Speaking of talents in the Ming Dynasty, two people are mentioned the most. One is Tang Bohu, an affectionate and versatile Jiangnan scholar in folklore, and the other is Jie Jin, a great scholar in Youchunfang.
Tang Bohu's talent spread to all ages, women and children because of a movie called "Tang Bohu Lights Autumn Fragrance". Tang Bohu's calligraphy and painting is a must. But because he lived in poverty for most of his life, he failed to integrate into the mainstream. At that time, his reputation was only prominent in Jiangnan area, and he was not selected as one of the "three gifted scholars" in the big ranking of the Ming Dynasty. In painting, he and Shen Zhou, and called "everyone in Si Wu", also known as "Ming Sijia". Poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, is called "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong".
Jie Jin was the most famous writer in the early Ming Dynasty. In the 21st year of Hongwu (1388), he was a scholar and served as an official in Hongwu, Wen Jian and Yongle dynasties. He used to be a cabinet official and a university student in Youchunfang, and participated in confidential affairs. His great contribution in the history of literature is his participation in the editing of Yongle Dadian. Jie Jin was a clever man since he was a child. His articles are elegant and wonderful, his poems are rich and elegant, his calligraphy is excellent in small letters, he is good at cursing, and he is especially good at wild grass. He is one of the three great talents in Ming Dynasty.
The so-called "Three Masters in Ming Dynasty" is the collective name of Yang Shen, Jie Jin and Xu Wei in Ming Dynasty. Yang Shen, a writer in Ming Dynasty, was the first of the three gifted scholars in Ming Dynasty. Jie Jin, the word big gentry, also known as gentry,No. Chunyu, was born in a scholarly family, and only ranked third. Xu Wei, ranked third, was born in Tianchi Mountain.
Among the "Three Great Talents of Ming Dynasty", besides the name Jie Jin, the third person from Xu Wenchang also knows a little. Xu Wei, a native of Yinshan, Shaoxing (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), was famous for his versatility since childhood and was unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting. His paintings can absorb the essence of predecessors and be completely transformed. They do not seek to look like gods. Mountains and rivers, people, flowers and birds, bamboo and stones have everything, and flowers are the best. Xu Wei's paintings have strong subjective feelings and bold brushwork, thus pushing China's freehand flower-and-bird paintings to the highest level of writing strong thoughts and feelings, and creating a precedent for China's freehand brushwork school. His painting style had a profound influence on Badashanren, Shi Tao, Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, modern Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi in Qing Dynasty.
In addition, Xu Wei is good at cursive writing and has written many poems, so he is known as "the next generation of talents"; Can play the piano and master the melody; Narration of Southern Opera is China's first monograph on the theory of Southern Opera. In addition, the zaju "Four Sounds of Apes", "Song of Dai Xiao" and selected books have also been handed down from generation to generation.
Yang Shen, ranked first, is not well known to modern readers. Yang Shen was born in Xindu, Sichuan (now Xindu District, Chengdu), and his ancestral home was Luling, the son of Yang Tinghe, a university student in Dongge, Ming Dynasty. Yang Shen, who was born in an official family, was a master of learning since he was a child. He stayed in Zhengde for six years. At the age of 23, Yang Shen took part in scientific research, won the first prize in palace examination, was awarded the title of scholar, and participated in the compilation of Records of Wu Zong. From then on, Yang Shen officially stepped onto the political stage of the Ming Dynasty.
Yang Shen studied hard and was diligent in writing all his life. He was a famous scholar in Ming Dynasty. He not only knows everything about classics, history, poetry, literature, lyrics, phonology, epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, but also has profound attainments in astronomy, geography, biology and medicine, with more than 65,438+000 kinds of writings. When Zhang wrote Ming History, he commented on him: "Yang Shen is better than literature because of his rich knowledge." Hu Weiyuan also said in Poems of Living in Cold Years: "Yong Yang was the first to build temples in the Ming Dynasty." Chen Yinque, a master of modern Chinese studies, also spoke highly of Yang Shen: "Yong Yang is a very learned man, and the next generation has a generation, which is rare."
Anyone who has watched the old TV series Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be familiar with the theme song:
The Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away heroes.
Whether it is right and wrong or failure, it is empty now and has disappeared with the passage of time.
Castle Peak still exists, the sun still rises and the sunset still sets.
The white-haired hermit by the river has long been used to the changes of time.
I met an old friend and had a drink.
How many things in the past and how many years have been put into the conversation.
This word is magnificent, full of pride and charm. Luo Guanzhong, the author of Ci, was Yang Shen, the first of the three gifted scholars in Ming Dynasty. In A.D. 1524, Yang Shen was exiled to Yunnan for offending Ming Shizong. When he passed Jiangling, Hubei, he saw a fisherman and a Chai Fu cooking fish and drinking by the river, talking and laughing. Yang Shen was deeply moved at once, so he wrote this famous song "Linjiang Fairy Rolling East of the Yangtze River". Now everyone can match the number, and Yang Shen turned out to be him.
It is puzzling that these great talents, who are famous for their later generations, have had a miserable life in the second half of their lives, and some even have no good end, and the result is very embarrassing. Lao Huang will introduce the life outcomes of these talents later.