Tang Yin, the songwriter of Peach Blossom Temple, lived in the Ming Dynasty.
Taohuawu Taohuaan, Taohuaan Taohuaxian. Peach Fairy cultivates peach trees and picks them to sell wine. When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep under the flowers. Half awake and half drunk day after day, flowers bloom year after year. I hope I die of old age. I don't want to bow my head in front of horses and chariots. Cars and horses are rich and interesting, and hops are poor.
If wealth is better than poverty, one is underground and the other is in heaven. If you compare poverty to horses and chariots, he will have to beat Huai Tan and I will have leisure. Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.
Translation annotation
There are Taohuawu Taohuaan and Taohuawu Taohuaxian. Peach Fairy planted many peach trees, and he picked them to exchange drinks. Sit quietly in the flowers when you wake up, and sleep under the flowers when you are drunk. Between waking up and getting drunk day after day, between blooming and dying year after year.
I just want to die of old age in the peach blossom wine room, and I don't want to bow before the horses and chariots of dignitaries. Flow is the interest of nobles, and wine glasses and flowers are the fate and hobbies of poor people like me. If you compare the wealth of others with my poverty, one is in the sky and the other is in the ground.
If I compare my poverty to the horses and chariots of the powerful, they work for the powerful, but I get the pleasure of leisure. I laugh that others are too coquettish, and I laugh that others can't see through the world. You haven't seen those rich families once brilliant, but now you can't see their graves, just for farmland.
Tang Yin, whose real name was Bohu, was later changed to Wei Zi, and the number was six, such as laity, master of Taohua Temple, Tang Sheng of Lu State, and the immortal who took off Zen. , is a native of Wuxian County, Suzhou, and Nanzhili. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty. Tang Yin's ancestor was Tang Hui, a former Lingjiang general in Jinchang County, Liangzhou, which also directly influenced Tang Yin. He also often uses "Jinchang Tang Yin" in his calligraphy and painting titles.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, his ancestor Tang Jian fought with Li Yuan and was named "Jugong", so Tang Yin also called himself "Lu Tang Sheng". In the Ming Dynasty, his ancestor Tang Tai was the commander of the Ministry of War and died in the Civil Fort. Tang Tai's descendants are mostly scattered in Baixia and Qiaolijian, Wuxian County, Suzhou.
Tang Yin was born in this area, and his father, Tang Guangde, runs a pub. Tang Yin lived up to his father's expectations when he wanted him to study and become famous. At the age of sixteen, he won the first place in Suzhou government, and at the age of twenty-eight, he won the first place in Zhongnan Zhili Province, and went to Beijing the following year.
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), he was involved in the imperial examination case and was jailed. From then on, Tang Yin lost his initiative, wandered around the rivers and lakes, was buried in poetry and painting, and finally became a famous painter. Tang Yin lived in poverty in his later years, and sometimes even lived on the help of friends. He died at the age of 54.