Tang Yin, Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhiming existed in history, while zhou wenbin was invented by later scholars.
The "Four Gentlemen of Wuzhong" in history refers to Tang, Zhu, Wen and Xu, and Xu is.
Xu Xu, a writer in Ming Dynasty, was also called "the first seven sons" with Li Mengyang and others. His poetic style is clear, but he doesn't know calligraphy and painting, and his personality is different from the other three.
Probably for this reason, later the literati invented a beautiful zhou wenbin to make up the numbers.
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Four talents:
1, Tang Yin
Tang Yin was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua and died on the second day of December in the second year of Jiajing. After the word "Bohu", it was changed to "",and the number six was like a layman, a Taohuaan mage, a Lu, a Zen deity and so on. He is from Wuxian, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty.
At the age of 28, Tang Yin took the first place in the Central South Zhili Province and went to Beijing the following year. He was demoted for being involved in the imperial examination case in the twelfth year of Hongzhi. The sudden change made Tang Yin lose his initiative. From then on, he wandered around the rivers and lakes and was buried in poetry and painting, eventually becoming a famous painter.
2. Zhu Zhishan
Zhu Yunming was born on December 6th, Tianshun, and died on December 27th, Jiajing. His name is Xizhe and he was born in Changzhou (now Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province).
Because of his strange appearance, he laughed at his ugliness, and because one of his right hands gave birth to a finger, he was named Shan Zhi, known as "Zhu Jingzhao" by the world, and was a famous calligrapher in Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yunming's official career in imperial examinations was rather bumpy. He 19 was a scholar, and he took five rural examinations, only in the fifth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1492), and then he took seven examinations.
Even his son Xu Zhu was a scholar in the previous subject, so Zhu Yunming gave up the idea of imperial examination and chose an official. Zheng Dejiu (15 14) was awarded the order of Xingning County, Guangdong Province, and in the first year of Jiajing (1522), he was transferred to Yingtian (now Nanjing) and returned to his hometown.
Zhu Yunming is good at poetry, especially calligraphy, and is famous all over the world. He and Tang Yin, and called "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong".
3. Wen Zhiming
(1470.11.28—1559.3.28), formerly known as Bi (or Bi Zuo), was an outstanding painter, calligrapher, Taoist priest and writer in the Ming Dynasty. Since I was forty-two, I have paid more attention to words.
Because there were Hengshan people in the past, it was named "Hengshan lay man" and "Wenhengshan" in the world. Han nationality, from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). Because the official went to the Hanlin to wait for the imperial edict, he personally worshipped Mr. Zhen, so he was called "Wen Hou Zhao" and "Zheng Wenxian".
Like Zhu He, Ning Wang hired him because he admired his virtue, but refused to go because of illness. In Zheng De's last years, due to the recommendation of 20-year-old Gong Sheng, he awarded Hanlin a letter to be written.
He didn't care about dignitaries, especially refused to paint for princes and middle-level officials, and soon resigned and returned to China. And "Fu Tian Ji".
4. Xu Zhenqing
Xu Zhenqing (1479-151year) was born in Wuxian (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), a native of Meili Town, Changshu, and later moved to Wuxian.
The writer of Ming Dynasty, known as "the poet of Wuzhong", is one of the four gifted scholars in Wuzhong (also known as the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan). It is famous for the quatrains of "every family in the left of the river, flowers and trees in Yangzhou on a foggy month".
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