Aesthetics' Meaning Of "Six Chapters Of A Floating Life"

"Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is a short prose of autobiographical form, which is created by Shen Fu, Qing dynasty. The history about its research has been 130 years. To read the existing literatures which can be tested, I found that the studies about it are either from the angle of literatures or from the literary and artistic theory. The specific study on it is mainly in the authenticity of text, the features of genre artistic about text, the thoughts of text, as well as the comparative studies with the other similar works, which is in such a great background like Ming and Qing Dynasties. But the study of the rich and profound aesthetic implication which is hidden in "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" seems rarely be involved at present.With its indifferent writing, "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is full of the enthusiasm for life, flowing the emotion's rapids, hidden the true meaning of life. This article analyze the creation background and characteristics, that are the two major aspects of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life", so as to capture the two main line of thinking: The real life attitude and the surpassed quality of philosophy. The main aesthetic implication of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life" is embodied in the following aspects: to focus mood aesthetic of Kong Ling,elegant,harmonious and the aesthetic spirit of Qing in one, being full of aesthetic interesting in daily life, hidden with profound implication means of life's aesthetic. And the main performances of the implication means in life's aesthetic are the real attitude towards life, the sad and dreary means of life for nothing and the surpassed philosophy of life. The aesthetic significance of "Six Chapters of a Floating Life "exists in: to taste the real aesthetic style of the daily life by a leisurely approach of life; to cultivate the individual life and the aesthetic attitude towards life using the wisdom of Chuang Chan.