Six Chapters of a Floating Life is an autobiographical novel written by Changzhou Shen Fu in the 13th year of Yu 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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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, fall in love and live a life of subsistence and art. Due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals were 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.

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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 Song of the Boudoir have been created as exceptions.

Six Chapters of a Floating Life consists of six volumes, and each volume has a small topic, followed by Boudoir, Leisure, Sorrow, Travel Notes on the Waves, Zhongshan Calendar and Health. According to textual research, the last two volumes are forgeries, and the words are not as good as before.