Shen Fu’s introduction

1. Introduction to the author

Shen Fu, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, was given the courtesy name Sanbai and his nickname Meiyi. Cheung Chau people. He was born in the 30th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, and his death year is unknown. Shen Fu was neither a scholar nor a man of letters. He was born in the "Three Crowns Family" and later learned business. Later, he made a living by selling paintings and traveled around the world. In the 13th year of Jiaqing (1808), upon the recommendation of a friend, as a guest of the envoy Qi Kun of the Ryukyu mission, he crossed the sea to participate in the ceremony of canonizing the King of Ryukyu, and wrote his memoirs "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" at the Ryukyu Embassy.

2. About "Six Chapters of a Floating Life"

"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is an autobiographical memoir written by Shen Fu. The whole book is written in lyrical prose, with emotions in the words. Deeply touching. The title of the book is taken from the meaning of "Floating life is like a dream, and it is a geometry of joy" in Li Bai's "Spring Night Banquet in the Peach and Plum Garden", so it is titled "Six Chapters of a Floating Life". The last six volumes are, in order of title, "Records of Joy in the Boudoir", "Records of Leisure and Fun", "Records of Sorrows in Ups and Downs", "Records of Wandering Travels", "Records of Zhongshan Calendar", and "Records of Health Preservation". The first four records are extant, and the last two are lost. The book narrates his and his wife's home life, life and death, and travels to famous places. It has unique comments on landscapes, gardens, food and daily life, and elaborates on his unconventional views.

3. Master the pronunciation of the following words in red.

childlike zhì 小小miǎo xiangweizhiqiangjiāng 唳lì 瞞 shrimp lài há ma

Yiranyí soil gravel lì gully hè huge thing páng

4 , master the following polysyllabic words.

Shrimp: A xiā Xing: A xīng

B há B xìng

5. Analyze the similar characters:

Hai háo is intended to be nǐ Yi yí gravel lì

Hao háo resembles sì Yi yí shuò

shì almost dài 锄shuò

6. One word has multiple meanings.

The A particle is equivalent to "of". "There is an interest in things outside of things"

B pronoun. "Look up and watch"

A means passive. "With one tongue, the two insects were swallowed up"

B as. "Use clumps of grass as forests"

Use A. "Blow out the smoke"

B. "Using insects and ants as beasts"

View A scene. "Viewing the blue clouds and white cranes"

B Look. "Look up and observe"

Content analysis

Overall perception

1. Study the text.

The author of this article writes in the first person and uses meticulous artistic techniques to recall three interesting things around the "interests outside things": The first thing is to regard summer mosquitoes as a group of cranes. The smoke makes it fly through the smoke and cheer happily. The second thing is to regard the bumps and valleys of the earthen wall, flowers and grass beside the flower bed as nature; the third thing is to regard the toad as a huge monster that "uproots the mountain and knocks down the tree", and writes how to punish the toad, which expresses the childhood feelings. Innocence. These three "interesting" things are not that the "objects" themselves are "interesting", but that people endow them with spirituality and life. As a result, the extremely ordinary little creatures become the eyes and hearts of the author. The landscapes lit up and came alive. It can be seen that the "interest outside things" lies in being good at observation and imagination, so that interest can be generated from things.

2. The purpose of the article.

This is an article full of innocence and childishness. The author uses vivid writing style to fully develop associations and imagination, recalling his childhood life, expressing the "interest outside things" and reflecting the rich imagination of children. and innocent childlike fun.

3. The structure of the article.

The article does not have a coherent plot, but only narrates the interesting things in childhood life first and then separately. The full text can be divided into two parts:

The first part (1) always writes about being good at observing small things in childhood, seeing the beauty in small things that others cannot see, and having transcendent pleasure.

The second part (2-4): Write specifically about the curiosity of observing scenery in childhood. This part writes about three things: observing mosquitoes flying, observing the vegetation on the flower bed, observing insect fights, and driving away shrimps and toads.

The whole text focuses on the word "interesting", which reminds children of the magical and wonderful inner world.

Detailed analysis

1. Referring to the annotations, what does the author refer to by the "interest outside things"?

"Object outside" refers to something beyond the thing itself. "Interest in things" is the pleasure the author derives from creating new images in his mind that go beyond the original characteristics of things based on the images of natural scenery in front of him. It is a spiritual experience. The author magnifies, beautifies, emotionalizes, and idealizes these three natural objects, making them feel infinitely mysterious and enjoy them. This is the "interest outside the objects." This shows that the author already had spontaneous aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic taste when he was young.

2. How to create "interest outside things"?

①Strong eyesight

②Love to observe

③With rich associations and imagination

④Have certain aesthetic ability

3. What inspiration does this text give us?

Association and imagination are the basis of innovation. If we want to cultivate innovation ability, we must first cultivate our ability to associate and imagine. We must maintain the unique curiosity and fantasy characteristics of teenagers, have the courage to practice, love nature, love life, have the courage to practice, and be a person who dares to think, dare to do, dare to explore, and can discover and recognize beauty.

4. Find common idioms in the text and explain them.

⑴Clearly aware of everything: It is a metaphor for a person who is very shrewd and can see any small problem clearly.

⑵ Contentment: Describes a feeling of being comfortable, happy and satisfied.

⑶ Behemoth: describes something that looks huge in appearance.

Text translation

I recall that when I was young, I could look directly at the sun with my eyes wide open. My eyesight was very good. Whenever I encountered small things, I had to observe them carefully. Texture, so you can often feel the fun of transcending the things themselves.

In the summer night, the mosquitoes made a thunderous cry. I compared them to a group of cranes flying in the sky. When I thought about it, there were literally thousands of white cranes in front of me. Looking up at them, Even my neck became stiff. I left a few mosquitoes in the white tent and slowly sprayed them with smoke so that they flew and screamed into the smoke, forming a picture of white cranes on the blue clouds. It was really like a group of cranes screaming on the edge of the blue clouds. Makes me very happy.

I often squat down in places with uneven earth walls or overgrown weeds on flower beds, making my body as high as the platform. I regard the grass as a forest, and the insects and mosquitoes as wild beasts. Treating the bulging parts of the clod as hills and the depressed parts as ravines, I traveled around this realm based on my imagination, feeling happy and satisfied.

One day, I saw two small insects fighting in the grass. I squatted down to observe. I was very interested. Suddenly, a huge beast came up from the mountain and knocked down the tree. It turned out that It was a toad, and as soon as it stuck out its tongue, it ate up both bugs. I was very young at the time, and I was fascinated by what I saw, and I couldn't help but scream in surprise. When he regained consciousness, he caught the toad, whipped it dozens of times, and drove it to another yard.

Shen Fu (1763-1825), courtesy name Sanbai and nickname Meiyi, was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) in the 28th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty. In the forty-second year of Qianlong's reign (1777), he went to Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province with his father to study. In the forty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign (1784), Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River, and Shen Fu followed his father to greet the emperor. Later he went to Suzhou to engage in the wine industry.

In the 13th year of Jiaqing (1808), he wrote the autobiographical novel "Six Chapters of a Floating Life".

●Shen Fu (1763～?) was a Chinese writer in the Qing Dynasty. The courtesy name is Sanbai and the nickname is Meiyi. A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu. A staff member all his life. "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is his autobiographical prose. It describes that he and his wife Chen Yun had similar interests and deep feelings, and they were willing to live a life of commoners, vegetarians and engaged in art. However, due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the hardships of poor life, their ideals were never realized, and they experienced the pain of life and death.

This kind of subject matter describing the family life between couples is indeed rare in ancient Chinese literary works. "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" originally had six chapters, but four are now available: "Records of Joy in the Boudoir", "Records of Leisure Love", "Records of Sorrows in Ups and Downs", and "Records of Wandering Travels". The last two records, "Zhongshan Chronicles" and "Health Preservation Records", have been lost. "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" published by World Book Company in 1935, the last two chapters are fake. This book is available in several editions. The version edited by Yu Pingbo is the best, and is accompanied by the "Chronology of Six Notes of a Floating Life". There are many translations in English, French, German, and Russian.

●Shen Fu (1763-about 1807), also known as Sanbai, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Shen Fu was neither a scholar nor a scholar. He was born in a "family of fine clothes" and studied as a student. However, he later learned business and later made a living by selling paintings and traveled around the world. "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is one of his autobiographical works. There are six chapters in the book, hence the name "Six Notes". Now we have finished the second part. The book records the joys of the boudoir, the harmonious play of the piano and the harp, and the deep affection; it records the leisurely and elegant tastes, the temperament of the poor, their likes and dislikes; it records the ups and downs of life, the hardships, separations, and human sentiments; it records the various places. Wander around and see the scenic spots, interesting anecdotes and interesting sights. Lin Yutang, a master of modern Chinese literature, once translated "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" into English and introduced it to the United States, which was also praised by famous writers such as Yu Pingbo.

●Shen Fu was born in the 30th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1765), and his death year is unknown. The courtesy name is Sanbai, a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Poetry, painting and prose. No written records of his life have been found so far. According to "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", he was born in a family of aides, never took the imperial examination, and once made a living by selling paintings. He has a deep relationship with his wife Chen Yun. Due to family changes, the couple lived abroad for many years and experienced many ups and downs. After his wife's death, he went to Sichuan to serve as a staff member. What happened after that is unknown.

"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" consists of six volumes. Each volume has a subtitle, which are "Records of Joy in the Boudoir", "Records of Leisure Love", "Records of Sorrows in Ups and Downs", "Records of Wandering Travels" and "Zhongshan". "Calendar" and "Health Preservation Notes". According to research, the last two volumes are forgeries and the writing is not as good as before.

★Six Chapters of a Floating Life

"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" was written by Shen Fu (alias Sanbai, pseudonym Meiyi) from Changzhou in the Qing Dynasty in the 13th year of Jiaqing (1808) Autobiographical novel. 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?".

Version

The Wen Zun Pavilion board "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is the earliest printed board, with a preface to Yang Yin's biography and a postscript by Wang Tao, the "King of Zun Wen Pavilion". The preface to Yang Yin's biography states that "two of the six records are missing." Wang Tao once said that he had read this book when he was young (before 1847), but unfortunately he did not make a copy. He often missed it when he was in exile in Hong Kong. In the postscript written by Wang Tao for the Zunwen Pavilion edition in 1877, he did not mention that he had seen the full version when he was a child.

In 1936, Lin Yutang translated four chapters of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" into English and serialized them in the monthly "Tianxia". Later, a Chinese-English bilingual version was published with a long preface. Lin Yutang wrote in the preface, "Yun, I think, is one of the loveliest women in Chinese literature." He also guessed that "there must be a complete copy in the Suzhou family collection or in a used bookstore."

Not long after that, a "complete manuscript" appeared on a cold stall in Suzhou. There were five volumes and six volumes, which were actually forged by later generations.

Yu Pingbo once wrote the "Chronology of the Six Chapters of a Floating Life" based on the first four chapters of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life".

Table of Contents of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life"

Volume 1: Joy in the Boudoir

Volume 2: Leisure and Fun

Volume 3: Ups and Downs: Sorrow

Volume 4: Travel Notes of Langlang

Volume 5: Zhongshan Calendar

Volume 6: Health Preservation Notes

Translations from around the world

This book is available in multiple languages. There are three English translations available, as well as one each in German, French, Danish, Swedish, Japanese and Malay.

Shen Fu, courtesy name Sanbai, was born in Suzhou (now Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province) in the Qing Dynasty. Born in the 28th year of Qianlong (1763 AD) and died in unknown year.

However, according to the "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" written by "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", the events recorded in the book were finally recorded in the autumn of the twelfth year of Jiaqing (1807 AD). From this, it is inferred that his death It will be after this year.

Shen Fu's character was straightforward and unruly. He did not take part in the imperial examinations and did not admire officials. He spent his life as a businessman, painter, staff member, and

a celebrity. His wife, Chen Yun, also known as Shuzhen, was the same age as him. She was talented in poetry and prose, and was talented and thoughtful.

They are a loving couple, and there is a world of contentment in their simple and tranquil life. The deeds of his life can be found in his book "Six Chapters of a Floating Life". Currently, only four of them exist, including , , ;,

lt;Wandering Travels Quickly gt;. An allusion to Li Bai's "Life is like a dream, how much joy can there be?"

Shen Fu (San Bai) described the past of growing orchids, saying that a friend gave him a pot of lotus-petal plain heart orchids, which he treasured with Gongbi.

In less than two years, it suddenly withered! It turns out that someone also loved the orchid very much. He wanted to share it but couldn't, so he used boiling water to kill the orchid.

Shen Fu was so angry that he "swore not to plant orchids" from now on. One has such a tantrum. It's really not hygienic

. How stupid you are to subject yourself to torture when others make mistakes! He should not "swear not to plant orchids", but

should "work hard to plant orchids"; planting orchids all over the garden can firstly fulfill his wish to love orchids, and secondly, it can make him angry

How wonderful it is to kill that bad guy who harmed Lan!

The first time I read "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" was around 1980. I liked it very much at that time. In Yang Xu's words, I was "enthralled after reading it." Later, I would take out "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" and read it from time to time.

The year before last, I had the opportunity to travel to East China and stayed in Suzhou for one night. That night I went to look for Shen Fu’s old residence next to Canglang Pavilion. Turning in from Dongwu Avenue, there is a small road several meters wide, which is Canglang Road. Walking in for a few dozen meters, you will be across a small river. Opposite is Canglangting Park, which is accessible by a bridge. The park is closed at night, so you can't get in. There are no street lights in that area, so it's very dark. I asked a couple on the road if they knew the location of the former residence of Shen Fu, the author of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life". They said they didn't know. It seemed that they didn't even know about a book like "Six Chapters of a Floating Life". Walking a little further, close to Canglang Pavilion, there is a large memorial hall, which belongs to a painter. I remember it is the memorial hall of Yan Wenliang. I turned to the back of the memorial hall, where there was a dense area of ??old houses and residences. The alley was only about two or three meters wide. I randomly walked into a hotel owner's house and chatted with the old man who was looking after the shop for a while. Later, his son came out and chatted with me for a while. They don't know "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" or Shen Fu. When talking about Yan Wenliang, they seemed very proud, saying that the old man had seen Yan Wenliang with his own eyes when he was a child. I then asked about Cangmi Alley mentioned in "Six Chapters of a Floating Life". They said that there was indeed such an alley, but it had disappeared due to the renovation of the old city in the past few years. That was my only takeaway from the night.

I heard that Lin Yutang looked for Shen Fu’s former residence once before, but could not find it. It seems that Shen Fu’s former residence is gone. There are so many cultural relics in Suzhou that the government may not even pay attention to a small person like Shen Fu who has never received any fame.