Six Chapters of a Floating Life focuses on the life of the author and his wife, which is better than what they saw and heard in A Wandering World. It is an ordinary and interesting family life. The work describes that the author and his wife, Chen Yun, are congenial and want to live a life of food, clothing, housing and art. Due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally shattered.

The text of this book is fresh and true, with no traces of carving and modification, and the plot is affectionate to death; It begins with joy, ends with worry, and gradually drifts away, making people sad and moving. In addition, this book also includes a famous work "Memories of Mei Ying 'an" by a famous person in Qing Dynasty who took the initiative to mourn Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai.

Six Chapters of a Floating Life is an autobiographical prose with high level and great influence, which occupies a very important position in the note literature of the Qing Dynasty. This book is characterized by its simplicity, frankness, expressiveness, informality and creativity. This creativity is first reflected in its subject matter and description object.

In the book, the author narrates the joy of husband and wife's boudoir with a deep and direct style, and writes the sincere love between husband and wife. In the history of China literature, there are many poems describing love, but most of them either write the erotic history of the court, or write the love tragedy under the etiquette of powerful people, or write the lingering between confidantes and boys and girls, and rarely involve the feelings of husband and wife.

The discerning Chen Yinque pointed out: "China literature dares not talk much about the relationship between men and women, especially the formal relationship between men and women, such as the relationship between husband and wife." The feeling of building a boudoir, the family obsessed with the triviality of salt, is generally not listed in the chapter, but summarized in general. Since then, Shen's Six Chapters of a Floating Life and Boudoir Music have been created as exceptions. "

About the author: Shen Fu (1763— 1825), a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), was a writer in the Qing Dynasty. Poetry, painting and prose works. So far, no written record about his life has been found. According to his "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", he was born in an aide family, never took the imperial examination, and once made a living by selling paintings.

His wife, Chen Yun, has a congenial temperament and deep feelings. He is willing to eat plain clothes and engage in artistic life. However, due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the hardships of poor life, his ideal has not been realized, and he has experienced the pain of where you will go. After his wife died, he went to Sichuan as an adjutant. The situation is unknown since then.

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