Shen Fu

Shen Fu The book Shen Fus Six Records of a go Life is both an recital and live invoice of a globe named Shen Fu, who was educated toward the path to grow up to be a scholar, save he unbroken on failing the exams. He went on to earn his living as secretary for a magistrate and also marketing off his married wo creations artwork. His married woman is the girl that he fell had go in love with as a young child. Together, they had a real weird and odd relationship (at least compared to our new day idea of a relationship).I guess that Shen Fu unfeignedly wished the big communication channel as the magistrate, but it also seemed equal he didnt really want to work very hard for the position. perhaps he was a tad on the lazy side of things. He grew up in a rather bookish heart and soul class family and he worn proscribed(p) much of his life stressful to submit the exam. The only problem was that he kept failing it over and over again, and did never demonstrablely get around to transit it. Shen Fu seemed to focus a propagate of his tending on post, and I commemorate that it was in the main due to his family and his social class that he was born into.It seems to me that the gameer status you had foul then, the to a greater extent you focused on status and put being born of high class up on a pedestal. Shen Fu his whole life was seeking this Floating Life which basically means that youre economically secure, and that life is a more of a dream rather than actual reality. I model he was incessantly seeking this because he was always trying to figure out how to make a intimately deal more money, or to get a desirable learned position. Shen Fu, in my opinion, was rather greedy and materialistic, and was mostly out for himself.Although, to be fair, he did house for his family by taking on some(prenominal) contrary kinds of arguments, loans, and even by attempting to stag his wifes artwork. This book is real better cognise being a love tarradiddle. Though it is much divers(prenominal) then what we think a love fabrication should traditionally consist of. Shen Fu was known for spending a lot of magazine with Prostitutes, and his wife seemed ok with it, she even went and put together him a concubine. Shen Fu basically viewed his wife as his equal, rather than looking reduce on her as a woman, this was a very rare view for a man to gift considering the time and place this took story took course.Most traditional loves stories would make this story step forward crazy, this is mostly because the more traditional thought of love is between two concourse sharing and expressing mutual feelings for each another(prenominal). be intimate is generally not thought of as the wife going out and intrusive for a good Concubine for her husband to sleep with. However, I think the more romantic and warming part of the story was that Shen Fu and his wife, Yun, enjoyed reading, drinking, and writing poetry together. I r eally think that they genuinely enjoyed each others company.Another reason why this story could be view as a bit of a romance, was because Shen Fu was really act to sustainmenting his family by working and taking on many jobs and responsibilities. His dedication to his wife was pretty romantic in and of itself. I didnt think that Shen Fu was a filial son because there was a lot of conflict between his family. Think that a lot of the conflict was because he went down in class and never did begin 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 replete and was a somewhat of a trial to them. I would consider Shen Fu in the dishonor to middle class, because, he never got the job as a magistrate and didnt engage enough money to adequately support his family, so he has to sell off his wifes artwork. I would believably put him in the lower class, but the fact that he came from a middle class family and had a concu bine cleverness put him a little on the higher side of classes. I think that this story of Shen Fus life does hence exemplify the typical lifestyle during the Qing Dynasty.Shen Fu and his wife both viewed each other as equals, which back then was really different from the norm. How he focused mush of his circumspection 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 cat valium back then. Overall, I thought that it was rattling a pretty interesting book. It emphatically wasnt what I was expecting, and It gave a good example of how life was for his class during the Qing era.