"Six stories of Floating Life" takes the life of the author Shen Fu and his wife as the main line, and narrates what they saw and heard about the ordinary and interesting life at home. The work describes the life of the author and his wife Chen Yun, who want to live a kind of cloth clothes and vegetarianism and engage in art. Because of the oppression of feudal ethics and the suffering of poor life, their ideals are finally broken.The whole article is nearly 40000 words, saying that the world is sweet and sour.