Many years ago, Zhou Xingchi's "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang" was popular all over the country, and Tang Bohu's image of a gentleman was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The answer is no. According to historical records, Tang Bohu was a great talent of the Ming Dynasty, who entered Beijing at the age of thirty to take the examination, and originally wanted to obtain fame and fortune and then serve the imperial court.
However, the test questions of that year were very biased, and only two candidates could answer them, including Tang Bohu. Those candidates who fell on the list were jealous and hateful, so they said that Tang Bohu had bribed the chief examiner, and the emperor was quite angry and immediately asked Jinyi Wei to thoroughly investigate the matter, and Tang Bohu was stripped of his rank because he was framed and demoted to a county magistrate.
This incident dealt a great blow to Tang Bohu, believing that this was an insult to his own personality, and he resigned his official position and went home in a huff, and his wife divorced him because of this, and Tang Bohu became a lonely man. After all, life still has to go on, Tang Bohu gradually came out of decadence, but because his family was too poor, he could only rely on selling calligraphy and paintings for a living.
If he had not offended the imperial court, Tang Bohu's calligraphy and paintings would certainly have been highly sought after, and his life would have been quite moist. However, since that incident came out, he was not only hopeless in his career, but also ridiculed by people, calligraphy and paintings could only be sold cheaply, three meals a day were problematic, and he could not eat a meal of meat for a long time.
At that time, there was a county order to build a new hut, although this person did not have much talent, but he liked to be subservient and elegant, and he was also more high-profile. After the completion of the hut, the county order not only put firecrackers and bamboo to celebrate, but also paid a high price to find literati to write couplets for the hut to reflect that they were relatively high. According to common sense, many literati can write good couplets, but when they heard that couplets were written for huts, almost no one was willing to take this job, thinking that it was a shame.
Later, the county order raised the price, and several people wrote some couplets for this money, but due to the limited literary talent, they were not adopted, which made the county order quite depressed. At this moment, the county commander suddenly remembered Tang Bohu, who was selling calligraphy and paintings on the street, and immediately sent someone to invite him to the palace. At first, Tang Bohu also refused, but at this time he was already too poor to open the pot, and he couldn't take care of so much for the huge amount of 50 taels of silver.
The county commander knew that Tang Bohu was very talented, and specially let people prepare good wine and good dishes to entertain Tang Bohu. Seeing that the county order would do things like this, Tang Bohu was happy not to do it, no matter whether it was three or seven twenty-one, he would eat and drink heavily. After three rounds of wine, Tang Bohu let people take pens, ink and paper, and wrote such a couplet with a smile: "Uplink: And it seems that the guests are affectionate, and the belt is not regrettable; the lower link: Mo Dao This thing is useless, and it is more protective of flowers when it turns into spring mud." ”
As soon as this joint came out, the people present were full of praise, expressing admiration for Tang Bohu's talent, and the county order was also very satisfied, and immediately asked the next person to bring fifty taels of silver. Tang Bohu was also not polite, resolutely accepted, and before leaving, he took up a pen to write down a couplet, and gave it to the county order for free, the couplet was: "Shanglian: The hero of the world Haojie came here to bow down to the subject, and the lower link: The virtuous woman of the world came in and loosened her skirt." ”
There are many talents in the world who can recite poems and make pairs, but the people who can write such a stunning couplet for the toilet are estimated to be Tang Bohu. If you were asked to write a couplet for the toilet, how would you write it?