Freelance refers to occupations that are free from the control of enterprises and companies, self-managed, and focus on individual labor, such as lawyers, freelance writers, independent actors and singers. By extension, it seems that the same is true of vendors practicing stalls on the street. They are the same people without organization.
Freelance occupation has gradually emerged and developed since the reform and opening up. In the past, there was no freelancing. Everyone belongs to a certain enterprise and unit, and few people can leave the organization. No matter how clever the labor is, it is also restricted by various rules and regulations and supervised and interfered by all sides. Writers' writing is subject to the leadership intention and social situation, and the so-called joint creative group is a freak of that period. At that time, even the profession of lawyer was cancelled. After the reform and opening up, all walks of life have been revitalized, and elites from all walks of life have emerged. People are no longer satisfied with a safe and plain life. Especially in some economic and cultural fields, some intellectuals show strong independent personality, hoping to get rid of the restrictions of "organization" and restore the identity of traditional freelancers. As a result, a large number of "free men" broke through the ground.