In the guesthouse.

The warm sunshine crawled onto the bed and gently tugged Li Fan's delicate cheeks. After rolling two consecutive times, he finally opened his sleepy eyes.

Yesterday, he was tossed by Chenhua University, and then he was taken to the cafeteria by Teacher Sun from the Admissions Office and tasted the delicious snacks from Chenhua University. When he finally got out of here and returned to the guesthouse, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening, so he lay on the bed and slept until dawn.

Like most people, the first thing Li Fan did when he got up was to turn on the phone beside the bed and read the news with his eyes half-squinted.

As usual, he opened the "Chinese Studies Times" APP first, looked around casually, and happened to see Gu Yating's article "Research on "The Record of Ten Continents in the Country"".

I never expected this article to be published so early, but it was not published in the column of famous artists, but as an ordinary author.

Li Fan has read the content of that article many times, and he gave Gu Yating a little advice.

As for the general content of this article, it is: This is a collection of ancient Han mythological and strange novels. It is said that it was written by Dongfang Shuo.

But the result of Gu Yating's comprehensive verification is that this book was not written by Dongfang Shuo.

The arguments are as follows:

1: This book is not mentioned in "Book of Han: Biography of Dongfang Shuo", and it is probably also a "good guy in later generations" who wrote it in the name of Dongfang Shuo.

2: The "Records of the Ten Continents" recorded the incident of Emperor Wu of Han shooting tigers in Hualin Garden. There was a major bug because the descendant of Emperor Wu of Jin's Hualin Garden said: "Hualin Garden is in the northeast corner of the city. Emperor Ming of Wei named Fanglin Garden, and King Fang of Qi changed it to Hualin." It can be seen that this name was not yet available during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Obviously, this book was not written by Dongfang Shuo, but was written by later generations.

...

There is no need for Li Fan to read the content of this book, so he directly clicked on the comment section below.

The comment section is full of frying:

"Wow, not only is it beautiful, but also talented. I have booked this wife."

"Although I don't understand it very well, I just think it's so amazing. Come on, beautiful lady Gu."

"I guess another anti-counterfeiting madman has been online after Li Fan."

"It's obvious that you can rely on your appearance, why do you have to rely on your talent?"

...

Li Fan shook his head, why did you guys? Do you praise me if you understand the content?

As for why I praise myself if I don’t understand it, the netizens later gave the answer.

"Please pay attention. I wrote a special thank you at the end of the article. It turns out that this article was guided by Li Fan, no wonder."

"So there is the first person in the archaeology to support him, so this article is valuable."

"Looking like this, Gu Yating and Li Fan obviously have an affair. The baby is unhappy!"

"Li Fan, come out quickly and give us a reasonable explanation, what is your relationship!"

...

Li Fan quickly clicked on the article and looked carefully. Sure enough, there was a sentence at the end of the article - "Don't thank Li Fan for his advice and correction, and I couldn't bear to cry."

OK, you girl has a conscience!

Li Fan began to leave a message in the comment area and said, "I didn't play any role in this article at all. Gu Yating is so serious. She completed the entire article alone."

As soon as Li Fan's comment was released, it was instantly held down by netizens.

"The anti-counterfeiting madman is shocked, hurry up, tie it up, don't let him run away!"

"This period of time can be considered a meeting with you. Li Fan, who is strongly asking for advice. In history and literature, what is undoubtedly accurate and what is fake."

"The upstairs is not comprehensive, and it also includes science, medicine, astronomy, etc. In short, what we are interested in now is not what is fake, but what is real."

“1!”

...

Recently, netizens have been very uneasy and have been confused by various "textual research".

Since Li Fan started the "archaeological anti-counterfeiting", not only Li Fan is writing articles, but Li Fan has caused a craze.

Just talking about news editors, Li Fan’s textual research articles were just interviewed, and it seemed that they had brought new writing directions to many news editors in an instant. Only then did professional editors realize that Li Fan’s “new textual research” is interesting. It is a fake that the ancients could not speak, and modern people are still interested, which gives them a good income.

So recently, various textual research has emerged on the entire Internet. You can basically see the "textual research" of ancient Chinese history, etc. when you click on any website or news client.

However, their "textual research" articles are mainly based on curious news topics, and the following words often appear: "according to records", "according to rumor", "has documented"...

But where is it recorded? Who passed it on? What documents were written? The editors won’t talk about it because they made up the mess, and they are documents.

Li Fan's articles are academic research, while various news editors are in the "entertainment section", which leads to messy and blind textual research on the Internet.

Anyway, news editors need to make money and live, and they have brought up too many "textual articles" that are sensational.

The readers who ended up suffering were the majority of readers, and everyone had no ability to distinguish. After all, the foundation of Chinese studies was poor, so I thought I had increased my knowledge, but it turned out to be all fake knowledge.

Of course, in addition to news editors, some scholars have also written some articles, but they have basically fallen into the sea. After all, there are no news editors to entertain gossip, and the articles written by scholars are all academic works, which is too standardized.

In this environment, netizens are naturally a little confused. Instead of asking what is fake, it is better to ask what is real, as if everything has been fake in the past month.

Li Fan had no choice but to remind netizens: "Looking at history objectively, don't listen to news editors' fooling around. Textual research is not gossip, but academic. Basically, all the works of news editors are unreliable."

Netizens were confused and couldn't rely on it. Who would you read in this kind of article in the future?

Li Fan had no solution to this problem. He held his phone and sighed. The Internet today is really a mess, and I don’t know when and when will it be standardized.

Li Fan talked about a few more times with netizens, and suddenly Gu Yating appeared in the comment section. She said: "Li Fan is too modest. The final formation of this article really depends on Li Fan." This sentence was followed by a "smiling face" emoji.

Li Fan replied to her again: "I just made a few suggestions and I am not qualified to be on your credit card."

Gu Yating replied again: "No, without your corrections, there will be many mistakes in my article!"

...

The two of them went back and forth, and were so polite in the comment section. It was probably in public and they didn’t have the nerve to brag.

Netizens watched quietly, and then suddenly burst out:

"You two are really enough, don't show your love here!"

"Ah, it's so eye-catching!"

"I'll give you a song at this time: Happy breakup, I wish you happiness, you can find something better..."

...

Then, these two accounts were offline at the same time and were not speaking.

After putting down his cell phone, Li Fan washed his face. Just as he was about to have a meal, Lu Yaya called and asked Li Fan to have a meal.

The place for dinner was in the Beijing University Canteen, across from Chenhua University and Beijing University First Street. After Li Fan finished washing up, he went to the appointment.

Because the university started, Lu Yaya's work in "The Chinese Studies Times" could not continue. However, because of her background at Peking University and her good performance during her work, she still named her "The Chinese Studies Times" as a part-time job and was still responsible for the review of the manuscripts, but she could complete it in school.

Facing a table of delicious food, Li Fan would never show mercy. He buried his head and waved his chopsticks, and pulled it into his mouth with a snoring sound.

Lu Yaya chewed her mouth slowly and said, "You still have the intention to eat it! How big a disaster did you think you have caused?"

"Creating a trouble?" Li Fan raised his head and asked curiously, "What trouble is causing?"

"Your textual research!"

"What's wrong?"

"Think about it, as soon as your concept of 'new textual research' was released, the article has been published, which has directly led to the 're-employment' of many unscrupulous editors, and directly gave them a new writing direction.

Now there are many hilarious and trash articles on the Internet, such as 'Zheng Chenggong is not an eunuch', 'Li Shimin's son Li Chengqian is not his biological child', 'Wu Zetian is a man', 'Kangxi is bisexual'..."

puff!

Li Fan wiped his lips and said, "Thank you, I refreshed my cognition again."

Lu Yaya said: "Does the emergence of these trash news have something to do with you? If you didn't waving the flag and shouting, these bullshit articles could appear? If these editors could really make some reasonable arguments, they would either be far-fetched or they would be completely nonsense."

"It's true, for the sake of attention and traffic."

Lu Yaya said worriedly: "The key is that netizens can't tell the difference between good and bad. They all look at it according to the truth. These editors said ruthlessly that they are Chinese studies borers and are completely cheating on our next generation."

Li Fan put down his chopsticks and couldn't eat them at all. He stroked his cheek with his hand and said, "Your words make sense. The messy news spread in the entertainment industry is not fatal, but Chinese studies are not a joke."

"Yes, it's time to regulate it. I was joking with you before, what does it have to do with you? However, the concept of 'new textual research' is hot, and this wave was triggered by you. So, I think you should make a sound to really let netizens know what academic research is and what is pure nonsense."

Li Fan nodded and stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go back and write it out now."

Lu Yaya said anxiously: "There is another thing. Will it be enough to write more articles? It's been more than a month since you've only taken out three articles, young brother."

"A lot! Academic works are too slow to publish, and I haven't found the next article yet."

Lu Yaya looked at Li Fan's hurriedly leaving and thought to herself: The entire website is waiting for you to attract traffic and hype topics. As a result, Editor-in-Chief Zhu was so anxious that he stomped his feet. He didn't urge you, but he suppressed all this trashing matter on me.

...

That night, amid the sound of a keyboard typing, an article that could be called "new textual research" was born - "Introduction to "New Textual Research"".

After repeated reviews, this article was passed on to Lu Yaya's email through the Internet.

Lu Yaya clicked on the email and saw that the first sentence of the article was: I heard that the Internet has become popular recently, and the works are full of great works, but the quality is not uniform, so I wrote this article to face the sound.

Read more carefully, the fundamental method of studying is mentioned in the article: seek truth from facts, believing in no evidence, focusing on evidence, and writing style is simple.

The four academic research fundamentally established the research method of "new textual research" and criticized those who were just sensational.
To be continued...