The poem "Picture of a Wagtail in a Broken Lotus" is explained as follows:
"The Picture of a Wagtail in a Broken Lotus" is a poem written by Tang Yin in the Ming Dynasty. This poem on painting vividly and profoundly reveals the cold reality of social corruption, weak people's hearts, and full of intrigues by describing the bad lotus, the back order, and the cold dew of the field. The whole poem uses the symbolic technique of seeing the big from the small, from objects to people, associating it with nature and having far-reaching implications.
Original text of the work:
The flying call, walking and shaking are in emergency, and the cold dew of Noda is about to form a ball. Mo Yan has brothers all over the world, but his flesh and blood are now looking at him with cold eyes.
About the author:
Tang Yin (1470-1524), also known as Bohu and Ziwei, also known as Liuru Jushi, Taohua Temple Master, Fleeing Zen Immortal Official, etc. A native of Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), he was one of the four talented scholars in Wuzhong and a famous painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty.
Tang Yin was born into a business family with one sister and one brother. His father, Tang Guangde, runs a Tangji Hotel. In the 21st year of Chenghua (1485), Tang Yin ranked first in the Suzhou Prefecture Examination and entered the Fu School; in the 11th year of Hongzhi (1498), Tang Yin ranked first in the Yingtianfu Township Examination (Jie Yuan) and entered Beijing to study. In the 12th year of Hongzhi (1499), he was involved in the Xu Jing Examination fraud case, was convicted and imprisoned, and was demoted to a minor official in Zhejiang.
From then on, Tang Yin lost his ambition in the academic field and wandered around the world, buried in poetry and painting, and eventually became a famous painter. Tang Yin lived in poverty in his later years and relied on friends for financial support. He died of illness in the second year of Jiajing (1524) at the age of fifty-four.
In the history of painting, Tang Yin, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying are collectively known as the "Four Ming Schools" or the "Four Wu Schools". In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". Tang Yin's landscape painting patriarchs, Li Tang and Liu Songnian, combined the northern and southern painting schools, with delicate brushwork, sparse layout, and elegant and elegant style.
The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful posture and accurate modeling; he also used freehand brushwork of figures with simple, comprehensive and interesting strokes. His flower and bird paintings are good at freehand ink painting, free and elegant. The calligraphy is unique and handsome, and is modeled after Zhao Mengfu. Tang Yin's works are world-famous for his landscape paintings and figure paintings, and the many erotic paintings he created also added to his personal reputation as a "romantic talent".