To be a household name, Tang Bohu is definitely one of them; Some people say that he is brilliant, while others say that he is addicted to women and is labeled as a "romantic genius".
Yin Shousheng stole history in Ming Dynasty? Biography of Tang Yin, Miscellaneous Notes on Banana Window by Xiang, Laughing Marriage of Tang Jieyuan by Feng Menglong, Love History by Zhan Waishi, etc. , all play up Tang Bohu's affair and describe him as a dissolute and talented person. Is the real Tang Bohu really that free and easy?
Tang Yin, whose real name is Bohu, is Liu Rulei, also known as the owner of the Peach Blossom Temple. He is a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and he is also known as the four great talents in Wuzhong with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing.
He was born in a merchant family (at that time, the merchant's social status was low, and even if he had money, he was looked down upon, unlike now. ), smart and studious since childhood, hoping to seek fame in the future (without fame, you can't improve your social status); He has a gift for art. When I was a teenager, I worshipped Zhou Chen as a teacher and studied painting. Later, I learned from my literary friends and improved constantly.
Sixteen years old, a scholar, life is impermanent. At the age of 27, my father and mother died one after another, and so did my wife and children. The house leaked rain, and it rained all night. In the second year, my sister got married and committed suicide soon. His relatives passed away one after another, which made him sad and depressed (which may be unbearable for ordinary people). Persuaded by his friends, he began to study hard again, hoping to become the first and revive his family business.
(Selling paintings for survival)
At the age of twenty-nine, I was admitted to Nanjing, ranking in the top three. The next year, I went to Beijing to take the exam, only to find that disaster fell from the sky. I was imprisoned and tortured because the examination room leaked the examination questions. After he was released from prison, he had a strong rebellious attitude and was arrogant and unruly.
He said in "Song of the Wine Moon":
Although I am ashamed that I don't have Li Bai's talent, I don't feel ugly.
I don't go aboard, and I don't sleep.
There is a small house outside Gusu, with thousands of trees and peaches all over the sky.
This poem has both conceit of its own talent and helplessness and anger at reality. Therefore, Tang Bohu's bohemian and informal style is more of a silent protest against his own fate.
Second, selling paintings for a living.
Tang Bohu's career was hopeless, so he had to make a living by painting and calligraphy, and put all his energy into painting and calligraphy, paralyzing resentment. His landscape paintings are beautiful and handsome, his figure paintings are elegant and elegant, his flower-and-bird paintings are lively, beautiful and elegant, and his calligraphy is superb.
In fact, Tang Bohu wants to build a great career. He said in the poem "Chivalrous Man": "Chivalrous man has the same name, so please feature the northwest. Those who are used to fighting with bows and horses are rewarded with light life. Meng Gong was so surprised that China started to run amok. Li will leave Pingcheng overnight. "
However, when he went to Beijing to take the exam and was jailed, he was deprived of his fame and career. In a letter to Wen Zhiming, he said, "I am deeply immersed in it. I am like a tiger. I looked up and grabbed the land, I cried, and then Kunshan was burned and destroyed; When it is difficult, all evils return. " "At sea, I regard Yin as a frivolous person, making a bold fist and going to the enemy. Know and don't know, Bi Wei vomit, it's a shame! "
Knowing that the officialdom was sinister and his career was difficult, he began to live a life of "forbearing good and evil".
(The Story of Wang Yangming and Tang Bohu)
In order to make a living by selling paintings, he said in Yan Zhi: "No alchemy, no meditation, no ploughing for merchants. Free writing is sold in Qingshan, and there is no money in the world. "
After several years of accumulation, he built an elegant home in Suzhou North Taohuawu, married Shen Shi and lived a leisurely life.
Half awake and half drunk day after day, flowers bloom year after year. I hope I'm old and dead, and I won't bow to the car. "
He is aloof and aloof, free from vulgarity. "I dare not speak out of turn in my life, so I will ask thousands of families to open it." "I will go back to Blue Mountain with my piano and have a good trip."
Although on the surface, he "laughed and danced wildly for fifty years, sleeping among flowers", but he was unwilling, and he always resented that he had nowhere to display his talents, sending out the feeling that "he was full of knowledge and hard to scold ghosts, but he was helpless to worry about the sky".
The life of folk artists is unstable and insecure. In his later years, he was extremely poor, "down and out, feeling sorry for himself" and "there is no room for a smile, and Wan Li was born in the pen of Jiangshan".
After the age of 60, life is more difficult, but peace of mind, less passionate resentment, less scholar's spirit, less teenager's conceit, less teenager's self-release and less middle-aged pride have all been exhausted. In the humiliation of "the immortal is unknown, and then choose the lamp to read the text", I have finished my bleak and bumpy life!
(Tang Bohu's painting)
Third, it is rumored.
Tang Bohu is romanticized among people for the following reasons:
First, the common people's misunderstanding of "romance". Regard the true romance of literati as the playful romance of laity.
Literati's romantic style refers to his unique style and outstanding talent, that is, "decline": I deeply know Song Yu's sadness and romantic elegance, and he is also my teacher, "a romantic figure who wanders around river of no return" and "a celebrity who really has romantic feelings".
Secondly, it has something to do with Tang Bohu's second wife. His third wife, Shen nine niang, is a prostitute, which is misleading. So he deduced nine wives for him according to the name "Shen nine niang".
Third, Tang Bohu is good at painting beautiful women, which is widely spread. Wang Shimao said in the Postscript of Chen Yushu's Tired Embroidery: "Tang Bohu shared everything in painting, especially Yu Meiren." For example, his paintings "Shu Meng Palace Prostitute", "Peony Lady Picture" and "Banji Fan" are really "there must be sentimental feelings before you can draw a lady picture."
It is said that Tang Bohu also painted many erotic paintings, such as twenty-four paintings of a romantic scene, which inevitably makes people associate him with romantic life.
Fourthly, some contemporary literati had an affair, and because others were not as famous as Tang Bohu, they were all blamed on him. For example, the legend of selling oneself as a slave to order Chou-heung actually comes from the story of Wu Menchen and Wuxi Yu Jian 'an. Both of them are beautiful women in Lu Yu You Yue. They fell in love at first sight and committed themselves to take refuge. Because of the master's appreciation, they can "light autumn fragrance" in the maid.
Fifth, he also carved a leisure chapter of "the first talented man in the south of the Yangtze River", which was posted a lot of incense by a busybody.
Life in Tang Bohu is painful and difficult. Although he only shook Jiangnan, he missed fame and was down and out. However, he was lucky, and later generations gave him many stories to remember this talented person.