Shen Fu
Shen Fu
Shen Fu (December 26, 1763-1832?) He was born in Changzhou, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was a writer of the Qing Dynasty.
He was born in 1763 in the 28th year of Qianlong reign of Qing Dynasty. He did not take part in the imperial examination. He once made a living by selling paintings. At the age of 19, he made a living and then moved around the country for more than 40 years. Later, he went to Suzhou to engage in wine industry.
He and his wife Chen Yun have a good relationship. Because of family changes, they lived in other places and experienced ups and downs. After his wife died, he went to Sichuan to work as an aide. At the age of 46, he was sent to Ryukyu with the Qing envoys. He retired from his hometown at the age of 47 to 48. At the age of 49 to 60, he stayed in Rugao, and returned to his hometown after the age of 61.
He wrote six volumes of autobiographical work six chapters of a floating life (two volumes later lost), which had a great influence. In 1936, Lin Yutang translated this work into English and published it abroad.
brief introduction
Shen Fu (after 1763-1825) was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) on November 22, the 28th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. He was a writer and writer in Qing Dynasty. He is the author of six chapters of a floating life. Poetry, painting and prose. No record of his life has been found so far.
According to six chapters of a floating life, he came from a family of aides, never took the imperial examination, and once made a living by selling paintings. In 1777, he went to Shaoxing with his father to study. In 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 wine industry. He and his wife Chen Yun have a good relationship. Because of family changes, they lived in other places and experienced ups and downs. After his wife died, he went to Sichuan to work as an aide. Since then, the situation has not been clear.
According to textual research, the last two volumes are fake, and the writing is not as good as before.
Life
He was an official with his father. He studied in Anhui Jixi, Shanghai Qingpu, Jiangsu Yangzhou, Hubei Jingzhou and Shandong Laiyang. Middle age business. Shen Fu is good at landscape, painting and prose. Apart from six chapters of a floating life, there are only a few poems on Wanghai, Youshan in the rain and paintings.
In Jiaqing period, Shen Fu was sent to Ryukyu as a "Si Bi Yan". After returning to China, he worked as an assistant in Rugao, Jiangsu Province for a long time.
Six chapters of a floating life
brief introduction
It's an autobiographical work of his, a memoir written by Shen Fu. "Floating Life" takes the meaning of floating in one's life, which originates from Li Bai's emotion of "floating life is like a dream, for joy".
The original six chapters of floating life have four existing ones: the music of boudoir, the fun of leisure, the sorrow of frustrations and the travel of waves. The latter two chapters, Zhongshan calendar and health preserving Road, have been lost. They narrate the experiences of most of their lives in simple style, contrasting happiness with sorrow, which is truly moving.
Lin Yutang, a great master of modern Chinese literature, 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.
In 1849, Wang Tao wrote a postscript for the book, praising it as "touching and sorrowful between the pen and ink, and deeply devoted." "Six chapters of a floating life" and other books adopt the technique of "preface and postscript".
characteristic
The autobiographical novel six chapters of a floating life was written from May to October in 1808.
In his simple style, the author narrates the experience of most of his life. The happy part contrasts with the sad part, which is really moving. The book describes that he and his wife Chen Yun share the same interests, and they are deeply attached to each other. They are willing to live a life of clothing and vegetables and engage in art. Due to the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally shattered and they experience the pain of life and death. After Li Qingzhao's "preface to jinshilu" in Song Dynasty and GUI Youguang's "Xiang Ji Xuan Zhi" in Ming Dynasty, the author describes the family life between husband and wife in six chapters of a floating life for a long time, which is rare in ancient Chinese literature. The book has unique comments on landscape architecture, food and daily life.
During the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, Yang Yinchuan got the manuscript of this book at Suzhou cold stand, and the last two books were lost. In 1849, Wang Tao wrote a postscript for it, praising the book for its "lingering sadness and deep love between pen and ink". In 1877, Yang Yinchuan was handed over to Shanghai declaration office for typesetting, 70 years after its completion. In 1935, six chapters of a full floating life were included in the series of beautifying masterpieces published by the world book company, and the two supplements were all fake works.
introduce
Six chapters of a floating life is an autobiographical novel written in 1808 by Shen Fu of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the Qing Dynasty. Yang Yinchuan, the wife and brother of Wang Tao in the Qing Dynasty, found the manuscript of six chapters of a floating life on a cold stall in Suzhou, which had only four volumes. He handed it to Wang Tao, who was in charge of the declaration of wenzunge in Shanghai at that time, and published it in movable type in 1877. According to the two dictionaries of "Floating Life", in Li Bai's poem preface to the spring banquet from my younger brother's peach and plum garden, "those who are in heaven and earth are the adverse journey of all things; those who are in time are the passers-by of a hundred generations. And floating life is like a dream, for joy.
Content summary
"Six chapters of a floating life" takes the author's and his wife's life as the main line, and wins what they see and hear from the ordinary and interesting life at home. The work describes that the author and his wife Chen Yun fall in love and want to live an artistic life. Because of the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideal is finally shattered. The text of this book is fresh and true, without any trace of carving and ornamentation. The plot of this book is that the couple are deeply attached to each other until death. It begins with joy and ends with sorrow and moving. In addition, this book also contains the famous work "memory of Yingmei nunnery" written by a famous Qing Dynasty scholar, Huoxiang, in memory of Dong Xiaowan, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai.
edition
Wen Zun Ge Ban's six chapters of a floating life is the earliest printed plate, which includes the preface of Yang Yin's biography and Wang Tao's postscript of "Zun Wen Ge Wang". In the preface of Yang's biography, he said that "six chapters are missing two". Wang Tao once said that he had read this book in his youth (before 1847 A.D.), but there was no copy. When he was in exile in Hong Kong, he often missed it. In his postscript to Zunwen Pavilion edition in 1849, Wang Tao did not say that he had seen the whole edition when he was young.
In 1936, Lin Yutang translated four chapters of six chapters of a floating life into English and serialized them in Tianxia monthly. Later, a Chinese English bilingual booklet was published with a long preface. In his preface, Lin Yutang wrote, "Yun, I think, is the most lovely woman in Chinese literature." He also guessed that "there must be a complete book in Suzhou's home collection or old bookshop.".
Soon after that, a "complete manuscript" appeared on the cold stand in Suzhou. There were five volumes and six volumes, which were actually made by later generations.
According to the first four chapters of six chapters of a floating life, Yu Pingbo made a chronology of six chapters of a floating life.
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Contents of six chapters of a floating life
Volume I "boudoir music"
Volume 2 leisure
Volume 3: a tale of frustrations
Volume 4 "a journey to the waves"
Volume 5 "Zhongshan calendar"
Volume 6 health preservation
note appended
In the autumn of 2005, Peng Ling, a native of Pingyao, found a handwritten copy of Ji Shi Zhu on the ghost market of Chaotian Palace in Nanjing. After expert identification, it is confirmed that it is the first draft of the fifth volume of the six chapters of a floating life by Shen Fu, a writer of the Qing Dynasty.
Shen Fu described the Qing mission's experience of passing by Diaoyu Islands in the fifth record of the annals of the sea in six chapters of a floating life.
In 1808 (the 13th year of Jiaqing), the imperial court made a decree to canonize the king of Ryukyu. Qi Kun, the Taishi, was sent as the chief envoy and Fei Xizhang, the Shiyu, as the Deputy envoy. Shen Fu, as the "Si Bi Yan" of the Taishi, also went there.
It is recorded as follows: "in the 13th year of Jiaqing, there was a decree to canonize the king of Ryukyu On the 13th, the Diaoyu Island was carved like a penholder. As a sacrifice to Heishuigou, he prayed to Tian hou On the morning of the fourteenth, I saw that Gumi mountain had entered the Ryukyu boundary... "
Shen Fu's six chapters of a floating life was included in the second grade Chinese textbook of pep.
A paragraph in Shen Fu's six chapters of a floating life, notes of leisure, is included in the first volume of the first grade Chinese textbook of the people's education press.
Part of Shen Fu's "six chapters of a floating life" is also included in the first volume of the first grade Chinese textbook of Jiangsu Education Press, which is called "childhood interest".
A section of Shen Fu's six chapters of a floating life, notes on leisure, is also included in the first volume of the first grade Chinese textbook of Heda edition, which is called notes on childishness.
Translations from all over the world
The book is written in many languages
translation
. There are three English versions available, including one from Germany, one from France, one from Denmark, one from Sweden, one from Japan and one from Malaysia.
English translation
The earliest English version was Lin Yutang's Chinese English version in 1936. Later, Oxford University Press published the English version of six chapters of a floating life in 1960. In the 1980s, there were English versions by Bai Lun and Jiang Suhui from Penguin publishing house. The translation will be published by Yilin publishing house in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province as one of the "Greater China Libraries".
Six chapters of offloadinglife.
CHAPTERSFROMAFLOATINGLIFETheAutobiogr aphyofaChineseArtist.tr.Black , ShirleyM.OxfordUniversityPress ,1960
SixRecordsofaFloatingLife：ShenFu;Pratt,Leonard;Su-Hui,Chiang。 NewYork:VikingPr ,1983；ISBN0140444297
German version
ShenFu:SechsAufzeichnungen übereinunstetesLe
Chinese PinYin : Shen Fu
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