From Shen Fu's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life".

It means wishing that someone can enjoy the sunset with you, that someone can provide you with food and clothing, and ask you if the porridge is still warm.

It expresses that there are thousands of forms of love, but the best destination is companionship. Only good food and companionship can gently wrap around the stomach and loneliness. Snow foam milk flowers, polygonum wormwood and bamboo shoots, three cups and two cups of wild vegetables, with someone to accompany you in the morning light or afterglow, eating this bowl of steaming porridge... it is the taste of happiness. You want to conquer the world, I just want to conquer one person’s stomach and heart.

Extended information:

Six Chapters of a Floating Life is an autobiographical essay of extremely high standard and great influence, which occupies a very important position in Qing Dynasty notebook literature. The characteristics of this book are that it is pure and straightforward, expresses one's own spirit, is informal and creative.

This creativity is first reflected in its subject matter and description objects. In the book, the author narrates the joy of the couple's boudoir in an affectionate and straightforward style, and writes about the true love between husband and wife.

In the history of Chinese literature, there are many poems and essays describing love, but most of them write about palace romances, or about love tragedies under the despotic power of power, etiquette, and law, or about romantic close friends and the entanglement between boys and girls, and very few. Involves the love between husband and wife.

Chen Yinke, who has a unique insight, pointed out: "Our country's literature has always been concerned about etiquette and law, so it dare not talk much about the relationship between men and women, and it is especially rarely involved in the formal relationship between men and women, such as husband and wife.

The affection of the boudoir and the trivial matters of the family's obsession with salt are mostly not listed in the chapter, but can only be summarized in general words. Later, Shen Sanbai's "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" wrote "The Joy of the Boudoir". , so create for exceptions.

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Reference materials

Baidu Encyclopedia-Six Chapters of a Floating Life