Discover the most beautiful realm of life with eyes that seek beauty

If you find life dull,

it ultimately comes down to lacking a heart that understands beauty.

People who understand beauty live on a different plane.

They are deeply affectionate toward those around them and the matters before their eyes,

and their spiritual world is vast.

Wang Han says his favorite book is Six Records of a Floating Life,

because this deeply heartfelt little book

often reminds him to discover everything around him with eyes that seek beauty.

Six Records of a Floating Life is "the most beautiful love letter in ancient China,"

unsurpassed by later prose.

Reading it, you will sigh, "Such deep affection, and no regrets looking back."

For deep affection, there is Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life

And for supreme beauty, there is Wang Guowei's Poetic Remarks in the Human World

Poetic Remarks in the Human World was written by the great scholar of Chinese classics Wang Guowei,

China's most influential work of ci criticism in a century.

Anyone who wishes to grasp the subtleties of Chinese ci poetry must read this book.

If you want to understand what beauty is,

you must read Mr. Wang Guowei's Poetic Remarks in the Human World.

This is an extremely beautiful book,

with just tens of thousands of characters, not a single sentence that is not beautiful, not a single passage that is not elegant.

This book will show you another realm of poetry.

Appreciate poetry through life, and grasp life through poetry.

This is the greatest value Wang Guowei left to later generations.

Though these two books are short in length, they are rich and full. No wonder Lin Yutang, Yu Pingbo, Zhu Guangqian, Fu Lei and other great figures all praised their exquisite beauty.

Now, this "Most Beautiful Collector's Edition" set of Six Records of a Floating Life and Poetic Remarks in the Human World not onlyincludes authoritative and complete original texts，but alsocomes with beautiful translations by the renowned poet Zhou Gongdu, clear and easy to read。

This set"No. 1 bestseller on Amazon's overall books chart"of good books comes with exquisite illustrations by famous artists,and flipping through it at random is a pleasure.

Six Records of a Floating Life

The poetic and wine-filled love words of Shen Fu and Yunniang

A philosophy of love and life that will move your heart

The love story of Shen Fu and his wife Chen Yun far surpasses today's idol dramas.

They fell in love at first sight in their youth and chose each other.

Later, through years of hardship, the couple held hands through it all, living a life of poetry and wine amid poverty.

Shen Fu never avoided life's hardships, but he was more willing to record the little moments between the two of them, those gentle and charming beautiful things.

The theme of Six Records of a Floating Life is mourning his deceased wife; amid the abundant descriptions of everyday details, undercurrents of joy and sorrow alternate, and the eternal contradiction of love and death runs throughout.

Shen Fu married a woman of the Chen family, named Yun, courtesy name Shuzhen, his uncle's daughter. For twenty-three years they respected each other as equals, in perfect harmony and deeply devoted, yet heaven envied her beauty, and they parted midway, unable to grow old together.

Their ordinary days were drinking together under the moonlight, eating after a slight tipsiness, brewing tea over a firewood stove, cooking porridge at dusk, and also admiring the moon at Canglang Pavilion, listening to the gurgling waves... They turned the plainness of cloth clothes and simple food into a sentiment of poetry, flowers, and moonlight. Who could not be enchanted by it?

Lin Yutang once wrote in The Importance of Living: "Yun, I think, is the most lovable woman in Chinese literature. She was not the most beautiful, because the author of this book, her husband, did not praise her as such, but who can deny that she was the most lovable woman?"

Just as Lin Yutang said, this book indeed gives one a light, unworldly feeling.

Such supreme beauty, such deep affection, and the details in the book will impress you even more; once you read it, you will never forget it your whole life!

The writing is fresh and gentle, without the slightest affectation. Savor it carefully,and your heart grows calm and your eyes are filled with beauty.

After reading it, you will understand:what it means to hold a tray level with one's eyebrows in mutual respect, and what it means to dwell poetically in this world。

Poetic Remarks in the Human World

The great beauty of the human world, Wang Guowei's remarks on ci

A person lives splendidly entirely according to their realm

Wang Guowei was one of the very greatest scholars of Chinese classics in modern China。

In his lifetime he wrote 62 works，and annotated and collated nearly 200 classics，covering many fields including opera, poetry, philosophy, aesthetics, history, epigraphy, archaeology, education, and translation.

With just 64 short notes, he pioneered a systematic aesthetics of Chinese ci poetry; it is“the golden key that opens the most beautiful remarks on ci in China"。All Chinese people should read it.

Lu Xun once also said: To discuss Chinese classical studies, Wang Guowei is the one who truly counts as a scholar of them. And his Poetic Remarks in the Human World is praised as one of "the foundational works in the history of Chinese aesthetics."

In his view, whether life is splendid depends entirely on a person's realm, sentiment, and breadth of mind, and he put forward the famous "theory of realms."

The first realm: "Last night the west wind withered the green trees. Alone I climb the high tower, gazing to the end of the road to the horizon."

Those who achieve great things must first have persistent pursuit, climb high and gaze far, survey the path, clarify their goals and direction, and understand the general shape of things.

The second realm: "My clothes grow ever looser and I never regret it; for her I am worn haggard."

To pursue one's career and ideals persistently, striving selflessly, sparing nothing to reach the far shore of success. As the saying goes, on the mountain of books the path is diligence, and on the boundless sea of learning the boat is hard work; the sharp edge of a treasured sword comes from grinding, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold.

The third realm: "I search for him a thousand times in the crowd, then suddenly turn back, and there he is, in the dimming light."

After many twists and turns and much tempering, a person gradually matures, can perceive the finest details, and suddenly understands. As the saying goes, you may search everywhere in vain for iron shoes, yet find it without any effort at all.

At first bewildered and exploring, then persistent in advancing once the goal is set, and finally attaining sudden enlightenment: writing ci, pursuing scholarship, and conducting oneself are all the same principle.These three lines set out the way to become a full person, and they invite deep reflection.

When you calm your mind and want to read a book, Poetic Remarks in the Human World is undoubtedly the best choice.

The book includes Wang Guowei's finalized and deleted drafts of Poetic Remarks in the Human World from his lifetime, Unpublished Drafts of Poetic Remarks in the Human World, and A Chronology of Wang Guowei, along with an appendix, the "first book for learning ci," Baixiang Ci Pu.

After seeing the content, do you feel quite touched? Then take a look at its details

Classic paintings by masters of fine brushwork from the Republic of China period

Ye Jiaying says: "Poetic Remarks in the Human World is precisely an important bridge that can guide modern readers toward ancient literature, combining Western concepts with traditional Chinese wisdom.

Fu Lei says：”In all of China's history, Poetic Remarks in the Human World is the best literary criticism; to develop spiritual sensibility, this book is like a golden key."

Wang Guowei's exquisite sensibility, the artistic conception and inner meaning of Chinese poetry, and the supreme beauty of the human world are all between the lines.

If you yearn for a realm of beauty,

want to live a poetic life,

savor the joys of life,

appreciate the beauty in the classics,

and love the most interesting people,

you should readSix Records of a Floating Life and Poetic Remarks in the Human World。