Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing are the four gifted scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.
Four gifted scholars in Wuzhong, that is, four gifted scholars in Jiangnan. It refers to four talented and free-spirited cultural people who lived in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in the Ming Dynasty. Generally speaking, it refers to Tang Yin (Tang Bohu), Zhu Yunming (Zhu Zhishan), Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing.
Tang Yin (147 ~ 1523), with the word "Bohu" and the word "Ziwei", was nicknamed "Jushi, Lord of Peach Blossom Temple, Tang Sheng of Lu State, Immortal Scholar who escaped from Zen" and was from Suzhou. Famous painter and writer in Ming Dynasty. Painting is as famous as Shen Shitian, Wen Zhiming and Chou Ying, and is known as "Ming Sijia" in history, ranking first among the four gifted scholars in the south of the Yangtze River.
Zhu Yunming (146-1527), whose name is Xizhe, was named Zhishan, because he had six fingers in his right hand, so he named himself "Zhi refers to life", and he also pointed to the old firewood in Zhishan and the mountain people. Han nationality, from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). His family's academic origins, his ability in poetry and calligraphy, and especially his wild grass are highly praised by the world, and there is a saying that "Tang Bohu's paintings are Zhu Zhishan's words". Zhu Zhishan's "Six-style Poems and Fu Volumes", "Cursive Poems of Du Fu", "Nineteen Ancient Poems", "Cursive Poems of Tang Dynasty" and "Cursive Poems and Han Juan" are all excellent works handed down from ancient times. Because of their close relationship with Tang Yin, there are many interesting stories about them among the people.
Wen Zhiming (147 ~ 1559), whose first name was Wall, was named Ming, and later Zhong, whose name was Stop Cloud, alias Hengshan Jushi, was called Wenhengshan. Changzhou (now Suzhou) people. One of the founders of wu school. Together with Shen Zhou, Tang Bohu and Chou Ying, it is called "Ming Sijia". At the age of 54, at the age of 54, Gong Sheng tried to be an official, and he was awarded the Imperial Academy to wait for a letter, so he called it a letter to wait for.
Xu Zhenqing (1479-1511) was known as Changgu and Changguo. A native of Meili Town, Changshu, he moved to Wuxian (now Suzhou). Ming dynasty writers. It is well-known for its quatrains of "every family in Jiangzuo, trees and flowers in Yangzhou on a misty moon". Xu Zhenqing is intelligent by nature, but less liberal arts. At the age of 16, he wrote Xin Qian Ji, which is famous in Wuzhong. Xu Zhenqing believed in Taoism in his later period and studied health preservation. Ming Zhengde died in the capital in the sixth year (1511) at the age of 33, and his tomb is located at the northern end of Yujiabang at Wandian Bridge in the west of Huqiu Mountain. Xu Zhenqing's other works include Di Gong Ji, Yi Sheng Ye Wen, Yi Lin and so on.