Six Chapters of a Floating Life consists of six volumes, and each volume has a small topic, which is followed by boudoir, leisure, sorrow, wandering travels, Zhongshan calendar, and ways of keeping in good health. According to textual research, the last two volumes are forgeries, and the words are not as good as before.
★ Six Stories of Floating Life
Six Chapters of a Floating Life is an autobiographical novel written by Changzhou Shen Fu in the 13th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1808). Yang Yinchuan, the brother-in-law of Wang Tao in the Qing Dynasty, found the remnant draft of Six Chapters of a Floating Life in a cold stall in Suzhou, with only four volumes, and gave it to Wang Tao, who was in charge of reporting Wenzunge in Shanghai at that time, and published it as movable type 1877. The second dictionary of a floating life tells Li Bai's poem Preface to the Spring Banquet in Taoliyuan that "the husband of heaven and earth, everything goes against the course;" Time flies, and a hundred generations fly by. And floating like a dream, for the joy of geometry? " .
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Wen Zunge's block-printed Six Chapters of a Floating Life is the earliest existing block-printed book in China, with Yang's life introduction and Wang Tao's inscription and postscript. Yang Yinchuan said in the preface that "six records are short of two". Wang Tao once said that he read this book when he was young (before 1847), but unfortunately he didn't copy it. When he was in exile in Hong Kong, he often missed it. Wang Tao 1877' s postscript for Zunwenge Edition did not say that he had read the whole book when he was young.
From 65438 to 0936, Lin Yutang translated four chapters of Six Chapters of a Floating Life into English and serialized them in Tianxia Monthly. Later, he published a bilingual booklet with a long preface. Lin Yutang wrote in the preface: "Yun, in my opinion, is the most lovely woman in China literature." I also guess that "there must be a complete book in Suzhou's family collection or second-hand bookstore."
Soon after, a complete manuscript appeared in a cold stall in Suzhou, with five volumes and six volumes, which was actually forged for future generations.
Yu Pingbo wrote Six Chapters of a Floating Life on the basis of the first four chapters of Six Chapters of a Floating Life.
Catalogue of six chapters of floating life
Recording music in the boudoir
The second volume, leisure and entertainment.
The third volume Rough and sad
Four waves travel fast.
The fifth volume Zhongshan calendar
Ministry of Health, Dao Ji, Liu Juan
Shen Fu's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" was included in the Chinese textbook of Senior One of People's Education Publishing House.
Translation from all over the world
This book has been translated into many languages. There are three English versions from Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Japan and Malaysia.
English version
The earliest English translation was the bilingual version of Lin Yutang in 1936, and the later English translation of Six Chapters of a Floating Life was published in 1960 by Oxford University Press. In 1980s, Penguin Publishing House published the English versions of Bailun and Jiang Suhui. This translation will be published by Yilin Publishing House in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province as one of the "Greater China Libraries".