Zhu Zhishan's representative works are Poem Volume of Taihu Lake, Poem Quotation, Poem on Red Wall, etc. He is generous, cheerful, and unrestrained, which is manifested in "Wild Grass". Although he occasionally loses his pen, he writes in a relaxed and lively way, which is worth studying by future generations. Zhu Zhishan (146-1526) was a calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, whose name was Yunming, and his word was Xizhe. He was born in Changzhou (Suzhou), Jiangsu Province, because he had an extra finger on his right hand.
Zhu Zhishan was born in a Kuiru family of seven generations of officials. He was gifted and studious since childhood. At the age of five, he was able to write Chinese characters one foot square, and at the age of nine, he was called a "child prodigy". At the age of 1, he has read widely, with magnificent articles and extraordinary intelligence. At the age of 17, he was a scholar, and at the age of 32, he was a juror. However, it was not until the age of 55 that he got an official position and was awarded to the magistrate of Xingning County, Guangdong Province. At the age of 63, he was sentenced to Jingzhao Yingtianfu. Dissatisfied with the corruption in officialdom, one year later, he resigned as an excuse and went back to his hometown to spend his remaining years.
Zhu Zhishan is one of the "three great calligraphers in the middle Ming Dynasty" (the other two are Wen Zhiming and Wang Chong) in Wumen Calligraphy School. Its calligraphy absorbed the calligraphy gods of Yu Shinan in Tang Dynasty and Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty, and promoted the cursive scripts of Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Tang Huaisu in Jin Dynasty. It was integrated and developed into its own unique wild grass, known as "the first in Ming Dynasty", and it was said that "the painting of Tang Bohu is the word of Zhu Zhishan". 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. Although Zhu Yunming has no famous paintings, he can also paint, but he seldom writes, and even fewer works have been handed down from generation to generation. In Zhu Yunming, there are still books handed down from generation to generation, such as Jiang Hai's Warring Channels, News, Nine Rulers' Notes, Before Zhi Shan, Floating Objects, Records of Old Monsters, Su Cai's Xiaobian, Huaixingtang Collection, and the Xingning County Records.
Zhu Zhishan is funny and free-spirited, and he is talented, and he likes to travel around the world without any details. He is often resourceful, eloquent and helpful, and he appears in many traditional Chinese opera works such as San Xiao, The King Tiger Snatches His Parents.
In the second year of Jiajing (1523), Zhu Zhishan returned to Li due to illness. In the fifth year of Jiajing (1526), he died at the age of 67. After his death, Zhu Yunming was buried in Zhu's ancestral grave in Hengshan, a suburb of Suzhou, but the grave has been leveled.
Postscript:
Zhu Zhishan is ten years older than Tang Yin, but they are very close. In those days, Tang Yin, who was full of ambition to take the exam in Beijing, was falsely imprisoned, and even his wife abandoned him. Then he became disheartened and drank all day to drown his sorrows. It was Zhu Yunming's timely persuasion that prompted Tang Yin to study hard again and finally achieved something. However, in fact, Zhu Yunming's own life is also tragic. At the age of 32, he was in high spirits and thought it was a piece of cake to enroll Gao Di. Unexpectedly, after that, he failed to try to do it seven times. The frustration and blow of his official career turned his thoughts from the Confucian concept of actively entering the WTO to the philosophy of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, who was born passively. In his later years, Tang Yin became a Buddhist. Zhu Yunming, on the other hand, was a Taoist, and turned to Taoism. This is the regret of the literati in feudal society.
Zhu Zhishan's representative works are Poem Volume of Taihu Lake, Poem Quotation, Poem on Red Wall, etc. He is generous, cheerful, and unrestrained, which is manifested in "Wild Grass". Although he occasionally loses his pen, he writes in a relaxed and lively way, which is worth studying by future generations.
Zhu, Wen, Zhang and Tang Bohu's anecdotes
Zhu Zhishan, whose name is Xizhe, is Tang Bohu's best friend. Although he is a juror, he has no intention of fame, and his mind is entirely on calligraphy, especially cursive script. They are similar in temperament. They often carry hip flask and take a fishing boat, drinking and composing poems, while enjoying the landscape, which is quite a sign of avoiding the world and abandoning the customs. Shortly after Tang Bohu was framed by Duyuan Jing in Kyoto, Zhu Zhishan also resigned from the magistrate of a county, and the two of them even traveled together, putting love poems and wine, and sending flowers. It was once said that they once arrived in Yangzhou and found that they had run out of silver. I heard that Yangzhou's salt policy and suggestion were fond of elegance, so they turned into almsgiving monks and came to the yamen. The suggestion asked them to write poems with stones as the topic, so the suggestion was extremely satisfied with their works, and they were rewarded with money, so they played for several more days. Zhu Zhishan's famous cursive script, coupled with Tang Bohu's exquisite painting skills, has made "Tang Hua Zhu Zi" famous far and near.
Wen Bi, whose name is Zheng Ming, is also a good friend of Tang Bohu. However, because he was strictly disciplined by his father Wen Lin when he was a child, he never dared to make love. So when Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan invited two young prostitutes to make fun of him without telling him, they wrote a long letter to persuade Tang Bohu.
Tang Bohu refused to accept that he took the joke seriously, and their friendship of 2 years fell out. It was not until ten years later that Tang Bohu wrote to Zheng Ming, frankly reviewing his mistakes, and after Zheng Ming finished reading, he rushed to Taohuawu. Only then did the two best friends melt their bad feelings in tears. Therefore, their friendship grew deeper and they talked about everything until Tang Bohu passed away.
Zhang Ling, whose word is Meng Jin, was brilliant since childhood and won the top prize in the boy's test. However, due to his father's early death, he gradually became unruly and addicted to alcohol. It's a pity that Zhu Zhishan saw him and accepted him as a disciple. Since then, he has often traveled around the world with Zhu Zhishan and Tang Bohu. On one occasion, three people found that they didn't have any money after drinking in the hotel, so Tang Bohu found a blank piece of paper, drew a few strokes, and it became green mountains and green waters. Zhu Zhishan took the pen and wrote four poems, which added a lot of color. Finally, Meng Jin added a child to draw water beside the green water, which made the picture full of life. This painting not only paid for the drinks, but also made them drink more. [Dream Jin is naturally fond of nature, does not draw on official names, and has always been Tang Bohu's best friend.
Tang Bohu's story Since Feng Menglong's novel "Tang Jieyuan Laughs at Marriage" came out, due to the noise of folk artists and operas, Tang Bohu's story of lighting autumn fragrance has been widely circulated among the people, and Tang Bohu has become a household name in China. In folklore, Tang Bohu became a rich man with numerous wives and concubines. In fact, this is a great distortion of Tang Bohu's true colors. In the history of Tang Bohu, there was no legendary affair, and life was poor and bumpy.