A Book Review of Ting Xue Ji's Six Chapters of a Floating Life (1)

If you are dreaming, what is the joy? It's from Li Bai's Preface to the Garden of Peach and Plum on Spring Night Banquet, which was made by Li Bai for his brother's banquet.

The famous saying is "If you love heaven and earth, everything will go against the journey, and time will pass by for hundreds of generations, but if you live like a dream, what is the joy?" The ancients traveled by candlelight at night, which was good. " This is inherited the tradition of literati's five-character poems and the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Life is short, the situation is tortuous, and the ambition is hard to be rewarded. Life is like the wind, and there is no trace left. What's the use of life? Some people think that China people have no theory of death. I recently read The Round Table School, and I was inspired that China people's attitude towards death is taboo and implicit, which is also a view of death. Heidegger has the attitude of "living to death" and China people have the attitude of "oh, let a man of spirit venture where he pleases".

The worldly sufferings are hard to overcome, so we can only have fun for a while and forget the worldly sufferings. Since you are drunk, you must be drunk beautifully. Therefore, Master Cen said in "Night Collection with Judges in Liangzhou Pavilion", "How many times can you laugh in your life, and you must be drunk when you meet in a wine fight."

It's very rare for people to have a fling when they are proud, and it's even more rare to be optimistic when they are in adversity. Tongda optimism is close to Dongpo and admirable.

There are only four titles left in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, and the last two titles, The Calendar of Sun Yat-sen and The Way of Keeping Healthy. The last two records are not enough to be seen, and they are a collection of excerpts and plays by later generations. I only rated four.

Second, the boudoir recorded music

(1) The appearance of a maiden

Four great things in life, when I was in to be no.1, I spent a candle night in my bridal chamber, and I met an old friend when I was in another country.

Shen Sanbai started writing when he got as beautiful as a flower. What is as beautiful as a flower? It is the combination of three views and similar interests, and the appearance is second. It is a typical example that the spirit is higher than the body. It's not that the maiden is ugly. According to my inference, the maiden's appearance should be medium.

please see "cut shoulders and long neck, thin and unobtrusive, with curved eyebrows and beautiful eyes, looking forward to flying, only two teeth are slightly exposed, which seems to be not good." Is a bit buck-toothed, but Shen Fu don't think ugly, "a lingering state, the meaning of people also disappear".

They didn't meet on their wedding day, but they got to know each other and gradually admired each other.

(2) The talent of a maiden

There are only three talents of a maiden, namely, female red, poetry and wonderful thoughts.

Yunniang lost her father in her early years, leaving only her mother, Jin, and her younger brother, Ke Chang. "Yun is both long and delicate, and the three mouths are supported by their fingers. Kechang is a teacher and has no defects." A little girl, doing some needlework, can support three people and provide education for her younger brother. Things are difficult, the self-improvement of the mother and the exquisiteness of the female red show this.

The maiden began to learn to read with Pipa Xing. "One day, with the book" Pipa Travel ",you can read by word. In my spare time of embroidery, I gradually chanted, and there was a saying,' Autumn invades the figure and makes it thin, and frost dyes the chrysanthemum fat'. Autumn invasion figure thin, frost dyed chrysanthemum fat. There is Li Qingzhao's saying that "Mo Dao does not disappear, the curtain rolls west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers". The beauty lies in the lack of craftsmanship, the natural beauty, the fusion of images and emotions, and the formation of a realm of cold self-pity and fleeting time. Many men are inferior to her. Shen Fu therefore loves talents.

Shen Fu-jian's work "laments its brilliant talents, but I'm afraid its blessings are not deep". Shen Fuqin admired Yunniang, worried that he could not marry Yunniang, and told his mother, "I don't want to marry a non-Shu sister." Plus, Shen Fu's mother likes being a soft-hearted mother, so she got married.

(3) interesting things about the mother

1. Eating porridge

Seeing the bride off outside the city, Shen Fu was hungry that night, and the handmaiden at home served red dates and preserved fruits. Shen Fu thought the snacks were too sweet and greasy. Mother quietly took Shen Fu by the sleeve and prepared hot porridge and side dishes for Shen Fu. Shen Fu felt very warm-hearted, and was picking up chopsticks. Yunniang's cousin Yu Heng called her, "Sister Shu, come quickly!" The nun quickly closed the door and said, "I'm tired and ready for bed." Yuheng quickly squeezed into the door and saw me eating porridge. While glancing sideways at Yunniang, he laughed at her: "I asked you for porridge just now, but you said it was gone. Did you hide it for your husband?"

what a shame!

Hunniang () was shy and hid in the house, and the servants around her laughed. Shen Fu was angry, too, and went back with his old servant.

(Yun Niang's preference for Shen Lang is evident on the paper. Yun Niang's shyness is exposed to Shen Fu's face, so he has no face and leaves the handrail. Very graphic. )

2. Xiu En 'ai

In the dead of night, the mother was still awake. Shen Fu put her shoulder behind her and asked her, You work so hard every day, but you still have to study hard at night?

The bride said, I was just about to go to bed when I opened the bookcase. When I saw this book, I forgot to get tired. The book "The West Chamber" has long been known for its name, but it was only seen today. It really deserves the reputation of "a talented person and a beautiful woman", but it is too straightforward and sharp to describe. Shen Fu said with a smile: "It is precisely because Wang Shifu is a gifted scholar that he can write such a sharp opinion."

The servant urged them to have a rest. Shen Fu ordered the servant to go out first after closing the door. Shen Fu's side by side with the bride is like a bosom friend. Shen Fu secretly touched the mother's heart, and the mother's heart was pounding. Shen Fu fell in her ear and said, "Why does my little sister beat so fast?" Mother smiled and looked back at Shen Fu, and Shen Fu smelled a wisp of fragrance, which shook people's hearts.

then, I don't know that the east is white.

(It has always been difficult to grasp the discretion when writing about love, and most of them are too erotic and few are boring. Shen Fu's brilliant pen can be subtle and moving. )

3. Fancy dog abuse in Canglang Pavilion

One June, when my home was hot, I was lucky enough to live in the west wall of Ailianju in Canglang Pavilion. When I saw the house in Banqiao, there was a stream next to it called "I took it". It is taken from Qu Yuan's "Fisherman" that "the water in the surging waves is clear and clear, and you can hold my tassel. The water in the surging waves is turbid, and it can be used to drown my feet. There is an old tree in front of the eaves, with lush foliage and green faces. This is the place where Shen Fu's father put down the curtain to entertain guests. Shen Fu told her mother that she was here for the summer with her mother. Because it was too hot, the mother stopped embroidery. Mothers accompany Shen Fu to read books and talk about the ancients and enjoy the moon and flowers every day. Mothers are not good at drinking, and they can barely drink three cups. Shaoxing wine and yellow rice wine in the south of the Yangtze River are very popular. ) Shen Fujiao shoots (a kind of wine order). Shen Fu thought: About all the happiness in the world is not more than (he and his mother).

(city people can play, right? )

4. On Poetry

... Shen Fu asked Yun Niang: "In the Tang Dynasty, poems were used to appoint officials. When writing poems, we must admire Li Bai and Du Fu, Yun Niang. Whose poems do you like?"

Yunniang replied, "Du Fu's poems pay attention to tempering words, so as to make the poems reach the pure state, and Li Bai is natural and unrestrained. (I) I might as well learn the liveliness of Li Bai's poems instead of learning from Du Fu's strict laws."

Shen Fu asked: "Du Fu is a master of poets. Most people who study poetry have to learn from Du Fu's poems. Why do you like Li Bai's poems alone?"

The nun said, "Du Fu is really good at metrical rigor and profound poetry. But Li Bai's poems are like the goddess in the sky, with the interest of falling out of the water, which is really lovely. However, compared with Li Bai, I still like Du Fu less and Li Bai more. "

Shen Fu said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be a bosom friend of Li Qinglian (Li Bai's violet layman).

..... (The following is the predestination between a mother and Bai. With Bai Juyi, Shen Fu (word three white). In short, Shen Fu has the "bad taste" of teasing his wife to express her opinions and teasing her. In short, "Shen Saburo" is really bad! It's the kind that is bad and bad!

Shen Fu's taste is also in Li Bai. Throughout the book, Shen Fu's natural and unrestrained romantic talents are more like Li Bai than Du Fu. Mother likes Li Bai, and so does Shen Fu. Therefore, Shen Fu loves Mothers more and takes them as his bosom friends. ) I also love Li Bai, Hunniang and Shen Fu, hoping to be their confidants.

5. Wonderful discussion of fragrant flowers

... One day, Shen Fu and Yun Niang talked, and Yun Niang laughed with tears and a runny nose (how funny it was), and fell into Shen Fu's arms, laughing so hard that she couldn't make any noise. Shen Fu suddenly found that the jasmine on the side of the mother's temples smelled fragrant. Shen Fu patted the mother's back and explained: "I thought that the ancient people used jasmine as a makeup because it was like a pearl, so I didn't want this flower to get greasy and greasy, and its fragrance was more lovely. The bergamot we offered should stay away."

The mother stopped laughing and said, "bergamot (a southern fruit) is a gentleman in fragrance, and the fragrance is only intentional or unintentional. Jasmine is a gentleman in fragrance and needs to borrow people's power. The fragrance of Jasmine is also like a flattering smile with a shrug."

Shen Fu asked, "Why do you stay away from gentlemen and get close to villains?"

the nun said, "I laugh at the gentleman (Shen Lang) who loves villains! "

(The metaphor that jasmine is a villain and bergamot is a bergamot is very apt, which shows that the bride is talented. When a gentleman acts, he only cares about whether he should do it or not, and it is not their concern whether he will attract others' praise. A villain acts, or does it only when he praises others. The fragrance of jasmine is strong, which is intended to be smelled by others, while the fragrance of bergamot is weak, which can only be smelled with heart. Shen Fu's answer was also witty. Shen Fuben wanted to embarrass her, but she teased her. )

6. Promote the taste

When eating every day, Yunniang must soak in tea, especially like to eat tea soaked with mustard and stewed with milk rot, which is commonly known as smelly milk rot in Wu, and Yunniang likes to eat shrimp and stewed melon. These two kinds of snacks are the most annoying in Shen Fu.

Shen Fu joked: "Dogs eat shit because they have no stomach, because dogs don't know that shit stinks, and dung beetles lump dung into a ball, and then turn it into cicadas, because dung beetles are of high quality. Are you a dog or a cicada? "

The nun said, "Tofu milk is cheap and can be eaten with porridge and rice. I used to eat it when I was a child. Now that I am married to your family, I will know that I have turned into a cicada and still like to eat. This is not forgetting my roots. As for the bittern melon, I just tasted it when I came to your house. "

Shen Fu said, "So our house is a dog hole?"

The mother reluctantly explained, "Everyone has shit. The difference between a dog and a man is whether he eats it or not. However, my husband likes garlic, and I managed to eat it. Stinky tofu can't be forced, bittern melon can be squeezed and tasted, and you will know its delicacy after eating it, just like salt-free (Zhong Lichun) is ugly but has noble character. "

Shen Fu said with a smile, "Do you want to set me up as a dog?"

"I've been a dog for a long time, so I'll try to wronged my husband." Forcing it into Shen Fu's mouth with chopsticks.

Shen Fu held his nose and chewed the pickled melon, as if he felt the crispy taste of the pickled melon. He took off his hand covering his nose and chewed it again, which turned out to be delicious. Since then, he likes to eat pickled melon.

It's delicious to mix sesame oil with a little white sugar, and it's delicious to mash it with pickled melon, which is called double fresh sauce. It's super delicious!

Shen Fu said, "It's incredible to hate at first and love at last."

the nun said, "I love you, but I'm not too ugly."

Shen Fu appreciates the bride, is persuasive, is good at stimulating her talents, and indulges her. Mothers not only admire and care for Shen Fu, but also have wit and ridicule. Shen Fu and Yun Niang appreciate each other and share the same interests. They are good at making ordinary life interesting.

It was incredible in the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago. Today, it also has profound reference significance. On the one hand, there are many phenomena of straight male cancer and objectifying women. On the other hand, while enjoying their own "equal" rights, some women themselves hope to get something for nothing, or get more for less, and are unwilling to pay, which is also objectifying themselves. There is still a long way to go to achieve real equality between men and women.

The way Shen Fu and Yun Niang get along is to be good at communication, mutual understanding and mutual dedication on the basis of love and similar interests. It's not just simple liking and love that will last. Getting along is an art.

I excerpted my favorite paragraphs for rough translation and rewriting. There is no detailed textual research, and there are occasional shortcomings. I hope experts can correct me. I hope I can pass on Shen Lang's smartness, talent and interest to readers.

to be continued ...

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