The Network Time Travel Fictions’ Public Reception

In 2004, to begin with the two Qing Dynasty time-travel novel, Dreaming Daqing and Qing Dynasty Palace ? Feeling Empty ?Empty, which was serialized in Jinjiang original network, the time-travel novel became popular. In 2007, the activities "the four masterpieces selection " for the time-travel novel push through reading time-travel fiction boom to peak, so this year was called as " the time-travel years". In 2011,because of the hit of TV play The Heart-pounding Step by Step and Heart Jade locked in Palace, which was rearranged from Tonghua’s novel of the same name. As of December 2014, there has been 220,000 novels of "Time-travel” label in Jinjiang original network, and the number is still increasing, The Qidian Chinese network also has 110,000 time-travel novels. Literary productive activities is in proportion to the readers’ acceptance, and there are so many time-travel novel is not the wishful thinking of these big site, it has a close relationship with the reader’s demand and welcome. Why the time-travel novel can be accept by the majority of readers, and why this literary boom can be sustained for several years? The reason for that is worthy for us to explore, this paper will analyse the appearance of this literary boom through two aspects, the public receptive psychology and method of reception of the time-travel novel. First of all, the gameplay of the network through the novel cater to the entertainment psychology of readers, readers can drain their depression and tension in real life through reading; The readers are almost young female, the beauty and wisdom heroine in the novel’s provide urban women under the pressure with mental compensation; The hype and marketing make the reader have a herd mentality and follow the trend to buy and read. Secondly, the widely receive of the novel is relevant with its new acceptance mode. The readers can not only participate in the criticism of the works, but also can be directly involved in the creation of works. This interactive, conversational way of accepting mobilize reader’s participation enthusiasm, promote the time-travel novel’s popular. At the same time, the serial communicative mode change the public’s acceptance from the overall acceptance of text to fragments of text. It not only strongly aroused readers aesthetic expectation, but also cultivate readers new habit of browsing the site regularly.