The four talents of Jiangnan must have heard about it, especially Tang Yin Tang Bohu, Tang Bohu is widely known because of Zhou Xingchi's "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", but in real history, Tang Bohu did not light Qiu Xiang, and Tang Bohu's life can also be described by two words of tragedy.
Tang Bohu was a famous painter, calligrapher and poet of the Ming Dynasty. His father is a businessman, his mother is a big girl, the Tang family is also a well-known business family in the local area, Tang Bohu is the eldest son, there is a younger brother and sister, when he was 18 years old, Tang Bohu married the local famous Xu family' big girl.
Tang Bohu was originally a brother of gongzi, and he devoted himself to the career of painting until the seventh year of Hongzhi (1494), Tang Bohu's parents died one after another, and after his sister got married, he also died of illness, and the Family of Tang gradually declined, and Tang Bohu prepared to participate in the imperial examination under the advice of his friend Zhu Zhishan.
Through several years of hard reading, Tang Bohu was admitted to the Yuan at the age of 28, and the next year at the age of 29, he entered Beijing with Xu Jing of Jiangyin to participate in the examination, Xu Jing heard that the test questions in recent years were very unpopular, and few people could answer them, so Xu Jing took Tang Bohu to see the chief examiner Cheng Minzheng.
Originally, Tang Bohu just went to meet, but Xu Jing secretly bribed Cheng Minzheng with money and was ready to pass the pass, Tang Bohu did not know this, after the exam, Tang Bohu and Xu Jing's examination papers were appreciated by the chief examiner, but Xu Jing's bribery of the examiner was leaked.
The imperial court began to investigate, Tang Bohu was implicated for no reason, the two were exploited into official positions, assigned to the county as a small official, after Tang Bohu was degraded, he was not willing, he gave up the opportunity to serve, so he returned to his hometown, and Tang Bohu's story had spread everywhere.
Tang Bohu's wife quarreled with him every day, and later had to endure the pain of divorcing his wife, Xu Shi also remarried others, Tang Bohu in addition to his wife, there is a younger brother, Xu Shi left, his brother will share the family property with Tang Bohu, after which Tang Bohu became a prodigal son of tourists. By the age of thirty-four, he was poor and could only make a living by selling paintings.
When Tang Bohu fell, he met a confidant with a red face, in history, Tang Bohu had a total of three wives, Xu Shi, the second one can not be verified, the third is Shen Shi, Shen Jiuniang, Tang Bohu has been indulging in wine since traveling the world, Shen Jiuniang is also a dust woman.
She admired Tang Bohu's talent, but also respected his Qinggao, after she jumped out of the fire pit, she married Tang Bohu, the two people also had a daughter, but Tang Bohu and Shen Jiuniang have always lived very poor, Shen Jiuniang is also overworked, a few years later also went, after the daughter grew up, Tang Bohu entrusted him to his friend's son Wang Yang.
Later, king Ning mutinied, he captured Tang Bohu, Tang Bohu did not want to serve King Ning, he pretended to be crazy and stupid before being put back by King Ning, he did not want to involve his family, he kept drifting outside, until after his death, his friend Zhu Zhishan received the news, and took Tang Bohu back to be buried near the Peach Blossom Temple. What do you think about Tang Bohu's life?