.