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"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is the most beautiful prose among Chinese classical prose. Shen Fu wrote the poetic residence of him and his beloved Yun Niang in their ordinary days with unvarnished language and simple and sincere feelings. The two talked about poetry and songs together, and commented on the poems of Li and Du; they went to the Canglang Pavilion at night to admire the moon, feeling that the universe was so vast but there was no emotion; Shen Fu loved traveling around the world, tending to vases of flowers, gathering with friends, reciting poems and painting, and was indifferent to fame and wealth throughout his life, and was unrestrained and unrestrained; while Yun Niang made her own plum blossom food boxes, living screens, pulled hairpins to sell wine, did not care for pearls and jade but cherished calligraphy and painting, and placed tea in the heart of lotus flowers. Her taste in life was also unique. Shen Fu and Yun Niang, the two "most affectionate husbands" and "the loveliest women" in the history of Chinese literature, from talking about poetry and painting to admiring the moon and flowers, the ordinary Chaimi couple turned their ordinary life into a poem. A life full of interest is the best life. If the floating life is really interesting, the common people, vegetables and rice are also amiable and lovely. In this life, you should be with interesting people, do interesting things, and live an interesting life.