The emergence of the Internet has lifted the ban on discourse and imagination based on freedom of speech in poetry writing. What is particularly striking is that it has brought about the rise of the vitality of folk poetry discourse and the strengthening of the underlying writing trend. Therefore, the closure of many poetry websites has something to do with the confusion of poetry evaluation standards, and more importantly, it has something to do with the emergence of the Internet and the online poetry discourse it gave birth to.
Online poetry was born in March, 1993. For the first time, Shiyang created a large number of poems by computer and published them on the Internet. Shiyang became the first online poet in the history of China.