In the era of war in China, because of the separation of the two places, Li Shoumin's first love fell to fireworks in Liu Lane for his livelihood, which became his lifelong pain, until he later met Bai Fumei Sun Jingxun, and the two came together after many difficulties. In 1932, Li Shoumin began to write novels, hesitating on the choice of pen name, Sun Jingxun said: "Shoumin, I know that you have a building in your heart, where there is a bead (first love Wenzhu), so let's use the owner of the zhulou as a pen name." Since then, the Chinese literary circle has given birth to a magical novel "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan Mountain", which has created a precedent for xianxia novels.
In 1989, Taiwan newspapers stopped the martial arts column, Huang Yiqi, however, resigned from the Hong Kong Museum of Art and paid a high salary, lived in Lantau Island, a place with deep mountains and hidden winds and waters, concentrated on martial arts creation, starting from the first work that discussed martial arts and heavenly path, "Broken Void", Huang Yi was intoxicated in the world of martial arts creation, and in 1994, the first episode of "In Search of Qin" was published, opening a new era of cross-flowing martial arts novels. The manuscript became a lead character, popular on both sides of the strait and three places, and was also hand-typed by Hong Kong students on the Internet, popular in the mainland website Jin Yong Inn, Hong Kong album distribution, forum updates are slow, torment waiting, fans began to write their own books, "In Search of Qin", "The Great Sword Master" also created a precedent for harem stallion.
Huang Yi
In 1997, Lawson, a student of the department of Chinese of Ming Chuan University, began to serialize "The Story of Wind and Posture" on the BBS of Taiwan Jiaotong University, which lasted for nearly 10 years and ended in January 2006, with a total word count of more than 5.2 million. This book can be said to be the originator of online novels, a landmark work, which has influenced many online novel authors, such as Old Pig, Xiao Ding, Wild Fox under the Tree and Jiangnan, because the Internet in early China was not popular, and the serial time was too long, missing the name of the first novel of the network network.
In 1998, "If I had ten million, I could buy a house." Do I have ten million? No, so I still don't have a house. When Cai Zhiheng, who took the name of Cai Zi, typed these words on the keyboard, he did not know that he had created the history of the Internet, And China's first online novel, "The First Intimate Contact", was born, and many people knew through this novel that they were a rookie, knew about perfume rain, and even the terrible lupus erythematosus.
Soon this novel spread on the Internet, was imitated by many people, on the Tianya forum a post called Ning Caishen "Countless Intimate Contacts" also began to catch fire, the person who wrote this post was originally named Chen Wanning, 22 years old into the futures trading market, lost 3 million funds, fell down to begin to engage in code word career, was pulled into the banyan tree by the Chinese-American Zhu William, formed in the era at that time, can even be called the entire Internet literary world "troika". Among them, Li Xunhuan, Ning Caishen, Xing Yusen, the first generation of Chinese internet writers, the "troika" under the banyan tree, plus the four anne babes, can be called the "four major killers" under the banyan tree, their popularity at that time, it can be said that for a long time dominated the entire Chinese Internet literature world.
Li Xunhuan, Ning Caishen, Xing Yusen
Li Xunhuan became famous in one fell swoop with "Lost in The Love in the Network", Ning Caishen's "Wulin Wai Biography" was extremely popular, Xing Yusen's early works may be little known, but when it comes to his screenwriter's "Family with Children" and "Northeast Family", it must be very familiar, and the Xing Catcher who is impressed by everyone in "Wulin Wai Biography" is the prototype of him. The impression that Baby Anne has left on the reader has always been a strange woman with a distinct personality and perennial wandering, Guo Jingming before entering the banyan tree, because he liked Baby Anne too much, in order to see her, he once sneaked to the office under the banyan tree, and the style of later works caused countless controversies, and it was not difficult to see the shadow of some Baby Anne.
Baby Anne and her work
As the pioneer of Chinese Internet literature, Banyan Tree created the first batch of popular writers on the Internet. For example, Li Xunhuan, Ning Caishen, Xing Yusen, Baby Anne, Han Han, Guo Jingming, Murong Xuecun (representative works: "Chengdu, please forget me tonight", "Forgive me for the red dust upside down", "Heaven to the left, Shenzhen to the right") and so on.
On January 22, 2000, the 99 Network Original Literary Works Awards Ceremony hosted by the Banyan Tree Global Chinese Original Works Website was held at the Shanghai Centre Theatre, and the first prize in the novel category was Shang Ailan's "Small Hotel in the Sexy Era", and the second prize was Lao Gu's "I Fell in Love with the Woman Who Sat in The RestlessNess" and MIKKO's "Hero's Age". Perhaps she is not familiar with shang ailan, who is the first place, and her daughter Jiang Fangzhou is more famous. In addition to the traditional writers Wang Anyi, Wang Shuo, Ah Cheng, Yu Hua, Chen Cun, etc. who served as judges, there were also writers such as Ye Xin, Chen Danyan, and Xu Lan, and online literature was finally accepted by traditional literature.
Jiang Fangzhou
In the same year, the Internet bubble came, and many small websites did not survive. Web fiction also had a bit of a low point in the year. College student Zeng Yu also entered the trough of life, because he ran to protest the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, was expelled by the boss who lacked patriotic enthusiasm, became an unemployed vagrant, surfed the Internet all day with nothing to do, watched Ma Boyong, bandit me sicun, and what Caitou wrote, felt that he was OK, so he gave himself a net name "Where is now", began to code words on the Internet, this year was born known as the "first book on the Internet" "Wukong Biography", I believe that many people are interested in "I want this day, I can't cover my eyes again, I want this place, I can't bury my heart anymore, I want all sentient beings to understand my intentions, and I want all the Buddhas to disappear! This sentence is very familiar. Later, for a teenager named "Jiangnan" painted an ideal world of Kyushu, began more than ten years of love and killing, even the love queen bandit I Sicun also sighed, she once wrote so many stories of sadistic love, but it has never been as good as the reality of Jiangnan and where it is now.
In 2000, suiyuan, red dust, water spirit (flowing water), May sky (May), Weid, five young people with similar interests at that time, will be their own self-amusement, single-minded, red dust pavilion, May sky bomb four Western land literature BBS came to a strong combination, reorganized into the dragon sky original alliance website, referred to as longkong. Fei Ling, Rly, Yang Yu, Mayasoo, Now He Zai, Wolf Xiaojing became the first inbound authors.
Wolf Kyo
In 2001, the Magic Sword Book Alliance was established. It was formed by the merger of literary book stations founded by online literature enthusiasts such as Shuqing Xiaozhu, Stone Book City, and Xiaoshu Pavilion. Tang Jiasan Shao serialized "Children of Light" here, Xiao Ding wrote "Xue Xian" here, and Du Liang, who was unknown at that time, published "Bright Sword" here. At the same time, the wild fox under the tree began to serialize "Search for God" in the Phantom Sword Book League, and was later favored by Taiwan's Shangyan Publishing House and published in Taiwan. Due to the harshness of mainland publishers at the time (requiring authors to delete all online serials), the book was never published.
At that time, the most famous novel in the phantom sword was "The Journey of Miaojiao", written by Xiao Qian (real name Liu Xiaoqiang), who was praised by many as the originator of Xiuzhen novels.
Xiao Qian
In 2002, Lin Tingfeng, who was still working at the vehicle management office, wrote a fantasy novel, which was photographed by a publisher in Taiwan, and also became one of the first batch of online novel writers to publish works in Taiwan, not only love to write, but also love to read novels, after meeting several like-minded netizens in the QQ chat room, the Xuan Fantasy Literature Association was established, and later renamed the starting point network. The website has been running hard for a year, but it still relies on the invisible local tycoons in the founding team to survive.
Lin Tingfeng
In 2003, the starting point officially implemented the paid reading system, reading a thousand words and two cents, Lin Tingfeng began to use his screen name Bao Jianfeng to write the first VIP novel "Legend of the Magical Knight Hero" at the starting point, starting from ISBN 1, and also the first starting point eunuch novel. It was the isBN era, the first book. This is an epoch-making work of the online literary circle, which has since opened a new era in the development of Chinese online literature. At that time, there was no electronic payment, only through the bank remittance, every time the author of the online text withdrew, Lin Tingfeng had to ride an electric car to the post office to send money.
At that time, there was an online writer, every time as long as there was a balance in the account, even if it was only 20 yuan, 30 yuan, he had to withdraw money immediately, so Lin Tingfeng had to run the bank several times a day.
This author is the internet god Blood Red who later wrote "Thang Long Dao", the first online writer to earn millions.
Red
Before the starting point of the paid reading system came out, online writers had almost no income, and writing was supported purely by hobbies. After switching to the starting point, I finally received the first fee in my life: 50 yuan. On the same day, he excitedly used this fee to invite friends to play games in an Internet café for one night.
Although he was already a well-known online author on the Internet at that time, he was still trapped in a rental house in Wuhan and lived by eating instant noodles every day. Before that, he had sent out nearly 3 million words of works online for free, and he had never received a penny, nor did he think that he would be able to make money to make a living.
The first 50 yuan manuscript fee arrived, Blood Red immediately ordered a withdrawal, did not want to sleep, asked friends to go to the Internet café to play a night CS. After that, every time he received a fee, he immediately ordered a withdrawal, 30 yuan, 60 yuan, 80 yuan... Until he received a call from Shang Xuesong: "Big brother, don't you withdraw money so often, your legs are about to break!" ”
At that time, Blood Red took a few hundred dollars and blossomed happily, and did not expect that this number would be measured in "ten thousand" in just half a year.
Less than three months after the starting point's paid reading strategy came out, it swept through a number of opponents, won the top spot of the literary website in one fell swoop, and has remained so far, "wandering rats" is the first person to remit 50 yuan to become the starting point VIP, and later became the starting point's employees, still there. Wang Chao pseudonym wandering toad, in the Xilu forum code "Tianpeng Vertical and Horizontal", after entering the starting point, his novel became one of the first eight paid books at the starting point, the first month of the manuscript fee of more than 1,000 yuan, envy everyone at the same time, but also let everyone double their confidence. In less than a year, the starting point began to appear authors with millions of annual salaries.
Guangxi college student old pig, after losing love, went to the black Internet café to kill time, wrote "Zichuan" in the old rain building of the martial arts forum, forgot it after writing, and after a few months found that someone was urging, he decided to continue writing.
Also picking up the pen was the purchaser Zhang Jian. After graduating from university, he sold futures in Fujian, worked as a shoe factory worker, worked as a cloth shop guy, worked for 6 years, and did not have a job for a long time. His only hobby is reading, and he reads all the fantasy novels on the forum in a month. With no books to read, he simply wrote books and used his QQ nickname as a pen name. Xiao Ding, Xiao is the surname of Jin Yong's novel hero. His novel is called "The Immortals".
Tang Jiasanshao lost his job due to the IT bubble and decided to write a novel after a short time as a helper in his father's auto parts shop. Turn on the computer and he is the Creator. The father took Guo Jingming's report and asked him, "You also write novels, people also write novels, and people can earn a million a year." Tang Jiasan bowed his head, he couldn't earn a penny.
This group of later online writers gathered at the starting point.
Xiao Ding
In 2004, Chen Tianqiao, a 31-year-old young richest man, offered a price tag of $2 million, promised to retain the independent operation rights of the founding team of the starting point, and promised to use the grand point card system to help the starting point continue to expand. The offline payment system of Shanda Point Card has solved the stretch of the starting point recharge method, and the online novel industry has entered a golden age. Tang Jiasan began to write "Children of Light", and began his journey of becoming famous and constantly updating. The blood-red "Thang Long Dao" also began to be serialized in this year, maintaining the status of the starting point network, and the skeleton elf "Raptor Across the River", the innocent "SC's Other Shore Flower", and Zhou Xingwen's "Legend of Rebirth" also appeared in one year.
innocent
In the same year, the national working group "eliminating pornography and cracking down on illegal activities" launched a "special action to crack down on pornographic websites", and a large number of small and medium-sized websites began to disappear. While purifying cyberspace, it has also entered an era of competing for deer.
In 2005, 6 major literary websites such as "Sky Eagle", "Magic Sword Book Alliance" and "Dragon's Sky" formed the China Original Literature Alliance (CCBA), commonly known as the "Six Stations Alliance", which was fiercely sword-rattling, and staged a drama of "Six Kingdoms Combining to Resist Qin" in the online literature market, starting from the most powerful Qin State.
Zhu Hongzhi, a teenager from Jiangsu who had followed "The Legend of The Tang Dynasty", embarked on the road of writing online articles, named "I Eat Tomatoes" and wrote the first online novel that entered the top ten of Baidu's popular search, "Star Change", and the first online novel "Panlong", which became the top ten of Baidu's top ten hot words. The most single novel of the Golden Alliance, Devouring the Starry Sky. Become the online writer who receives the most tips from the Golden Alliance.
I eat tomatoes
At first, Butterfly Blue, who wrote online articles only for entertainment, did not think that he was writing in the Internet café, in order to avoid the embarrassment of being found writing novels, and deliberately separated from the students who played games a few seats away, when his "Full-time Master" came out, there would be so many fans, becoming the first novel to break a thousand leagues and the only one with thousands of leagues.
Butterfly blue
Thunderstorm began to serialize "Starting from Zero" at the beginning, becoming the first novel with more than ten million words. At the same time, there are also "A Generation of Military Divisions That Follow the Waves", "Step by Step", "Dream Back to the Great Qing", "Legend of the Evil God" of the clouds and skies, "Suzaku" of the catty, and "Evil Wind Song" of the blood red began to be serialized. As soon as the eunuch general manager Beacon Theatre Princes "The Best Prince" came out, it laid the industry status of the Beacon Theatre Princes.
Grand Master
In 2006, the "Ghost Blowing Lights" sung by tianxia bagu and the "Tomb Robber Notes" of the three uncles of the Southern Sect swept the Internet in this year. The dream-like "Buddha is the Tao" created a very influential Honghuangliu novel, and Fang Xiang's "Legend of the Master" created the mecha stream. In that year, Mingyue began to serialize "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" on the Internet, and Chen Dong also began to write "The Tomb of the Gods", Tomato's "Inch Mang", Hai Yan's "Langya List", Yue Guan's "Return to the Ming Dynasty as a Prince", the innocent "Rogue Master" Jing Guan's "Beast Blood Boiling", the wandering saber "Angry Bullets", and the writing board "Zhang Sanfeng's Exotic Tour" all appeared. This year, the gods began to emerge and began their famous works.
In 2007, not inferior to 2006, Yu Yan's "Need for Excellence" began to be serialized, becoming the most popular overhead history article. The god zhttty also began to write Infinite Horror. Cat greasy serial "Qing Yu Nian", these two years have also been popular. Tomato serialized "Stars Change", and Liu Yizi serialized "The Biography of Harem Zhen Huan". Dancing serial "Evil Laws". There is also the legendary book "The Fragment of the Avenue Out of Luoshui, half of the Heavenly Book "Zhibei Tour"" also appeared.
Flowing purple
In 2008, Tang Jiasanshao's "Douluo Continent" appeared, laying its hegemonic position, becoming the first online writer to join the Chinese Writers Association, the first online writer to earn tens of millions of dollars, and the first online writer to earn more than 100 million royalties. The platinum god writer with the first number of code words, and the platinum god writer who has accumulated the first update time.
Zhang Xiaohua's "The First Chaos in History", the forgotten "Biography of mortal Xiu Xian" became the first novel of the Hundred Leagues (one alliance lord one thousand yuan), Tang Qigongzi's "Three Lives and Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", the second generation of fishmen's "Very Pure and Ambiguous", Fang Xiang's "Ka Tu", Tomato's "Panlong", Gu Man's "Slight smile is very charming", and more vulgar "The Official Road of Rebirth". Angry Banana's Hidden Kill.
Forget about words
In 2009, Silkworm Potato's "Fighting to Break the Sky" became a representative of online novels, becoming the first novel to exceed 100 million readers.
Cat Ti wrote his pinnacle work "Inter-Guest", Beacon's work "Chen Er dog's Demon Life", Ergen's "Immortal Reversal", "Yang Shen" who dreamed into the divine machine, Tomato's "Nine Dings", "Shangpin Hanshi" of the Three Fools of the Thief Dao, Chendong's "Immortal Realm", and "Guanju Yipin" of the Master of the Three Precepts. There is also the group wear novel "Lingao Qiming" written by the three hundred warriors of Lingao, which is known as the operation guide of crossing.
In 2010, the Internet began to shift from the PC to the mobile terminal, and the online novel website also produced a huge change, Shanda Literature acquired websites such as Banyan Tree, Xiaoxiang Academy, etc., and the wasteland began to fight endlessly. The author suffers from poaching, the website is engaged in a dark war, the god writer can't help himself, the small white author struggles to survive, and the story of loyalty and betrayal is staged all day long. Many authors have turned to the Chinese network. Eye-catching began serializing his "Golden Pupil". Dancing began "Hunting country", tomato began "Devouring the Starry Sky", and the dream machine also began his first novel "Eternal Life" that crossed the Chinese network. Chendong began "Covering the Sky", and in 2017, Chendong's "Sacred Ruins" became the novel with the longest time, the largest collection and the largest number of fans in the monthly ticket list.
Chendong
In 2012, West China Metropolis Daily published the "Rich List of Chinese Writers", and Zheng Yuanjie was the first in physical publishing, with an income of 26 million yuan. As an online writer, Tang Jiasanshao's income has reached 33 million.
In 2013, the top four online writers were Tang Jia Sanshao, I eat tomatoes, silkworm potatoes and skeleton elves. One masterpiece per person, the total royalties have reached nearly 100 million yuan.
In 2014, the Shanghai Internet Writers Association was established, and Chen Cun, the former elder under the banyan tree, was elected as the president, and Blood Red, Skeleton Elf, Cai Jun, Sun Ganlu and Luo Shui were elected as vice presidents.
This marks that online literature has officially entered the mainstream vision, and online writers have officially become "writers".
It took more than ten years for the online text to be recognized by the public, and now after more than ten years, more readers have attracted more authors, as to whether they can become the gods who are sought after, become stars, become rich, only the novices who have stepped into this line of small whites know how much effort and hardship to pay.