From Li Bai's Preface to the Spring Banquet in Peach and Plum Garden.
Heaven and earth, the guest house of all things, time, passers-by, life is short, things are unpredictable, dreams, happiness geometry?
Reading Six Chapters of a Floating Life only needs to read the name, and my heart is half calm. I don't talk much, but it's hard to let go and stop.
Author Shen Fu (1763- 1825), whose real name is born at the bank of Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou, where "the trees cover the windows and people and paintings are all green". ? Teenagers travel with their fathers, study and practice, and work as aides in Jixi, Qingpu, Shanghai, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Jingzhou, Shandong, Laiyang and Sichuan. During the period, due to family changes such as high debts and his wife's illness, he made a living by selling paintings and wine. Although he was not born in a rich family, he was born in the "peaceful and prosperous times", "I can say that the sky is very thick"; Although his rank is less than half, he also wandered between pavilions as an adjutant. Although not famous, you can still draw friends and taste poems.
His wife, Chen Yun, is two childlike children, childhood sweethearts in youth, Mei Qi in youth, talking about poetry and singing together, advancing and retreating hand in hand in middle age. I don't live long, I am mentally injured, and I will eventually break Yangzhou.
The small feelings and interests mentioned in the article make people sigh that people at that time also had such interests in their lives.
Momei lunch boxes
"I prefer small drinks to many dishes. I want to buy a plum blossom box: six two-inch white magnetic discs, one in the middle and five outside, painted gray, looking like plum blossoms, with a concave bottom and a flower-like stem on the lid. Set the desk, like a plum blossom covering the table; When you turn on the light, it looks like a dish in a petal, a box of six colors. Two or three confidants can eat it at will and add it after eating. Make a short disc, which can hold cups, chopsticks, hip flask and the like, and can be placed anywhere for easy movement. That is, the end of grain saving. "
Hexiangcha
"When the lotus in Xia Yue first opened, it opened in the evening. I pinch a little tea with a small gauze bag, put it in a flower heart, take it out tomorrow morning and cook it in spring water. It is very fragrant. "
Homemade incense
"Quiet room to burn incense, elegant at leisure. I tasted the fragrance at low speed, steamed it thoroughly in the rice cooker, set up a copper wire rack on the stove, and slowly baked it from the fire. The fragrance was quiet and smokeless. "
Live vase
Each screen fan uses two wooden tips to make a short stool, which is about four or five inches long. There are four pieces in the virtual middle school, one foot wide, with round eyes at the four corners and bamboo in the square eyes. The screen is about six or seven feet high. Lentils are planted in a sand basin, put in a screen, and the plate is spread out on the screen, so that two people can move. Fill a few more screens and cover them at will, as if the windows are full of shade, the wind is blocking the sun, and the twists and turns can be changed at any time. Therefore, it is called a living screen. With this method, all vines and herbs can be used anywhere. This is a good way to live in a real country.
Shen's copied words made me wander in the flowers, trees and pavilions more than 200 years ago. At that time, Suzhou was a commercial center city as famous as Beijing, Hankou and Foshan, and it was what Cao Xueqin called "the most prosperous and romantic place in the world of mortals". Shen Fu died at the age of 62, less than 40 years after 1863 when Li Hongzhang "washed the city". The bustling city is like a dream, the world is still like this, and life is even more so. As Dongpo said, "Things are like spring dreams."
But with the words "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", a trace of all sentient beings is presented on the paper.
201910 June 14