Sixteen years into the red network, I actually became an "internet celebrity"

This spring, I was named an "Original Talent" by the Rednet New Media Group. A certificate was sent, and with it, a bonus.

Last year, on the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of Rednet, I was also named an honorary netizen. In the past few years, it has also been rated as an excellent netizen of the red network continuously.

This is inseparable from the trust and recognition of the vast number of netizens, and it is also inseparable from their own persistence for many years. And, of course, thanks to the Rednet and this great era.

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This year, Rednet is twenty-one years old, checking my registration information on the forum, I found that I have been stationed for sixteen years.

Unconsciously, sixteen years have passed.

Sixteen years, long is not long, and short is not short.

When I was sixteen years old, I graduated from junior high school and left Xiangxi for the first time to study at the Hunan Mechanical and Electrical School in the Dongting Lake Plain.

That is to say, before I was sixteen years old, I never went out of Xiangxi, and Xiangxi raised me for sixteen years.

In the past sixteen years, under the care of my parents, I mainly studied and did farm work, and rarely went out.

Recall that except for the Baojing County nearest to my father's cottage, no large city has ever been.

It seems that in the spring of the sixteenth year, I had the honor of participating in the National Mathematics Competition for Middle School Students, and I first went to the county town of Yongshun, where my hometown belongs.

I remember the day of the game was April 1st, Sunday, at Yeongshun Ichi Junior High School.

At noon the day before, I came to Yongshun County from Zejia Town with three classmates and took a shuttle bus with a fare of ninety cents.

I was impressed with money because there was no money at that time.

After the preliminary examination for the competition, Teacher Zhang Kunren of the District Education Office saw that I had won the first place in the examination and specially sponsored five yuan, so I came to Yongshun County.

The three of us spent two five cents to stay one night at the county government guest house next to Yongshun No. 1 Middle School.

Thirty-two years have passed, and Teacher Zhang Kunren has also died of illness for many years. Over the years, whenever I wandered around Yongshun County, I unconsciously always thought of him.

Sixteen years later, I have come to work at the Hunan branch of the China News Service and have officially become a reporter for a state-level news agency.

In the past sixteen years, I have studied at Hunan Mechanical and Electrical School for four years. The first time I walked out of the mountains of western Hunan Province, I knew that there were mountains outside the mountains, there were plains, there were big rivers and lakes, and there was a horse flat river.

In the four years of secondary school, I have made many friends, gained a lot of friendships, and gained a lot of insights, especially in a foreign country, I also know that there is a Shen Congwen in my hometown.

It was precisely because of reading Mr. Shen Congwen's works that when I graduated, I decided to go to the outside world to see it, so I chose to come to Changsha and walked into the Changsha Boiler Factory.

I have been working as an electrician in the workshop for almost ten years in changsha boiler factory, and I have experienced the pain of state-owned enterprise reform, which is unforgettable.

Yes, when I went to Changsha to work, I found that the outside world was very exciting and helpless.

His work was included in his personal column.

The harsh reality at that time was that sometimes even wages could not be paid on a monthly basis. At that time, my younger siblings were studying, and they had to send money on time, no way, I worked during the day and worked at night.

Leave it, it is not easy to have a Changsha household registration, the unit is also a state-owned enterprise, iron rice bowl, lost or no courage.

Besides, even if I leave the state-owned enterprise in one breath, what can I do?

When Mr. Shen Congwen first arrived in Beijing, he also found that there was a big gap between ideals and reality, but he had to endure and insisted on surviving.

No matter how bad I was, I wasn't hungry at that time, so why didn't I learn to slowly strengthen myself?

In this way, I began to read seriously, reading Shen Congwen, reading Lu Yao, reading Liang Xiaosheng, reading Zhou Mason, reading Zhang Hongsen...

I imagine myself as Shen Congwen who has experienced hardships, or I think that sometimes it is Sun Shaoping in "Ordinary World"...

I gradually understood that all the setbacks and pains are actually the process of growth.

But, in the heavy life, I am depressed, I am miserable, I am wandering, I have something to say, there are emotions to be cathartic.

So I started writing: writing diaries, poems, letters, essays and radio manuscripts.

I studied mechatronics, and although I was the president of the literary club and the editor-in-chief of the school magazine in school, it was because I wrote sincerely and did not receive professional training.

Later, I read more books, read more, thought more, slowly imitated, and tried "I write therefore my heart", the more I write, the more natural it is.

Go with the flow, go with the flow.

This kind of nature is not arbitrary, and the "love" between the lines is everywhere. This is true of diaries, it is true of poetry, and it is true of radio transcripts.

Why do you always mention broadcast drafts? Because of the "high-rise buildings and flat ground", I relied on writing radio drafts in the company, and in 2006 I became a reporter for a national news agency.

I don't remember how many broadcasts I wrote at the Changsha Boiler Factory, and no one knows. In any case, the advanced workers and model workers of the factory seem to have written.

Writing gave me confidence and ultimately changed my destiny.

From the beginning of publishing in the factory, and then strive to be in the newspapers and magazines. The goal was set, and while I was writing seriously, I took the initiative to find someone to help.

It is also this initiative that on December 28, 2000, after the front page of "Boiler Strange Man Wang Xiaoqi" was published on the front page of Hunan Workers' Newspaper, my life took a turn for the better.

Soon, I went straight from being a workshop electrician to a secretary to a factory director. After a few more years of hard work, I decided to leave the business and go to the media, intending to make a living by writing articles.

Thank you for this great era, and thank you for the nobles who appear from time to time in your life. My dream really came true.

Honorary certificate issued by Rednet.

But news is news, and writing has specific requirements. So, where are the observations and insights outside the news published?

So, sixteen years ago, I chose to enter the RedNet Forum.

At that time, there were many platforms for us to choose from, such as tianya forum, Sina blog and so on.

Just as bachelors are free to choose to make love, I began to maintain a wait-and-see attitude towards the red network forum.

But I can't help but say that I think the name Rednet is very good.

Rednet is a key news website and comprehensive website of Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government.

Red is blood. Blood, blood, blood also. Red, crimson, Chinese red.

Red heart, red land, red culture, this red complex has always flowed in the blood of Chinese, inherited in our genes.

Hunan is Chairman Mao's hometown, and the red complex of Hunan people is self-evident.

So in retrospect, my entry into the red network forum was not an accident, but a color call, an inner yearning.

However, when I checked my registration information, I found that it was February 17, 2006, and the registered IP address was actually in Hengyang.

Screenshot of the personal page of the Reddit forum.

Could it be that I was interviewing in Hengyang at that time?

At first, I thought that I was writing the "Hengyang Chapter of the Investigation of New Rural Construction Hotspots in Hunan", but when I checked it today, I realized that this series of reports of more than 200,000 words was done in 2007.

In short, many things are not remembered. But no matter what, sixteen years ago, I officially entered the red net and became acquainted with the red net.

At the beginning, I didn't post many articles on the Red Internet, but more often I read, studied, and observed.

In the dazzling world of various Internet forums, I am observing the positioning of the red network, watching the popularity of the red network, and learning the articles of the red network.

Later, I found that the main author of the red network forum was in Hunan, and the main readers were Hunan nationals and people who paid attention to the development of Hunan.

In terms of content, the red network not only insists on spreading positive energy and carrying forward the core values of socialism, but also the report is very fresh and the column is grounded.

In the past sixteen years, I have witnessed the closure of many Internet forums, but the red network has always been very popular, and its popularity has always been very strong...

In the past 16 years, I have truly felt that the red net is truly "based on Hunan, serving Hunan, influencing Hunan, and spreading Hunan".

This is similar to my positioning of my own writing. The slight difference is that the place where I mainly write is Xiangxi, and I come from Xiangxi and know, understand and love my hometown.

About five or six years ago, I decided to increase my contribution to the RedNet. While submitting articles and interacting, I do not seek to become a hot spot, writing and making friends such as drinking tea, you have to "cold water to make tea slowly thicken".

Unconsciously, the "Father's Cottage" and "Hunan Impression" series I wrote were on fire, with more and more messages, more and more popularity, and more and more friends.

Later, I posted a series of articles on the Red Net Forum on the Declaration of The World Geopark in Xiangxi and the Tracing of Mr. Shen Congwen's Footprints.

What I didn't expect was that the editor of the red network forum also made a personal column for me, bringing together many articles and being loved by the majority of netizens.

Screenshot of the RedNet column page.

In the past few years, my reading popularity on the red network forum has exceeded one million every year, thanks to the editor's warm recommendation, thank you for the netizens to leave messages.

Nowadays, on the red network forum, I have a lot of messages at the end of each article, some dozens, some hundreds...

In particular, there were as many as 2823 articles in Mr. Zeng Guofan's hometown, which was enough for me to read for half a month. Unfortunately, my energy was limited, and I didn't reply to them one by one, so I apologize.

It is no exaggeration to say that sixteen years have passed, I have become an "internet celebrity" on the red network, and many readers have become friends in life with me, touched, grateful, grateful.

It is worth mentioning that my rednet name does not use a real name, but is called "I came from Xiangxi".

Screenshot of zeng guofan's hometown article published on the red network.

Yes, Xiangxi is my hometown, and the most written articles I have published on the Red Internet are still Xiangxi.

I lived in Xiangxi for sixteen years, which is the same time as when I was on the RedNet. But these sixteen years have affected a lifetime, Xiangxi is, and so is the red net.

Now, I have walked out of Xiangxi for a full thirty-two years, and perhaps, this kind of walking out is just a walk out of the hukou and place of residence, but my heart is always worried.

Interestingly, the year I joined the RedNet, I was just thirty-two years old.

I was an idealist at that time, believing that "if the heart is there, the dream is there", believing that if there is a dream, there is a future, and believing in the power of perseverance.

I'm forty-eight years old and still believe this. Believe in being down-to-earth, believe in the way of heaven to reward diligence, and believe that everything is man-made.

Interestingly, when I entered the red network sixteen years ago, I, a Yongshun person, was registered in Hengyang.

Sixteen years later, in the revitalization of Hunan's rural areas, Hengyang City's counterpart is actually my hometown of Yongshun County.

The sun of Hengyang is the "yang" of the sunshine avenue; the smoothness of yongshun is the "shun" of eternal smoothness.

It's a no-coincidence.

Text/Liu Ming