Back to 80: My Literary Life

At 8 pm on December 26, the award ceremony of the first Internet Literature Original Competition under the Banyan Tree was held at the Shanghai Mall Theater.

The ceremony gathered leaders and emerging talents from various literary schools. The names on the business cards were either writers or editors of literary websites, reporters from traditional media or young online authors.

Fang Minghua and his group of judges also arrived at the theater early. They were immediately surrounded by a large group of journalists and literary young people, each chatting with their favorite authors.

Wang Shuo, the tireless "youth mentor", was talking eloquently in a corner of the theater, surrounded by his fans. Seeing the crowd, this guy took the opportunity to sell his new work "The Ignorant is Fearless".

Mo Yan was a little lonely at first. Like his pen name, he was usually relatively silent. Of course, people knew that this somewhat ugly man was a pioneer in the literary world today. When everyone surrounded him and asked him to express his views on online literature, he had no choice but to Expressing his opinion as if squeezing out toothpaste: "Online literature is just like current literary journals, only one percent is good."

Fang Minghua was naturally surrounded by a group of people, and the question focused on: "Some people think that online literature challenges and competes with traditional literature. What do you think of this?"

"No, I don't think so. On the contrary, it should be that online literature and traditional literature are secretly flirting with each other and extending the hand of friendship to each other. There is this "intimate contact" between the two.

At eight o'clock sharp, the ceremony officially began.

The theater was packed with seats. On a road outside the theater, a young man was running wildly, his long hair blowing in the cold wind.

He played hooky from Songjiang No. 2 Middle School.

He was not a good student. He skipped school and failed classes but he loved literature very much.

When he was in junior high school, he published works such as "Career Model" in "Youth Literature" and other publications.

His name is Han Han.

I took the subway all the way from Songjiang to come here just to witness this literary event with my own eyes.

Panting, Han Han ran to the door of the theater. When the security guard wasn't paying attention, he got in and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the empty seats.

Fortunately, I was not too late for a long time.

He didn't care that there were no seats. He walked straight to the front along the side aisle and found a corner to watch quietly.

He also signed up for this online literature competition, but unfortunately his article fell into disarray and was not selected.

But it doesn't matter, this doesn't change his love for literature.

On the stage, Fang Minghua, one of the presenters, was announcing the awards.

"The work that won the first prize in the novel category of the first Banyan Tree Online Original Literature Award is "Little Hotel in the Sexy Era" by the author Shang Ailan. Please welcome Ms. Shang Ailan!"

"Bah bang bang!" Warm applause erupted in the theater.

A young woman in her thirties stood up from the front row, bowed to everyone, and then walked to the stage.

Hey, why are you still holding a little girl in your hand?

There were people in the audience talking in low voices.

Fang Minghua was also a little surprised. There was someone with his daughter who was receiving the award?

Of course, you can't drive the little girl away in this situation, so the host came to the rescue temporarily.

"Ms. Shang, is this your daughter? She's so cute."

Shang Ailan was generous and explained calmly:

"Yes, she is my daughter. She has also liked writing since she was a child. I took her to experience some literary atmosphere."

The host looked at this cute little girl who was about 10 years old and couldn't help but bend down and asked: "Kid, what's your name? Are you happy that your mother won the prize?"

The little girl replied crisply: "Auntie, my name is Jiang Fangzhou. I am very happy that my mother won the award. I want to learn from my mother and win a big award in the future!"

Tong Yanwuji's words made everyone on and off the stage laugh.

Fang Minghua did not laugh along.

Oh my God

At such a young age, you have to start fighting for fame for your daughter?

This mother is quite powerful.

Of course, this is a small episode.

Fang Minghua smiled and handed the award certificate to Shang Ailan. The two shook hands and faced the audience. The venue once again burst into warm applause.

The following award was given to: Lao Gu, the author of the second prize for the novel "I Fall in Love with the Woman in Pregnancy".

"The Age of Heroes": Author M IKKO.

First-class prose category: "Mosquito's Letter", author: Mosquito.

Second Prize "The Place I Will Love Until Death" by Yu Hui

After the awards were given, all 16 people took the stage for a group photo, followed by a drama performance by East China Normal University.

The play consists of three parts, which are adapted from "First Intimate Contact", Jascha and Wi's "Internet Photoshooting and Preventing Wolf Manual" and Xing Yusen's masterpiece "Live Like a Human".

Fang Minghua watched with gusto.

Don't tell me, this Xing Yusen is really a talent.

Of course, he is not the head catcher in the later "Wulin Gaiden", but one of the screenwriters of this TV series, a doctor of engineering from Yanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications!

In addition to "Wulin Gaiden", there are also "Family with Children", "Idle Man Sister Ma" and so on.

If you can catch this person, it would be quite good to be a screenwriter.

At ten o'clock sharp, the awards party ends.

But the impact of this online literature competition has not disappeared.

After the competition, Annie Baby served as the content production director of Under the Banyan Tree, and established Annie Baby Studio to create an electronic magazine on the website.

In January, the program "Night Love Under the Banyan Tree" in cooperation with Shanghai Oriental Radio Station was officially launched. It will broadcast exciting articles from netizens every night from 11 to 12 o'clock.

In the February 27, 1999 issue of Internet Weekly, writer Wu Guo named the three writers with the greatest influence and the most reprinted works at that time, Li Xunhuan, Ning Caishen and Xing Yusen, as the "Three Horsemen of Online Literature."

Today is January 1, the first day of the new year.

The weather in Shanghai is not very good, a little gloomy.

A group of people gathered in the lobby on the first floor of Jinjiang Hotel, all of whom were award-winning authors of the online literature competition, judges and staff of Shengshi Literature Company.

As one of the prizes of this competition, all the staff visited Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou.

For this purpose, the company chartered a bus and took everyone there for two days. Shang Ailan naturally brought her daughter with her.

The little girl immediately became the favorite of the team.

Fang Minghua was supposed to go with them, but suddenly she had something urgent so she didn't go.

It turned out that Zhang Yimou came back from the United States and said that he had something to discuss with him.

At the same time, Song Tangtang led a team to the United States to participate in the roadshow of the second Harry Potter movie, and more importantly, to negotiate with Warner Bros. on the development of Harry Potter's surrounding areas.

Although the copyright of the Harry Potter movie is in the hands of Shengshi Films, and the movie is jointly shot by the two companies, Song Tangtang is also very clear:

The company is unable to develop the peripheral products of the Harry Potter movie, and it still needs to rely on Warner Bros. in the United States, and the same structure is authorized to a third party for development. Now the rights and interests of both parties are being negotiated.

The rest of the team flew from Yanjing to New York, while Song Tangtang came to Shanghai first, stayed for a short time, and then rushed to the United States.