However, before he died, he wrote a poem that vividly showed the generosity and fearlessness of a prodigal son:
If you have the end of your life, it doesn't matter if you die in hell.
The earth is similar to the sun, so you should only wander in a foreign land.
The so-called life was seen through by this dying man. Secular success has been unable to frame his eccentric and willful life trajectory. At the same time, when others despised him, laughed at him and called him a loser, he had no need to be angry and make excuses, just smiled like an elder.
In the half century after his death, an era of great liberation of human nature came in the late Ming Dynasty. Many intellectuals regard him as a pioneer and teacher, hold high his banner and carry forward his spirit.
It was revived by Li Zhi, Yuan Hongdao, Feng Menglong's novels, Stephen Chow films and Christie's Autumn Auction. Over the years, he "resurrected" again and again, and those who laughed at him and scolded him turned to dust.
A loser, "alive" has become the most successful appearance, and those who define his failure are simply a mess of failure.
History, making faces with everyone; Only he, Tang Bohu, responded with a smile.
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Five hundred years ago, Tang Bohu lived in Suzhou, the "most prosperous place in the world of mortals", and used brushes and poetry shops to show the prosperous scenery and fantastic life.
Throughout Suzhou, there is a fanatical atmosphere of "double 1 1" every day. People are very tall and spend money to buy happiness. The poor have fun, and the rich have fun. Use Tang Bohu's poem to describe:
Jiangnan people, like immortals, see flowers all year round.
The morning market started early in the morning, and the mountain boat reached the side of the mountain.
When you are poor, you sell wine every season. When you are rich, you don't care about money.
On the stone tablet in front of the official department, the word Suzhou refers to Mo Chuan. Touke Finance Review Network
Youth may be the happiest time in Tang Bohu's life.
He was born in the sixth year of Ming Chenghua, whose real name is Tang Yin. Bohu, this is his handwriting. Great-grandfather's generation, Tang family was doing business. By the time their property reached Tang Bohu's father, they had already lived a decent middle-class life.
Although his father Tang Guangde is still a businessman, he has no intention of letting his son follow the old path of his ancestors. He hired a teacher for his son, which opened up another possibility of his life.
Tang Bohu lived up to his father's expectations and soon stood out. He is brilliant, brilliant. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, he took the scholar exam, ranking first in high school. In his early years, he was famous in Suzhou cultural circle.
At this time, he made some of the most important friends in his life. Zhu Zhishan, a new generation leader in Suzhou literature, who is older than him 1 1, took the initiative to make friends with him. Tang Bohu is arrogant, and there is an invincible teenager in the universe. At first he ignored Zhu, and Zhu didn't mind. He wrote many letters to express his goodwill and finally became a close friend who influenced his life.
Wen Zhiming and Zhang Ling, the most dazzling new stars of that era, consciously embraced and walked together under the guidance of like-minded.
At the age of 9, he married Xu. The young couple got along well and soon gave birth to a son.
Tang Bohu in this period, like a new car with oil, had a smooth life. Imperial examination, affection, friendship, talent, a good card in hand, how to play will win.
Tang Bohu, who is in his twenties, has the status that Ma Yun, who is in his fifties, only has: he is talented and willful, with unlimited scenery, arrogant and unrestrained, and can play as he pleases. He succeeds everywhere, but he is never happy.
To celebrate his birthday, he sang and performed across national boundaries. Zeng and posing as beggars, singing lotus flowers in the rain, got a reward and went to buy wine to drink. He enjoyed it very much and said, unfortunately, even Li Bai could not feel this kind of happiness.
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Fate seems to have its conservation law: life is too smooth, isn't it going to heaven? Therefore, there is frustration and suffering.
Tang Bohu's bright colors are basically revealed around the age of 24. Since then, although he can draw the most beautiful scenery and beautiful women, the background color of his life is getting weaker and weaker.
About six years after Hongzhi, Tang Bohu suffered the first heavy blow in his life. Before he knew it, God took away his family. First, my father died of illness, then my mother, wife and son died one after another.
That is not the end of it. Tang Bohu, who shouldered the burden of family for the first time, had no money to pay her sister's dowry after her family's funeral. The next spring, full of guilt, he married his sister in a hurry. Unexpectedly, he soon heard the bad news that his sister committed suicide at her husband's house.
In a short time, a happy family of seven, only the Tang Bohu brothers.
Looking back on the days of wanton indulgence, it seems like a lifetime ago. At the age of 26, Tang Bohu was worried about his gray hair.
Fate can hardly crush a man who has gone through many vicissitudes. But it's too easy to beat the smooth sailing people.
Without the advice of big brother Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu might sink to the end. Tang Bohu as we know it will be different: it may be a loser or a country without people.
At this point, Tang Bohu's indulgence, there is a despair, and a rejection of death. Even Zhu Zhishan, a romantic shoulder, can't see her eyes. I want him to believe that your father's greatest wish before his death was to see you become famous.
Wake up the dreamer in one word. Tang Bohu, cheer up and study hard. He is going to live for his father again.
He said in the poem "Night Reading":
When you come to sleep at night, the single-bedroom residual lamp leaks longer.
I don't know when my belt will turn yellow
There is a triple jump after death. I want to make one before I die.
If the name is not right, the heart will not die, and then read the article.
Tang Bohu stayed up all night, studying hard for the exam. To us, he is a strange Tang Bohu. But he is also the real Tang Bohu.
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With talent against fate, Tang Bohu pulled back a game.
In the autumn of Hongzhi's eleventh year, he took part in Yingtianfu Township Examination, took three subjects, and became the famous "Tang Jieyuan".
When Tang Bohu came back, his fame quickly reached its peak. The examiner in charge of Tianfu township examination should be the prince, washing and storing horses. He admired his literary talent very much, and when he returned to Beijing, he was full of praise for everyone. A bunch of famous and unknown people lined up to make friends with him. Some people smell the same, and some people want to cling to his reputation.
At this time, he continued to marry a woman. This woman is also looking forward to it. He will win the first place exam in the near future and live a rich life.
The situation is smooth sailing, and the wildness of Tang Bohu is back.
On the way to Beijing, a rich boy named Xu Jing in Jiangyin became a huge fan of Tang Bohu. As the ship went north, the rich family tried their best to eat, drink and be merry, and they became inseparable friends.
After arriving in Beijing, Xu Jing not only arranged a meeting with Tang Bohu fans, but also walked around the mansion with a big gift. It is said that they visited the examiner, Cheng, the right assistant minister of Ritual Department, and Li Dongyang, a university student of Ritual Department.
After the exam, before the results were announced, a spokesman raised questions about the impeachment process and individuals.
In the end, because there was no strong evidence, it became a false accusation, but the fate of several people involved has been rewritten.
Cheng, an ambitious politician, suddenly ruined his political future and reputation and died in anger.
Xu Jing didn't get out of the shadow of cheating in the examination room for the rest of his life. He was depressed all his life and died at the age of 35.
Tang Bohu, who experienced great changes in her family, suffered a double blow from fate and had a strong sense of disillusionment with the impermanence of the world, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace. "I see myself in the mirror as a smile, and I am a half-life puppet." He laughs at himself too much in his poems to be understood.
Life is like waves on the sea, ups and downs. This fate directly closed the door to Tang Bohu's secular success.
It's hard to imagine how the arrogant Tang Bohu got up the courage to return to Suzhou.
His reputation was badly damaged, and those who praised him and powdered him began to trample on him and blacken him. They used to curry favor with Tang Bohu Bekaw.
The first person to leave him was his second wife, who took all his property.
In a letter to his best friend Wen Zhiming, he said that even his dog bit him and wouldn't let him in.
Life is proud, and the whole world follows you; Life is depressing, even dogs are against you. Fate is so naked and so realistic.
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Never cry in the middle of the night. It is not enough to talk about life.
This sentence looks like a bowl of chicken soup to others, but it is a glass of water in Tang Bohu.
It is said that Tang Bohu almost collapsed at the age of 30.
He has already "died" once, why not "die" again? After settling down his younger brother, he decided to travel to Wan Li. People return to mountains and rivers, and there will be no life, no death, no thoughts and no desires.
Of course, to put it bluntly, this is Tang Bohu's self-exile, fleeing from his hometown, fleeing from cold eyes and ridicule.
He first went to Zhenjiang by boat, boarded Jinshan Temple and watched Jinling under the hazy sky. He remembered the prosperous times of Tang Jieyuan, and he couldn't bear to look back.
He crossed the river to Yangzhou and visited Slender West Lake. Then go up the river, cross Wuhu, visit Lushan and visit Chibi ruins. Then, go south and visit Yueyang Tower, Dongting Lake and Hengshan Mountain. From there, I went east to Fujian, visited Wuyishan and Jiuli Lake, and came back from Zhejiang. Visit Yandang Mountain, Putuo Mountain and West Lake all the way, then return to Fuchun River and enter Anhui, and climb Huangshan Mountain and Jiuhua Mountain.
A year later, he returned to his hometown, saw many beautiful scenery and beautiful women, buried his memory and lost every short time on the map.
It seems that Tang Bohu has passed the lowest point in his life. We can briefly review the historical influence of cheating in the imperial examination here.
Suffering means different things to everyone. After the imperial examination, Tang Bohu completely returned to the outside of the system, and his life was liberated in 1960.
From then on, he cut off the road to fame in the imperial examination and freed himself from the expectations of his ancestors and the responsibilities of his family. He divorced, broke free from the fetters of personnel, and was "indifferent to his family" from then on; Because he can't take the lead and get on the stage, he automatically removes the traditional responsibility of "writing words" and can pursue his own artistic uniqueness.
As a bad record marked on him, the imperial examination case also eliminated his inner moral taboo.
Tang Bohu is Tang Bohu because he can turn a negative event into a new world with his extraordinary insight, whimsy and courage.
He achieved the greatest success when everyone called him a loser. Beneath the surface, he hides his careful design of life. And this kind of life demonstration significance is destined to be a good example for a hundred years, which can be carried forward in Li Zhi, Yuan Hongdao and others.
History readers always like to make selfish assumptions. In Tang Bohu, the most beloved gentleman will "happily" assume.
If it weren't for the imperial examination case of 1499, there would be one more official in the Tang family and one less Tang Bohu in the world.