Tang Bohu's misleading poems

Tang Bohu in Ming Dynasty

Wen Zhiming and Tang Bohu, gifted scholars in the Ming Dynasty, were good friends in the same year. During Tang Bohu's illness, his good friend Wen Zhiming visited him. At that time, Tang Bohu gave him an inkstone he bought at the age of 23 as a souvenir. Therefore, in Wen Zhiming's later article, he wrote, "1June, 89819th, Jiajing supplemented the book for Beishan refining company. At the time of this biography, he was sixty-nine, and Ouyang Gong said it was "according to the case". This was Jiajing1June, 89819th of the Ming Dynasty. While enjoying the cool air, Wen Zhiming remembered the experience of Tang Bohu, the first gifted scholar in Jiangnan. He was born in the same year and was a classmate, and later died. Deeply moved, he took out the muddy inkstone presented to him by Tang Bohu, who had been treasured for many years, and engraved the above words on his side. On the back of the inkstone platform, there is an amazing poem written by Tang Bohu on his 23rd birthday according to the geographical environment of his hometown, "It's sunny in the morning, sweet in the mouth of the valley, and the second time in the morning." Coincidentally, this inkstone later fell into the hands of Chen Yinsheng, a scholar of Tongzhi in the late Qing Dynasty, who compiled these two quatrains into a poem. Later generations mistook this inkstone for his.

Reference: Tang Bohu, a gifted scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, is not Yin Mingtang described by Sina Bo.