Chapter 127: The Mandarin Society
When the physical book of "First Close Contact" sold millions of copies, QQ also announced that the number of online users exceeded the 100,000 mark at the same time, and even Huaguo's largest circulation newspaper, Huaguo People's Daily, published the news. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The media shouted that the Internet era has arrived.
In the same month, QQ announced that it had reached a cooperation with Huaguo Mobile Monternet to jointly launch the "Mobile New Life", and the first batch of 10,000 STK cards were embedded in the mobile QQ menu.
QQ has become the No. 1 instant messaging software in China in terms of the number of users and the number of people online at the same time.
Under the influence of each other, the sales of "The First Close Contact" have been hot again and again.
At this time, Ye Qiu also received an invitation letter from Wenhua Publishing House, inviting Ye Qiu to participate in this year's Wenhua Conference.
The Wenhua Conference has gone through ten years, and this year is the 10th Wenhua Conference, which has gradually developed from a meeting of signed writers under Wenhua Publishing House to an important event in the Chinese cultural circles.
From the beginning of only a few people to participate, now, almost all the top writers and poets are invited, and it has become a kind of vane in the cultural world, and many writers are proud to receive invitations from the Wenhua Club.
At the beginning, the Wenhua Club was only initiated by the Wenhua Publishing House, and gradually with the rise of the influence of the Wenhua Club, more and more cultural associations have joined it to jointly organize, and it has today's momentum.
The Wenhua Club was attended not only by well-known writers and poets, but also by many cultural celebrities.
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Wenhua Meeting, Ye Qiu originally didn't want to participate much, he never thought of himself as a literati and ink writer, but it was difficult for Wenhua Publishing House to be enthusiastic, and he repeatedly called to invite Ye Qiu to participate.
If it is said that a writer is not popular by the number of sales, then Ye Qiu is undoubtedly the most popular writer this year.
Even, the sales of one of Ye Qiu's novels are beyond the reach of many traditional writers who write books in their lifetimes.
Of course, the literary and artistic circles or the cultural circles have never been based on this.
However, in any case, sales are the most intuitive reflection of whether a writer is popular or not, especially with the rapid development of the economy, various industries are showing commercialization, and the same is true for the writers' circle.
Take the film and television industry as an example, maybe the works of big commercial directors will be devalued by those in the literary and artistic circles, but it is undeniable that the influence of commercial films is far from being comparable to literary films.
Whether the literary and artistic circles recognize it or not, they can't ignore this.
For Wenhua Publishing House, the most intuitive way to measure whether a writer has potential and value is naturally in the sales volume of his works.
The person who received Ye Qiu was Mo Ran, the editor-in-chief of the Wenhua Club.
"Every time I see Mr. Ye, I always feel that I am old. Mo Ran had already met Ye Qiu before, but as Mo Ran said, every time he saw Ye Qiu, he would have a feeling that he was old.
Editor-in-Chief Mo laughed. Ye Qiu touched his nose and said helplessly.
After Mo Ran brought Ye Qiu into the venue, he still had the task of reception, so he couldn't accompany Ye Qiu.
In the main hall of the venue, there were already many writers and literati from all over the country. Ye Qiu almost didn't know each other, and no one paid attention to Ye Qiu's arrival, everyone chatted with each other, Ye Qiu randomly found a table with a vacant seat and sat over.
"Who is this little brother?"
Seeing Ye Qiu sit down, several writers at the same table glanced at Ye Qiu in surprise, and one of them asked in surprise, in fact, it is no wonder that these people are surprised, on the one hand, because Ye Qiu is too young, the Wenhua Club is a very influential cultural event in China, but it is relatively rare for young people to be qualified to participate, and it is even more obvious in the traditional writers' circle, so Ye Qiu, a young man, can come here, which naturally makes them a little surprised, and what is even more surprising is that they don't know Ye Qiu.
"My name is Ye Qiu. Ye Qiu said with a smile.
"Ye Qiu, are you Ye Qiu?" Hearing Ye Qiu's self-introduction, a middle-aged man at the same table looked Ye Qiu up and down and asked.
Ye Qiu was a little dazed, but he still nodded.
"That Ye Qiu from 'First Close Contact'?" the middle-aged writer asked again.
"Yes. Ye Qiu nodded again.
What made Ye Qiu a little puzzled was that when he saw Ye Qiu admit that he was the author of "The First Close Contact", the other writers at the same table who were still a little puzzled looked at Ye Qiu with a little change in their eyes.
"Before you came, we were talking about your novel, which is said to have sold a million copies, right?" one writer asked.
"Pretty much. Ye Qiu nodded again.
"Originally, I was delighted that there were new young talents in the writers' circle, and I even went out of my way to buy a novel of yours to read ......," the middle-aged writer said.
Ye Qiugang wanted to speak, but heard the middle-aged writer say again: "But, I can't read it anymore after just reading a little, is the words in your book too arbitrary?"
"It's more casual, is there a problem with this?" Ye Qiu frowned slightly and asked.
In the past, it was said that literati were light, and Ye Qiu's level was low at that time, so he couldn't feel it, but at this moment, the other party's appearance of preaching and criticism made Ye Qiu a little unhappy.
"Of course, there is a problem, literature is rigorous, what is the writer writing for, in addition to satisfying his own interests, more is to carry the Tao in writing. The so-called carrying the Tao is to convey a correct thought. When I look at your novels, the text is free and arbitrary. However, many of the ideas in it are also too casual, and even some of the three views are not correct, we usually chat well, how can they appear in the book, adults are fine, but what if they are minors? Some incorrect concepts affect them, such as the use of words and grammar, you are casual for a while, but it is likely to affect the reader, so that they mistakenly think that it is correct. ”
"Then do you still think it's okay to use words casually?" The middle-aged writer looked at Ye Qiudao with a serious face.
Several other writers echoed the middle-aged writer's words.
Ye Qiu's heart was full of fire, and before Ye Qiu could speak, the middle-aged writer said: "Let me ask you again, what is your purpose in writing this novel? What kind of connotation do you want to express through this novel?"
"Huh. Ye Qiu suddenly laughed, but because when it came to the purpose and what kind of thoughts he wanted to express, Ye Qiu thought of his previous life, the post-80s writer Han Han, whose works appeared in the reading comprehension of the college entrance examination, and one of the topics was, intercept a passage in the text, and then ask, what does the author want to express in this sentence?
As a result, the original author's answer was thousands of miles away from the standard answer, and Han Han himself laughed and said that the person who published the volume understood better than himself what he thought when he wrote that paragraph.