Six Chapters of a Floating Life is an autobiographical essay written by Shen Fu (1763-1825, whose real name is Yimei, a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), in the 13th year of Jiaqing (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? " .

The first volume, boudoir music, the second volume, leisure, the third volume, ups and downs, the fourth volume, travel notes of the waves, the fifth volume, Zhongshan calendar, the sixth volume, health preservation.