Chapter 879: Listening to you is better than reading ten years of books
It was almost 12 o'clock, and Ou Quanquan knocked on the door again and came in, asking Fang Minghua to come down for dinner.
The place to eat was in the restaurant on the third floor of the hotel. Ou Quanquan asked for a private room and asked: "Chairman Fang, our Hunan food is quite spicy. I wonder if you can get used to it?"
"It doesn't matter, we people in Qin Province also eat spicy food."
"That's good." Ou Quanquan ordered a few Hunan dishes.
They ordered fish head with chopped pepper, spicy chicken, Mao's braised pork, and fried seasonal vegetables with oil residue. They also ordered soup and white rice, and opened a bottle of local Shaoyang Daqu. The two of them chatted while eating.
"Chairman Fang, Chairman Han must have told you why I am looking for you. I would like to hear your views on online literature."
Fang Minghua did not answer directly but asked instead: "Do you know the two literary websites, Huanjian Shumeng and Qidian.com?"
Ou Quanquan was stunned for a moment and then said: "I know, Huanjian Shumeng is a large-scale online literature website. It mainly publishes fantasy and fairy novels. It has a great influence among online readers. The starting point is similar to Huanjian, but it is established It’s relatively late, small in scale and has little impact.”
"How do these two compare with "Under the Banyan Tree"?" Fang Minghua asked again.
"It's incomparable! No matter the size of the website, the literary quality of the articles published, or its status in the minds of readers, it can't be compared with Under the Banyan Tree!"
There is nothing wrong with what Ou Quanquan said.
Today's "Under the Banyan Tree" is no longer the literary website it was in history. In the prosperous era of literature, it continued to "burn money" and has become a leader in domestic online original literature.
Three consecutive online original literature contests have been held, and the website has gathered a group of outstanding online authors, such as Li Xunhuan, Jin He Zai, Jiang Nan, Murong Cunxue, Annie Baby, etc.
What's more important is that these people have relatively strong literary foundation, and many novels published online have been published offline as physical books.
Therefore, Under the Banyan Tree is called “the online literature website closest to real literature.”
"Then, which do you think is the future or development direction of online literature, between Under the Banyan Tree and Fantasy Sword Book Alliance, or the starting point?" Fang Minghua asked another question.
"I think it's the former, under the banyan tree!" Ou Quanquan answered decisively.
Fang Minghua shook his head: "You are wrong, it's the latter."
"The latter?!"
"Yes, it's the latter. If you think it's the former, then you don't really understand online literature." Fang Minghua finished speaking and took a bite of food.
Ou Quanquan was surprised and then fell into deep thought.
After a while, Ou Quanquan said again: "Chairman Fang, you are right. Let's put it down for now. Let me ask another question."
"Oh, you mean?" "Online literature, that's the word, what do you understand?" Ou Quanquan asked.
Fang Minghua smiled after hearing this, and then said: "I understand what you mean. At first glance, the word "Internet Literature" is a noun or noun phrase with a positive structure. "Internet" is the modifying component, and "literature" is the main component. Wrong? ”
"Yes, that's what I think."
"Actually, this kind of thinking is at work subconsciously, because people have been accustomed to reading literary works in paper texts for a long time. If you change your perspective and regard the "network" as the subject, you will have a new perspective and understanding: Internet literature , that is, literature that belongs to the "network" rather than literature on "paper". The network has a certain subjective meaning here. ”
"Do you think so?" Ou Quanquan was as surprised as the first question when he heard Fang Minghua's point of view, and thought: "According to your understanding, singing and singing literature was prevalent in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, as the literary basis for the art of "speaking" ——Huaben novels became popular. ”
"Talking" generally pays attention to vivid plots, popular language, sonorous intonation, and changeable rhythm. The speaker has a clear attitude and full of hospitality. Therefore, the number and narrative skills of "speaking" are all reflected in the script. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it became popular to engrave books in folk bookstores. "All the narratives described are not the talk created by Taoist priests since the Song Dynasty, but they are the thoughts of the people in the alleys. They are messy and crude, and their effectiveness is not appreciable. However, its power to affect people's hearts is very great, or maybe If some literati came up to collect and polish it, it would also be the embryo of a great work." That is to say, different printing technologies and different printing subjects also have different influences and restrictions on the theme content and language of the book? ! ”
Ou Quanquan seemed to understand something and was thoughtful.
"Yes, after the rise of the modern newspaper industry, literary journals and newspaper supplements have become the most important place for the publication of literary works, and they are also the material form in which these literary works are born and exist."
Fang Minghua added: "The tabloid newspapers and periodicals that became popular at the end of the 19th century directly and powerfully promoted the rise of modern popular novels, leading to the emergence of a publication-centered literary era in China. Newspaper supplements had a direct influence on stylistic forms. and unique impact.”
"According to your point of view, Lu Xun's short essays were written to meet the needs of supplements?! In other words, if there were no newspaper supplements as a carrier in Lu Xun's time, Lu Xun's essays would not have appeared?!"
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"You can think so." Fang Minghua smiled slightly.
“The Internet enables the preservation and dissemination of novels and poems to get rid of tangible media such as type and paper. It can carry a huge amount of text and information at a very low cost and spread it quickly, providing authors with the ability to quickly generate massive amounts of text. Convenient conditions for text information”
The meal lasted for two hours before it was over. At the end, Ou Quanquan sighed and said, "Listening to you is really better than ten years of reading. If I had contacted you earlier, I would have avoided many detours. Chairman Fang, I Here’s to you.”
Ou Quanquan held up the wine glass respectfully, and Fang Minghua followed suit, and the two of them drank it down in one gulp.
In fact, Fang Minghua still has many questions that he has not said:
For example: The Internet only seeks instantaneous consumption at this moment, but literature must point to eternity. "Reading screens" is a symbolic form of desire. Human beings long for "poetic dwelling" here. Will the digital existence of literature and art change the human mind? The construction of beauty?
Furthermore, the Internet has brought literature down from the altar, creating a new folk fairy tale in which "everyone can be a writer." However, while the Internet lowers the threshold of literature, how can we ensure that online literature does not lose its value commitment and the support of aesthetic logic?
The Internet penetrates literary production with weightless "bits", thus making all literary conventions lose weight. Its formatting of printed literature has easily replaced the existence mode of literature in the field of media studies, but why in the field of spiritual phenomenology? The meaning is full of flaws and cannot be questioned?...
In fact, after 20 years of development of online literature, there is still no clear answer or solution.
After the meal, Ou Quanquan said again: "Minghua, I am going to rethink the views I wrote based on what we talked about today, so I decided to co-author this paper in the name of both of us."< br>
"No, don't" Fang Minghua quickly refused. I'm just saying my opinion, which may not be correct. If you think it's appropriate, feel free to use it, but don't involve me. ”
"That's so embarrassing."
"Nothing to be embarrassed about."
(End of chapter)