"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is an autobiographical prose novel written by Shen Fu, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty. He narrates the experience of most of his life with a simple style of writing, and the contrast between joy and sorrow is vivid and moving. The book describes that he and his wife Chen Yun share similar interests and love each other deeply, but due to the suffering of poverty, their ideals are finally shattered and they experience...