Full-text Translation of Six Chapters of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

I went to the mountain to sweep the grave and picked up some beautiful pebbles with rock texture. I came back to discuss with Yun: "Stick Xuanzhou stones with putty and pile them in a stone basin to make bonsai, mainly to make the color uniform; Although this kind of Huangyan is simple, it looks yellow and white with putty, and the chiseled marks are exposed. What do you think? " The cloud said, "Choose stubborn stones and pound them into powder, then rub them on the traces of putty, and mix them while they are wet. When it is dry, it may be the same color as the stone. " According to her statement, I piled a small mountain peak in a rectangular mud basin from Yixing, which protruded to the left and right; The back adopts horizontal texture, like the style of rocks painted by Ni Zan, a painter in the Yuan Dynasty, which is rough and rough, like the shape of Linjiang Loki; Leave a corner in the basin and plant duckweed with river mud. Lion grass is planted on stones, commonly known as Yun Song. After several days of hard work, it was finally made. In late autumn, Yun Song is everywhere, like vines hanging on the stone wall; Bloom is red, and Bai Ping also surfaced, red and white, wandering among them, just like boarding Penglai Xiange.