Six Chapters of a Floating Life

Six Chapters of a Floating Life

by Shen Fu

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This book is an autobiographical prose written by Shen Fu, a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou) in the Qing Dynasty, in the 13th year of Jiaqing (1808). The content takes the life of the author and his wife as the main line, describing the ordinary but interesting home life and what he saw and heard while traveling around the world. The text expresses the soul uniquely and is informal. It describes the couple's "love in the boudoir and trivial things in the family" in an affectionate and straightforward style, and writes about the sincere love between husband and wife.

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An autobiographical prose written in the 13th year of Jiaqing (1808) by Shen Fu (also known as Sanbai and Meiyi) from Changzhou in the Qing Dynasty. Yang Yinchuan, the brother-in-law of Wang Tao in the Qing Dynasty, found the remaining manuscript of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" at a cold stall in Suzhou. There were only four volumes. He gave it to Wang Tao, who was in charge of the Wenzun Pavilion in Shanghai at the time, and published it on a movable type board in 1877. The second dictionary of "Floating Life" comes from Li Bai's poem "Preface to the Spring Night Banquet from My Brother's Peach and Li Garden": "Heaven and earth are the reverse journey of all things; time is the passerby of hundreds of generations. And floating life is like a dream, how much joy is there?".

论人类不平等的起源和基础（译林人文精选）
茶经
Resurrection
国富论

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