Qian Yong, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was a famous scholar and calligrapher in Qing Dynasty. I have been a screen guest for a long time and traveled all over the country. Poetry, good at painting and calligraphy. Even today, his Mo Bao can still be seen everywhere, such as Yue Ming Tower in Yangzhou and Qian Muzhai Tomb in Changshu. He is the author of Poems in the Garden, Poems in the Garden, Lin Lan Collection and Meixi Poems.
Six Chapters of a Floating Life is Shen Fu's autobiographical work, followed by Boudoir, Leisure, Sorrow, Travels on a Wandering Journey, Sun Yat-sen Calendar and Health Preservation. Yang Yinchuan, the brother-in-law of Wang Tao, a Shanghai journalist in the Qing Dynasty, found the remnant manuscript of Six Chapters of a Floating Life in a cold stall in Suzhou, and only saved four volumes, which were given to Wang Tao and printed in 1877. Since the publication of Six Chapters of a Floating Life, it has not only been liked by the people, but also praised by scholars, and is known as the "Little Dream of Red Mansions". From 65438 to 0936, Lin Yutang translated four chapters of Six Chapters of a Floating Life into English. Yu Pingbo once commented on this book as "like a pure crystal, I saw the bright jade, but I didn't see the color of the bright jade, I saw the subtlety, but I didn't see the subtle traces of production".