Shen Fu

Shen Fu The hold in Shen Fus Six Records of a float flavour is two an autobiography and roll in the hay grade of a man named Shen Fu, who was educated toward the path to grow up to be a scholar, but he kept on flunk the exams. He went on to earn his living as secretary for a magistrate and also selling move stunned his wifes art cypher. His wife is the fille that he fell had fallen in chicane with as a boy want child. To bindher, they had a very weird and erratic relationship (at least compared to our modern twenty-four hours idea of a relationship).I forecast that Shen Fu real wanted the spectacular job as the magistrate, but it also seemed like he didnt really want to work very hard for the position. Perhaps he was a tad on the ineffectual side of things. He grew up in a quite an scholarly heart section family and he spent sights of his life trying to pass the exam. The notwithstanding problem was that he kept failing it over and over again, and did ne ver very get around to passing it. Shen Fu seemed to counselling a lot of his attention on status, and I deliberate that it was largely referable to his family and his social kin that he was innate(p) into.It seems to me that the higher(prenominal) status you had plunk for whence, the more than you focused on status and endow being born of high class up on a pedestal. Shen Fu his all life was quest this Floating Life which basically means that youre economically secure, and that life is a more of a dream rather than actual reality. I thought he was always seeking this because he was always trying to get in out how to make a heartfelt deal more money, or to get a desirable scholarly position. Shen Fu, in my opinion, was rather greedy and materialistic, and was broadly speaking out for himself.Although, to be fair, he did provide for his family by taking on many unalike kinds of jobs, loans, and even by attempting to sell his wifes artwork. This book is actually break out known being a delight boloney. Though it is much different then what we think a love story should conventionally consist of. Shen Fu was known for expending a lot of time with Prostitutes, and his wife seemed ok with it, she even went and found him a concubine. Shen Fu basically viewed his wife as his equal, rather than looking down on her as a woman, this was a very sublime view for a man to live considering the time and place this took story took course.Most traditional loves stories would make this story appear crazy, this is mostly because the more traditional thought of love is between two people overlap and expressing mutual feelings for each other. Love is generally not thought of as the wife going out and searching for a good Concubine for her husband to kip with. However, I think the more quixotic and warming part of the story was that Shen Fu and his wife, Yun, enjoyed reading, drink, and piece of music poetry together. I actually think that they genuinely enjoyed each others company.Another rea tidings why this story could be view as a geek of a romance, was because Shen Fu was really committed to supporting(a) his family by working and taking on many jobs and responsibilities. His dedication to his wife was middling romantic in and of itself. I didnt think that Shen Fu was a filial son because there was a lot of involvement between his family. Think that a lot of the conflict was because he went down in class and never did become a magistrate like he and his family had hoped he would.It seems like his family viewed at him as if he didnt try hard plentiful and was a somewhat of a failure to them. I would consider Shen Fu in the lower to position class, because, he never got the job as a magistrate and didnt have enough money to adequately support his family, so he has to sell off his wifes artwork. I would probably gravel him in the lower class, but the situation that he came from a middle class family and had a concubine mig ht frame up him a little on the higher side of classes. I think that this story of Shen Fus life does indeed interpret the typical lifestyle during the Qing Dynasty.Shen Fu and his wife both viewed each other as equals, which corroborate then was really different from the norm. How he focused mush of his attention on status was a really big thing during the Qing era, and how he aspired to have a floating life style. I think it also showed how that even though he had a wife, he went out drinking with prostitutes and with his Concubine, which seems like it was pretty common back then. Overall, I thought that it was actually a pretty interesting book. It definitely wasnt what I was expecting, and It gave a good vitrine of how life was for his class during the Qing era.