There are six kinds of original records in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, but there are four existing ones: the boudoir's music, the leisure music, the rough sorrow and the quick travel notes. The last two books, Sun Yat-sen's Calendar and The Way to Keep Healthy, have been lost. The last two chapters of Six Chapters of a Floating Life published by World Bookstore 1935 are pseudographs. There are many versions of this book. Yu Pingbo is the best proofreader and has a chronology of Six Chapters of a Floating Life. There are many translations in English, French, German and Russian.

Shen Fu, born in the 30th year of Qing Qianlong (1765), died in an unknown year. The word Sanbai is from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Poetry, painting and prose works. So far, no written record about his life has been found. According to "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", he was born in a family of aides, never took the imperial examination, and once made a living by selling paintings. With his wife Chen Yun, they are very affectionate. Due to family changes, the husband and wife have lived in other places for many years and experienced many ups and downs. After his wife died, he went to Sichuan as an adjutant. The situation is unknown since then.

Six Chapters of a Floating Life consists of six volumes, each of which has a small topic, followed by boudoir, leisure, sorrow, wandering travels, Sun Yat-sen's calendar, and health care. 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. In the preface to Yang Yinchuan, it is said 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