Tang Yin is a gifted scholar in Wuzhong, as well as Wen Zhiming and Zhu Zhishan. Tang Bohu is especially good at writing and painting. Although he is handsome, he is sometimes informal.
The wife of China, a bachelor of Wuxi aristocratic family, came to Wuzhong to burn incense with a maid and servant, and happened to meet Tang Bohu who came to visit Tiger Hill at the invitation of Wen Zhiming and Zhu Zhishan. At this time, Tang Bohu saw a beautiful handmaid in the crowd in Washington, and she was hooked up. She followed her to a temple unconsciously.
Liu Wuquan walked into the hall and upon the Buddha statue. Tang Bohu also knelt beside Meidochan. Meidochan accidentally left his handkerchief on the ground and was picked up by Tang Bohu. When people from Washington came to Tiger Hill, Tang Bohu met the little maid by a rock and returned her handkerchief. The handmaid looked at the scholar with the handkerchief and smiled.
Wen and Zhu didn't see it on the road, so they had to go back by themselves. When Washington and his party returned to the boat after swimming in Tiger Mountain, Tang Bohu also rented a boat to accompany them. The handmaid's name is Qiu Xiang, and she is Mrs. Hua's favorite handmaid.
When the boat came out to pour water on the way, Chou-heung just fell on Tang Bohu. Chou-heung saw Tang Bohu. He was not in a hurry, but smiled there and smiled for it. When the ship arrived in Wuxi, people from Washington all landed, and Tang Bohu quickly recovered. In front of Washington, Chou-heung saw Tang Bohu still chasing him foolishly, so she walked in with a smile. At this point, Tang Bohu won the beauty of her heart, San Xiao.
In order to go further, Tang Bohu put on casual clothes and applied for a teaching position in Washington, DC, named Hua 'an, and taught Wenhua and Hua Wu, two sons of Bachelor of Chinese Studies, to read and write. One day, Chou-heung sent tea to the Fahrenheit brothers. She saw a portrait entitled "A pair of idiots" on Hua 'an's desk and secretly showed it to her wife. Although the lady was furious, she really seldom saw the exquisite brushwork, and it was only after the second daughter-in-law was rescued by Tang Bohu's cousin that she offered to draw a statue of Guanyin as a model for her, that the lady turned her anger into joy.
At this time, Tang Bohu took the opportunity to ask Chou-heung to help me polish the ink, so as to further contact Chou-heung. Since then, Tang Bohu has met Lai Xiang for many times, but Chou-heung promised but didn't keep the appointment. Wen and Zhu came to Wuxi to visit after a long separation. Zhu Zhishan lied that Hua 'an was a runaway servant and wanted to take him home. Don't want to go back, and Hua doesn't want him to go.
Just when Wen and Zhu had no choice but to walk out of Washington, they chased them out and confessed everything, so the three men devised a plan to force the China bachelor to promise to choose one of all his handmaids as his wife. Mrs. Hua agreed, and all the maids in Washington got together to choose.
However, Tang Bohu looked at almost all the maids, but remained silent. He just whispered, I want to see all the maids because I am kind. The lady asked the second daughter-in-law puzzled. Second grandma said Chou-heung was the only one who didn't come out. After the lady told her, Chou-heung appeared, and Tang Bohu was very satisfied.
The next day, when the bachelor learned that Chou-heung had fled that night, he sent someone to Zhujiajian to inquire, but he heard that Hua 'an was at home. When Hua learned the truth, he rushed to the Tang family and saw that it was Hua 'an, so he invited Chou-heung. When the truth came out, Hua laughed. From then on, two families in Tang Hua thought they were in-laws and interacted with each other.
But I don't know where I saw an article saying it was false, which was compiled by others to set off Tang, saying that Tang's life had always been poor, with beggars and wine.
Tang Yin's ancestral home is Jinchang, which is now Jincheng, Shanxi, so in his calligraphy and painting, he often writes the word "Jinchang Tang Yin". Shanxi people are good at doing business. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Tang family moved south and began to do business in Nanjing and Suzhou. Tang Yin was born in a businessman's family in Wuchili, Wuxian County, Suzhou. Tang Bohu was gifted at an early age. He is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics and has read a lot of history books. At the age of 65, 438+06, the champion, caused a sensation in Suzhou City. At the age of 29, he went to Nanjing to take the provincial examination and won the first place in Xieyuan. Just when he was full of ambition, he went to Beijing for the exam the next year, but he was unlucky because he was involved in the fraud case in the examination room.
It is generally said that Xu Jing, the son of Jiangyin's richest man, secretly bribed the examiner's furniture and got the test questions in advance. After the revelations, Tang Yin was also implicated in prison. Cheng and Li Dongyang are examiners for the 2008 Beijing College Entrance Examination. Both of them are well-read, and the questions are so obscure that many candidates can't answer them. There are only two papers, which are not only properly answered, but also elegantly worded, which makes Cheng blurt out with joy: "These two papers belong to Tang Yin." This sentence was heard by the people present and dispersed. Tang Yin visited him many times after he went to Beijing, especially after Cheng was appointed as the main examiner. Tang Yin also asked him to preface one of his poems. This aroused the suspicion of others. This time, when I heard Cheng say this in the examination room, I was caught by people who usually hate him. A group of people began to talk about the emperor, saying that Cheng had taken bribes and let the cat out of the bag. If it is not strictly investigated, it will lose the hearts of scholars all over the world. Emperor Xiaozong believed it and was very angry. He immediately decided not to allow Cheng to read the newspaper. All the papers read by Cheng were re-read by Li Dongyang, and Cheng, Tang Yin, were put into Dali Temple prison and tried by special personnel. After Xu Jing went to prison, he couldn't stand the torture. He admitted that he bribed Cheng's relatives with a piece of gold, stole the examination questions and leaked them to Tang Yin. After a joint examination by the Ministry of Punishment and the government, Xu Jing overturned his confession, saying it was a confession. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered "rehabilitation", and Cheng died of dissatisfaction after he was released from prison. After Tang Yin was released from prison, he was banished to Zhejiang as a petty official. Tang Yin was ashamed not to take office.
There are many records and different accounts about this case. In fact, this is the result of the internal struggle of the ruling class. "Biography of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty" said: "Or the prison of sensitive politics, Fu Han wants to seize its position, so that it can be played and the secret can't be clear." But there is no doubt that this matter is extremely serious for Tang Yin. From then on, Tang Yin decided to pursue a career. After returning home, he was addicted to wine, traveled to famous mountains and rivers, and determined to be a companion of poetry, painting and calligraphy all his life.
In the 13th year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (1500), Tang Yin left Suzhou and arrived in Zhenjiang by boat. From Zhenjiang to Yangzhou, he visited places of interest such as Slender West Lake and Pingshan Hall. Then take a boat along the river and cross Wuhu and Jiujiang to Lushan Mountain. The magnificent scenery of Lushan Mountain left a deep impression on Tang Yin. This was fully reflected in his later paintings. He returned to Huangzhou by boat and saw the remains of Battle of Red Cliffs. Tang Yin's Red Cliff Map was drawn on this basis. Later, he went south to Hunan, boarded Yueyang Tower and visited Dongting Lake. And climb Mount Hengshan in Nanyue south. Re-entering Fujian, roaming the famous mountains of Wuyi and Jiulihu in Xianyou County. Tang Yin transferred from Fujian to Zhejiang, visited Yandang Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, crossed the sea to Putuo, and then returned to Anhui, Huangshan and Jiuhua Mountain along Fuchun River and Xin 'anjiang River. At this point, Tang Yin had spent all his money and had to return to Suzhou. Tang Yin's trip to Wan Li Road lasted more than nine months, and he traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, adding a lot of materials for his later paintings.
Back in Suzhou, my family was poor, and my wife made a scene and finally left him. He lives in a small building facing the street at the corner of Qufang Wu. He entertains with painters and sells paintings for a living. He wrote in a poem: "No alchemy, no meditation, no ploughing for merchants." If you have time, write a picture of Danqing and sell it. There is no money on the earth. "In order to show my ambition of fame and fortune, I specialize in reading and selling paintings for free.
When Tang Yin was thirty-six, he chose Taohuawu in the north of the city, built an elegant and leisurely home, and lived a crazy life. Taohuawu was originally a bamboo slip villa in Zhangzhuang, Song Dynasty, which has gone through many vicissitudes and is now in ruins. But the scenery here is pleasant and the environment is quiet. A clear stream flows, and several wild peach willows die by the stream, which is quite interesting in Shan Ye. The following year, Tang Yin built the Taohuawu Villa with the money from selling paintings. Although there are only a few huts, elegant plaques are hung under the eaves, such as Xuepu Hall, Mengmo Pavilion and Butterfly Zhai. Tang Yin loved peach blossoms all his life. The villa was named "Peach Blossom Temple", and he named himself "Lord of Peach Blossom Temple", and wrote "Song of Peach Blossom Temple": "Peach Blossom Fairy nurtures peach trees and breaks branches for drinking. When you wake up, you just sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you will sleep. Flowers bloom day after day, and people wake up drunk year after year ... "In the spring, the garden is full of flowers, and he invited Shen Zhou, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and others to drink and compose poems, paint with a brush, and break up happily. . "Drink like day, drink when you come, don't ask, sleep when you are drunk." (Zhu Yunming's Epitaph of Tang Ziwei) At this time, Tang Yin was at leisure and detached.
In the ninth year of Ming Dynasty (15 14), he was recruited to Nanchang by Wang Ning, the imperial clan of Ming Dynasty. Later, he found himself caught in a political conspiracy in Wang Ning, so he pretended to be crazy, escaped and returned to his hometown. Later, Wang Ning rebelled against the imperial court and was pacified. Fortunately, Tang Yin escaped death, but he also caused a lot of trouble. Since then, my thoughts have gradually become depressed and I have turned to Buddhism. Since then, he has been named "Liu Rusi", and the seal of the autonomous party is "Escape from Zen Immortal".
After returning from Nanchang, I was sick all the year round and couldn't paint often. Besides, I can't keep a house, so my life is very difficult. I even often borrow money from my friends Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhiming. In the meantime, the famous calligrapher Wang Chong often came to help and married Tang Yin's only daughter as his wife, which became the happiest thing for Tang Yin in his later years.
In the second year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1523), at the age of 54, he was even more healthy and clean. This autumn, at the invitation of his friends, he went to the Wangs' home in Dongshan. However, there are two sentences in Su Dongpo's original work: "A hundred years is strong and a half, and there is not much suffering in the future", which just touched Tang Yin's mood. He was sad for a while, said goodbye to his home, became terminally ill and soon ended his miserable life. After his death, he was buried in Taohuawu North. Jiajing moved to Hengtang Town, Wang Jiacun in 26 years. After his death, his relatives and friends Wang Chong, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and others raised funds for the funeral. Zhu Yunming wrote an epitaph of more than a thousand words, which was written by Wang Chong and engraved on a stone tablet. Most of Tang Yin's life stories in later generations were obtained from this epitaph.