When I recall my children, I can open my eyes and look at the sun. I can see the most subtle things clearly. When I see a tiny thing, I will definitely observe its texture carefully, so I often have fun beyond the thing itself.
Mosquitoes make thunderous sounds in summer, and I secretly compare them to cranes flying in the air. I thought in my heart that hundreds of mosquitoes really turned into cranes; I looked up at them and my neck was stiff. I left some mosquitoes in the tent, sprayed them slowly with smoke, made them fly and screamed at the smoke. I regard it as the landscape of Qingyun white crane, which really sounds like Qingyun crane. I applaud this scene with joy.
I often squat down where the earth wall is uneven and the flower bed is overgrown with weeds, so that I can be flush with the flower bed and observe with my heart. I regard grass as a forest, insects and ants as wild animals, the protruding parts of clods as hills and the sunken parts as valleys. I feel very relaxed and comfortable in it.
One day, I saw two bugs fighting in the grass. I squatted down to observe them. I am very interested. Suddenly, a huge guy came from the mountain and overwhelmed the tree. It turned out to be a toad. When its tongue spit out, it ate both worms. I was very young at that time, lost in thought, and couldn't help exclaiming' Ah'. When he settled down, he caught the toad, whipped it dozens of times and drove it to another yard.
Shen Fu? (1763- 1825), the word three white, was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) in the 28th year of Qingganlong. Qing dynasty writers. Author of Six Chapters of a Floating Life. Poetry, painting and prose works.
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. Forty-two years after Qianlong (AD 1777), he went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang to study with his father.
In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong (A.D. 1784), Emperor Qianlong toured Jiangnan, and Shen Fu followed his father to meet him. Later, he came to Suzhou to engage in wine industry. He has a very good relationship with his wife, Chen Yun. Due to family changes, the husband and wife have been living in other places and have experienced ups and downs. After his wife died, he went to Sichuan as a staff member. The situation is unknown since then.
Six Chapters of a Floating Life is the second volume of Shen Fu's autobiographical essay Six Chapters of a Floating Life. Each volume has a small topic, that is, the first volume: boudoir, the second volume: leisure, the third volume: ups and downs, and the fourth volume: wandering around the world.
Six Chapters of a Floating Life focuses on the life of the author and his wife, winning an ordinary and interesting family life and what he saw and heard wandering around. The work describes that the author and his wife, Chen Yun, are congenial and want to live an artistic life. However, due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally shattered.