When it comes to Tang Bohu, many people are not strangers, "'Merry talented people'" and ''debauchery'" will also immediately jump out of their minds to correspond to it. But in fact, this is a great misunderstanding of him, the wind and the uninhibited, are his bitter helpless moves.
The beginning of a teenage genius
Tang Bohu has always been known for his calligraphy and painting in history, but his original dream was not to send love to calligraphy and painting, but to read the books of the sages and serve the country like the traditional Chinese literati. He also participated in the imperial examination, and even his initial road to the imperial examination was extremely smooth, and after getting the first place in the provincial examination, he also got the first place in the township examination, so the results directly alarmed his villagers and fathers. Everyone felt that the local area should be a big figure, and then with this expectation, Tang Bohu embarked on his road to Beijing to catch the exam and participate in the examination.
Bad luck is coming
Tang Bohu, who set foot in the capital, was unfortunate and was involved in a famous imperial examination fraud case of the Ming Dynasty, the Xu Jing scientific examination case. At that time, Tang Yin and Xu Jing first entered the capital, and they wanted to be close to Cheng Minzheng, one of the chief examiners at that time, and Xu Jing took Tang Yin with him, thinking that Xu Jing's grandfather had asked for an epitaph, and visited Cheng Minzheng, and when he asked for literature, he also promised money.
This is recorded in the Records of Emperor Xiaozong: "'Self-proclaimed Minzheng tasted his gold coins'"; "It is said that when he came to Beijing, Mu Minzheng learned, studied in coins, and three questions can be written in between; Xu Jing said that Cheng Minzheng accepted his money, but he did not send money to bribe the examiner and get the examination questions, but because he admired Cheng Minzheng's talent, he wrote an article, planning to ask Cheng Minzheng to point them out, and after being pointed out, the two of them went out to show off their articles being pointed out by the chief examiner. But it just so happened that the article they accidentally wrote was the same as the exam question.
After the test, the candidates who had listened to their show off were shocked and stabbed the matter out. Therefore, the Household Department gave the matter to Zhonghua Chang to play: Hanlin scholar Cheng Minzheng fake hand literary field, Willing City Well, Shizi Initial Field has not entered and the "Analects" title has been recited outside, the second field has not entered and the table question has been recited outside, and the third and fourth questions of the three uninstructed strategies have been recited outside. He said that Xu Minzheng sold the questions by name, because before the exam began, the same questions were already circulated and discussed, and Tang Bohu and Xu Jing were also pointed out, and asked the emperor to investigate and deal with the case.
At that time, the main people involved in the case: Xu Jing, Tang Yin, and Cheng Minzheng were directly arrested and imprisoned, but after interrogation, the three did not commit fraud, which was recorded in great detail in the Ming Dynasty's "Records of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming", and the reason for Cheng Minzheng's final conviction was "'Lin cai Gou, do not avoid suspicion'", did not say that he cheated in scientific examinations, but said that he did not know how to avoid suspicion and accepted other people's money at will. Then he did not cheat, and naturally Tang Bohu and Xu Jing did not cheat. Therefore, Tang Bohu and Xu Jing were released after several interrogations.
But even if Tang Bohu was released, the impact of this imprisonment on him was beyond his imagination. The first is that he was disqualified from participating in the imperial examination again, which is undoubtedly fatal to a person who has been reading since childhood and reading very well. The ancient imperial examination system had a far-reaching impact, and in addition to the "supervision of students" system that the Ming Dynasty once had in the early Ming Dynasty, it was possible not to participate in the imperial examination as an official, and it was later abolished. Tang Bohu was banned from participating in the imperial examination, which meant that in the Ming Dynasty, he no longer had the opportunity to enter the army, which meant that he had no future.
After being released from prison, Tang Bohu originally planned to pack up his spirits and go back to his hometown, but after returning home, he found out the impact of imprisonment on him. First of all, in terms of family, his wife wants to divorce him, this is the Ming Dynasty, how serious the theoretical thinking is, advocating women's observance of the festival, his wife proposed to divorce him, although it shows her determination to divorce, but it also means that in the eyes of Tang Bohu's closest family, he has been destroyed, which is undoubtedly worse for a person who has just passed the disaster of imprisonment.
And his father and fellow countrymen, not to mention, originally thought that Tang Bohu would be a high official and could stain his light, but Tang Bohu was not only imprisoned, but also banned forever. Human nature is sinister, and the person who was originally polite to him has changed into another face and is full of contempt for him. After all, a reader who has no power to bind the chicken has been cut off from the path of examination, which means that he will not be able to appear in this life.
In "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", Jiang Nan Mingyue wrote that "what pained him even more was that even Wangcai, who was guarding the door at the door, saw him and shouted and chased after him to bite." This is no joke, the above description comes from a letter to a friend, and every word is a cruel fact. People unscrupulously belittled him, ridiculed him, his wife's departure, the taunts of the villagers, and even his own dogs began to bark at him, and these successive blows directly pushed Tang Bohu into the fireworks willow alley, and the originally spirited young man had no motivation to live at all.
Entering the fireworks willow alley, he and the image in the current film and television drama have a little overlap, being banned from the exam, being abandoned, being satirized, cruel humanity and cruel reality make him despair. He not only placed his love on the brothels in Suzhou, but also in the brothels across the country, although he had no money, but he had literary talent, and many of the women in the wind and dust had a good level of education, they could appreciate Tang Bohu's talent, and many women were fascinated by him. Not only did he not want his money, but he was even willing to take the initiative to give him money. His name of "Merry Talent" was also called away.
But was that his wish? No. He wanted to slaughter the officials, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered the chief examiner. But from a top genius to having to work in a brothel, Tang Bohu's title of "Merry Talent" contains his unfulfilled wishes, a dark future, a genius in The history of Chinese culture, full of heartache.
However, Zhu Chenhao suddenly invited him to be his own master, Tang Bohu was very happy, because he could not be among the careers, if he could be the master of Wang Ye, it was also close to the center of power, he was happy to get the palace, Wang Ye was very kind to him, he thought he could finally show his talent. But unfortunately, a deeper blow was getting closer and closer to him.
As Wang Ye's trust in him deepened, allowing him to know and see more and more things, he discovered one thing: Wang Ye was afraid that he was going to rebel. Because Wang Ye Tun bing, Tun weapons, this made Tang Bohu frightened out of a cold sweat. Visiting a brothel is just being scolded for being unseemly. It tarnished the reputation of the readers, but following Zhu Chenhao, the prince of the rebellion, could not get a good one, and his life was gone. Tang Bohu decided to flee, but Wang Ye trusted him, and the secrets were known to him, so how could he let him go?
Tang Bohu, who did not want to take a small life, helplessly gave himself an idea, in the Ming Dynasty, where the etiquette was strict, he stripped himself off, went to the street naked to hang out and pretended to be crazy, met a woman and went up to talk, and said that he was the person who ning wang. Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, lost all his face, and also made Zhu Chenhao believe in the fact that a genius has become a madman, which sent Tang Bohu back to his hometown of Suzhou.
Tang Bohu, who returned to Suzhou, ushered in the most unbridled and cheerful time of his life, because Tang Bohu, who had experienced everything, saw everything away, he was addicted to sound and color dogs and horses, no longer cared about others, although he often did not have enough to eat, and finally fell into painting the Spring Palace for a living, but his artistic creation did reach an unprecedented level. But the price of indulgence and debauchery was that his body was no longer working, and he died in 1523 AD.
Tang Bohu's life, in today's parlance, is to go high and low. A genius, because of a small move of his "pig teammate", took the original bright life, according to his own hopes, all day long in the fireworks willow alley, so Tang Bohu, is lonely, not understood. In the film and television drama, he is too cheerful, lucky, he can get drunk on the knees of beautiful people, but it will not be him. Or he in the film and television drama is what everyone wants him to be: crazy and wanton! Laugh at others can't see through.