Ming and Tang Yin's "Tong Yin Meng Qing Tu"

The axis of "Tang Yin Meng Qing Tu", written by Ming and Tang Yin, is painted in paper and ink, with a length of 62 cm and a width of 30.9 cm. It is in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.

There are seven self-titled poems in this running script: "Ten miles of tung grow purple moss, and the husband tries to get drunk and sleep; In this life, I have thanked the fame and fortune, and I shouldn't dream of that old tree again. Tang Yin painted it. "Zhu's seal, Tang Yin's private seal, Tang Ada's seal of Zhu.

"Tong Yin Meng Qing Tu" takes figure painting as the theme, showing the painter's life experience and feelings. In this painting, a Chinese parasol tree is painted in ink, and a person sits on the top chair with his back on the stone slope in the shade of tung tree, which is vivid and natural. The composition is concise, the brush is used to practice, the style is free and easy, and the charm is pure, which is the representative work of Tang Yin's figure painting. Poetry, books and paintings complement each other. Although there is no date, it can be seen from the content of the poem that this painting was made after he returned to Suzhou after being hit by the imperial examination case. It is a portrayal of the painter who sees through the dust, no longer pursues fame and profit, and lives in seclusion in the mountains.

Tang Yin (1470- 1523) was born in wuxian county (now Suzhou, Jiangsu province), with the word Bohu, the word No.6 layman, and the owner of Taohua Temple. Famous painter, calligrapher and poet in Ming Dynasty. Tang Yin has a generous disposition and a free and easy life. Many legends and stories about him are widely circulated and known to women and children. His poems, songs, books and paintings are quite successful, especially painting topics, with a wide range of themes, including landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo and stones, etc. Learn from Zhou Chen, take care of you, and draw nutrition from famous paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasties. He made new progress in inheriting the traditional painting methods of Li Tang and Liu Songnian in the Southern Song Dynasty, and formed his own rigorous and elegant painting style, with outstanding achievements and far-reaching influence. He has a high position in the history of books and is an important representative of literati painting in the middle of Ming Dynasty.

In painting, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming and Chou Ying are also called "Wumen Fourth Hospital", also known as "Ming Sijia". Poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing, is called "four gifted scholars in Wuzhong".