(The next chapter will be a big turning point, you can guess the answer in the book review, guess the prize, ask for votes and collect)

As netizens said, although the rhetoric is too affirmative, it reveals an inevitable problem in popular literature in every era.

Just like on the Internet, even though many people in the literary circle and netizens have a good evaluation of "Yue Nu Sword" and there are many hot discussions, but no mainstream media newspaper has evaluated and reported on "Yue Nu Sword", because this hundred schools of thought are issued by the Ministry of Culture, which has a strong political bias, and these mainstream cultural media do not dare to make relevant evaluation and reports on "Yue Nu Sword" and other popular literary works when they do not receive the specific news above, how dare they mess with the south, south, south, and northwest? In order to have a topic, some non-mainstream literary media newspapers and periodicals put "The Sword of the Yue Woman" and other popular literary works on it, either depreciating or praising it, and it is not painful.

Their works have been hyped by mainstream newspapers and periodicals such as "People's Daily" and "Five Thousand Years of Literature", such as "Revisiting the Classics", which temporarily ranks first in the overall list, and the author is a well-known old-timer in the literary world, the famous essayist Yu Qiuyu and so on.

Under this kind of polar difference in treatment, after a month-long voting and audition stage of hundreds of schools of thought, "Yue Nu Sword" firmly occupied the third place in the overall list and the first place in the novel category with nearly 480,000 votes.

The first stage of voting is over, and the literary circles and many netizens who pay attention to this essay have put their eyes on the second stage, the expert review panel. A total of 350 entries in seven categories will be reviewed by an expert review panel, and the top 20 works will be selected from these works, and the top five will be selected into the "Chinese Extracurricular Reading Guide for Middle School Students".

In the midst of such anticipation, the one-week expert review will be conducted at the National College Entrance Examination Paper Correction Center in Beijing, where the experts of the audit team will conduct a one-week closed audit management, with no contact from the outside world and no public media to know the results of the audit in advance.

Many netizens complained, isn't it just an essay review, why is it so grand and mysterious. The official response of the China Writers Association, which is responsible for this essay contest, is to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the review results, and not to disclose the review results in advance.

Soon, the second phase of the review began.

When a group of sub-experts cut off contact with the outside world to review the essay works, netizens from the outside world were also discussing which work could win what ranking. "Yue Nu Sword" is a widely acclaimed short martial arts work, and won the third place in the overall list in the first stage of the audition voting stage, and the topic is naturally high.

Some netizens threw out the topic - "Can "Yue Nu Sword" break the prejudice of the traditional literary world against popular literature and advance into the top five?"

The content of the post is roughly as follows;

"We all know that the traditional literary world has been regarded as orthodox in all dynasties because of the needs of politics and people's ideology, and the literary classification of popular literature came into being in order to enrich people's culture and life, and most of them are of a recreational nature. Because popular literature is mixed, most of it is dross, and there is little essence, so that the traditional cultural circles have always believed that popular literature is not literature and cannot be put on the stage, which is something that has existed for thousands of years, and is not unique to today."

In response to this topic, many netizens inside and outside the circle commented on it, with their own opinions, some agreeing and some not optimistic.

Some people who agreed: "China's top ten masterpieces "Water Margin" have been circulated to this day and are widely known, and it is also a prototype of martial arts literature.

Netizens who are not optimistic about this matter pointed out that the prejudice against popular literature in the traditional literary world has existed since ancient times, coupled with the political bias, "Yue Nu Sword" relies on its own strength, and it is difficult to break the prejudice. They also mentioned "Water Margin", saying that "Water Margin" can become one of China's four great masterpieces, although it has the shadow of martial arts literature, it is actually a historical work, and so on......

Netizens argued about this matter, which caused a lot of heat, and similarly, when the expert review team of hundreds of schools of thought reviewed the "Yue Nu Sword" for ranking, there was also a debate among the experts.

An expert led by Bai Qianshan, a famous professor of literature, believes that "Yue Nu Jian" is qualified to enter the top five and is qualified to enter the "Chinese Extracurricular Reading Guide for Middle School Students".

On the other hand, they are firmly opposed to this qualification ranking.

In a conference room, dozens of experts gather around a conference table, each with a computer and a pile of materials on the table in front of them.

"Professor Bai, "Yue Nu Sword" is just a martial arts novel, in your opinion, if you put it into the "Chinese Extracurricular Reading Guide for Middle School Students" and let students read it, why don't you just let them read a martial arts story?"

At this point, the argument is almost here.

"I don't know what you mean by always emphasizing that "Yue Nu Jian" is a martial arts novel, is it possible that martial arts novels only have stories and nothing else. At least "Yue Nu Sword" is different, the author will Wu Yue hegemony, Yue 3,000 soldiers to destroy Wu, Fan Li retired and other historical events and fictional stories together, true and false, false and true, and borrowed the story of Zhiwei, but also reproduces the allusion of "Xizi holds the heart", the literary factor is very rich, the story is also very exciting, but vulgar and elegant, enough to qualify for the top five. Another good work is that it can be universally accepted by the public, as evidenced by the first stage of this work. Bai Qianshan retorted with a stern face.

"I don't agree with Bai Lao saying this, good literary works should pay attention to the rigor of the work, since "The Sword of the Yue Woman" is based on the historical framework of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Wu and Yue hegemony, the history is rigorous, and it is a common creative technique for the author to fictionalize a suitable story to add in, which is normal. But the fictional story in "Yue Nu Sword" is too exaggerated, and the Ah Qing swordsmanship in it is simply deified, and one person and one bamboo can advance and retreat freely in the face of thousands of soldiers, which is simply a god descending from heaven and earth, too unrigorous. Moreover, the destruction of Wu by the Yue Kingdom in the book is that the swordsmen of the Yue Kingdom learned a little bit of Aqing's swordsmanship and defeated the Wu State, which is completely child's play. ”

Time flickered, and seven days passed.

At a time when the outside world was still eagerly discussing the results of the ranking of the 100 schools of thought, the Chinese Writers Association held a press conference and announced the final review results of the 38-day essay contest.

The results were announced, and "Yue Nu Sword" ranked sixth!