Extracts from Shen Fu's memoir Six Records of a Floating Life. Six Records of a Floating Life, also translated into English as Six Records of a Life Adrift, is an autobiography by Shen Fu, who lived in Changzhou (now Suzhou) during the Qing dynasty. The four extant records are "Wedded Bliss", "The Little Pleasures of Life", "Sorrow", and "The Joys of Travel". Two further "records" are lost (or perhaps were never completed): "A History of Life at Zhongshan" and "The Way of Living". (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)