1. The life of Tang Bohu Tang Bohu, (1470-1524), a native of the Ming Dynasty, was named "Yin" because he was born in the Yin year and the Yin month. Because Yin is a tiger, he also took the courtesy name Bohu. , later changed to Ziwei.
The master of Peach Blossom Temple, who became a Buddhist in his later years, had six other nicknames such as layman.
A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
Ranked first in the provincial examination (Jie Yuan).
Later, he was implicated in a fraud case in the examination room, and his career was frustrated. He also suffered from family difficulties and experienced ups and downs.
In the second half of his life, he built a "Peach Blossom Temple" in Taohuawu, northwest of Suzhou City, and became famous all over the world for selling literary works and paintings.
At that time, he studied literature and art with Xu Zhenqing, Zhu Yunming, and Wen Zhengming, and was named "the four talented scholars in Wuzhong".
Tang Yin was "uninhibited and fond of sensuality", and he signed himself as "the most talented man in the south of the Yangtze River." He was erudite and versatile, reciting poems and composing music, and being good at calligraphy and painting. He was an outstanding painter in the history of Chinese painting. , good at figures, landscapes, flowers and birds.
Tang Yin's calligraphy is hidden by the name of the painting. He mainly learned from Zhao Mengfu, and was more influenced by Li Beihai. His strokes are elegant and graceful, graceful and smooth, with slightly weak strokes and soft hooks, without a hint of madness.
Wang Shizhen commented: "When a Bohu enters the Wuxing Hall, he has weak ears." ("Zhoushanren Manuscript") The popular ink writings include "Self-written Poems", "Couplet Poems", and "Luohua Poems" "wait.
Tang Bohu was smart since he was a child, good at poetry and painting. He became a scholar at the age of sixteen and married Xu at the age of nineteen.
Mrs. Xu is quiet and delicate, gentle and considerate, and her husband and wife are loving.
His father, Tang Guangde, ran a Tangji Hotel. When Tang Bohu was in high spirits, his father suddenly suffered a stroke and passed away. His mother was too sad and left with his father. Later, he was shocked to hear that his sister had died at her husband's house, and his beloved wife When giving birth to a child, the postpartum fever was intense and she died quietly. The poor baby also died with its mother three days after birth.
Relatives died one after another, which was a huge blow and made him depressed.
Later, with the encouragement of his friends Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhengming, he picked up ancient Chinese prose and studied hard. As a result, he ranked first in the provincial examination, and "Jie Yuangong Tang Bohu" became famous all over Nanjing.
At the age of twenty-seven, they renewed their relationship and married Mr. He.
When Tang Yin went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, he was betrayed by his fellow countryman Du Yuanjing. He was falsely accused of bribing the examiner, dragged into the execution hall, beaten with sticks, and imprisoned.
After several twists and turns, he was proven innocent.
After he was released from prison, he fell into despair. His wife He left him, and his brother-in-law asked to separate the family. Fortunately, his good friend Jiuniang (a brothel girl) helped him spiritually.
Later, he married Jiuniang, a capable and considerate wife. Since then, he has devoted himself to painting and made great progress in painting.
Tang Yin began his "Thousand Miles Tour" at the age of 31, traveling to seven provinces: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Min, and Jiangxi. He made a living by selling paintings despite poverty.
Tang Yin was good at painting landscapes and fine-brush figures, especially ladies. His brushwork was graceful, meticulous, free and elegant. "Tang Painting" was adopted by later generations of painters.
His handed down works include "Riding a Donkey Returning and Thinking", "Autumn Wind Fan Fan", "Li Ruirui", "One Life's Marriage", "Mountain Road Songsong", etc.
Poetry and prose include "The Complete Works of Liu Ru Lay Master".
He and Jiuniang have a daughter.
Jiuniang died of overwork at the age of thirty-seven.
In the fourth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1509), Tang Yin built Taohuawu on the site of an abandoned garden in Zhangzhuang, a Song Dynasty in the north of Suzhou City. (Also known as Tangjiayuan, the site is on today's Taohuawu Street).
He calls himself the Master of Taohuawu. He once wrote "Song of Peach Blossom Temple" and compared himself to the flower-picking fairy.
He mainly lived in Taohuawu for the second half of his life, and the main artistic works in his life were also produced here.
Tang Yin lived a rough life, poor and miserable, and died at the age of fifty-four.
2. Anecdotes about Tang Bohu Tang Bohu, one of the "Four Talents of Wu Clan".
People only know that he was naughty in his youth, romantic in his youth, and cynical in his middle age.
So people in the world added details to some of his stories, and even compiled them into many legendary novels, such as: Tang Bohu's Three Points of Autumn Fragrance... and so on.
However, the story about the legendary Tang Bohu may not be completely true, but it can be revealed that this talented painter was wild and unrestrained in character, and did not follow the rules of etiquette.
At that time, Tang Bohu was already a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, many rich and powerful people want to rely on their power to ask Tang Bohu for a few paintings, but Tang Bohu is not afraid of power by nature, and likes to marry poor people.
Because of this, Tang Bohu would rather paint paintings and give them to the poor than pay attention to those high-ranking officials.
There used to be a book called "Nine Beautiful Pictures", which told the story of Tang Bohu marrying nine beauties. The plot was very bizarre. In fact, there was no such thing in history, but Tang Bohu painted Nine Beautiful Pictures. It's true.
The origin of the Nine Beautiful Pictures is that Zhu Zhishan once visited Tang Bohu and made a bet with Tang Bohu that as long as Tang Bohu could draw ten beautiful pictures of famous ladies in Suzhou City within one year, Zhu Zhishan will pay him three hundred taels of silver.
But Tang Bohu ignored it at that time: We are all ladies, we usually don’t go out the door or step forward, how can we get ten pictures of beauties? At this time, the book boy Tang Xing suggested to Tang Bohu that if he went to Xuanmiao Temple on the first and half of every lunar month, he would easily get ten pictures of beauties. However, Tang Bohu only completed nine pictures, and these nine pictures of beauties were saved. 3. Strange anecdotes about Zhu, Wen, Zhang and Tang Bohu Zhu Zhishan, whose courtesy name is Xizhe, is Tang Bohu's best friend. Although he is a civil servant, he has no intention of fame. He focuses on calligraphy, and is especially famous for cursive script.
The two have similar temperaments. They often carry wine bottles and ride on fishing boats, drinking and composing poems while admiring the mountains and rivers, which seems to be a retreat from the world.
Shortly after Tang Bohu was framed by Du Yuanjing in Kyoto, Zhu Zhishan also resigned from the county magistrate, and the two even traveled together, poetry, wine, and famous flowers.
It is said that the two of them once arrived in Yangzhou and found that they had run out of silver. They heard that the Yanzheng censor in Yangzhou liked elegance, so they transformed themselves into Taoist priests and came to the Yamen.
The censor asked them to write a poem with a stone as the title, so the two of them were very satisfied with their work, and rewarded them with a large amount of silver. The two of them played for several more days.
Zhu Zhishan’s famous cursive script, coupled with Tang Bohu’s exquisite painting skills, made “Tang Hua Zhu Zi” famous far and wide.
Wen Bi, whose courtesy name was Zhengming, was also a good friend of Tang Bohu.
But because he was strictly disciplined by his father Wen Lin when he was a child, he never dared to flirt with women, so when Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan hired two prostitutes to make fun of him without telling him, Zheng Ming wrote a letter to him about this. Letter to advise Tang Bohu.
Tang Bohu also refused to accept that he took the joke seriously, and their twenty-year friendship fell apart.
It was not until ten years later that Tang Bohu wrote a letter to Zheng Ming, frankly reviewing his mistakes. Zheng Ming rushed to Taohuawu immediately after reading the letter, and the two close friends resolved their grudges in tears.
As a result, the friendship between the two became deeper and they talked about everything until Tang Bohu passed away.
Zhang Ling, also known as Mengjin, was extremely smart since he was a child. He once won the first prize in the boy examination. However, due to the early death of his father, he gradually became wild and unruly and became addicted to alcohol.
Zhu Zhishan felt sorry for him and accepted him as his disciple. From then on, he often traveled around the world with Zhu Zhishan and Tang Bohu.
Once, after the three of them drank in the hotel, they realized that they had no money. So Tang Bohu found a piece of white paper and sketched it with a few strokes, and it became green mountains and green waters. Zhu Zhishan took the pen and wrote four lines of poetry. , which added a lot of color. Finally, Meng Jin added a little boy drawing water next to the green water, which immediately made the picture full of life.
This painting not only paid for the drinks, but also made them drink a few more drinks.
[Meng Jin is naturally fond of nature and does not care about official fame. He has always been Tang Bohu's best friend.
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