Six Chapters of a Floating Life
by Shen Fu
About This Novel
"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" takes the life of the author and his wife as the main line, describing ordinary but interesting home life, as well as what he sees and hears when he travels to various places. The work describes that the author and his wife Chen Yun were in love and wanted to live a life of commoners, eating vegetables and engaging in art. However, due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poverty, their ideals were finally shattered. In the history of Chinese literature, there are many poems and essays describing love, but most of them are about palace romances, or about love tragedies under the despotic power of power, etiquette, and law, or about intimate friends and the entanglement between boys and girls, and rarely involve the love between husband and wife. "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" written by Shen Fu vividly describes the life of husband and wife. Lin Yutang translated the four volumes of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" into English and wrote a long preface.
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