China's online literature has developed into a cultural phenomenon that can't be ignored, and it plays an important role in meeting the people's growing cultural needs. It is necessary to correctly evaluate the development achievements, present situation, existing problems and prospects of online literature, so as to promote its healthy development and make greater contributions to the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
The sudden emergence of network literature is one of the important achievements of contemporary literature in China.
For more than p>21 years, network literature in China has sprung up and flourished at an alarming rate. At present, online literature in China has 455 million readers, 17.55 million registered authors, more than 1 million contracted writers, and about 25 million works in stock, which is growing at a rate of more than 2 million each year. It can be said that network literature is not only an important part of China literature, but also one of the important cultural phenomena in the world.
Although online literature is gradually recognized for its great influence, there are still great differences in people's understanding of online literature. In a broad sense, from the creation and dissemination of texts to reading, as long as this process is completed by relying on the network, such works can be called network literature. In this way, a lot of self-media writing can be included in the category of online literature. But at present, when literary circles talk about online literature, they usually adopt a narrow concept, which mainly refers to the genre novels published on the website with the establishment of the business model of paid reading.
China's online literature has been in a state of natural growth for quite a long time since it came into being spontaneously. The so-called natural growth is to grow wildly without management and restraint. As a result, under the appearance of vigorous development and prosperity, serious problems such as rough quality, vulgar content and deviation from mainstream values have emerged because of excessive emphasis on market benefits and blind pursuit of "fast", "long" and "cool". Later, everyone unanimously summed up the basic situation of China's online literature in this period with "barbaric growth and mud and sand".
fantasy novel is an important type of network literature in China, which is formed on the basis of China's martial arts novels, traditional mystery novels, folklore and fairy tales, as well as western science fiction and magic novels. History is also an important resource for online novel writing. An important type of online historical novel is time-travel novel, which draws lessons from the fantasy of fantasy and science fiction, takes martial arts, history and romance as the framework, and focuses on describing the protagonist's life state and conflict in two kinds of time and space, and the cross experience of double life experiences. There is basically no entry threshold for online literature, which makes many new writers often choose to write by imitating and following the trend, so some literary expressions and expressions are constantly strengthened, and finally some types are formed. In fact, popular literature and popular literature are basically typed. Especially when it is combined with business, it is almost an inevitable choice to take the road of typology. China's online literature has gradually shown its commercial value in its development and found its own business model. So the capital began to intervene, which made online literature embark on the road of commercialization, and online novels flourished unprecedentedly.