For thousands of years, most of the talents were far away from ordinary people, but Tang Bohu was so close to us. His experiences, his thoughts, his actions, are very close to us. He is a grassroots, just like us; he is bound by the environment, he makes an angry cry, he relieves the resentment of the world; he behaves obediently and does not conform to the law, but these are what we want to do but dare not do, and while we preach and love him, we are also relieving the pressure on us.
He and our ordinary people are emotionally similar, and how similar they are to things, the only difference is that he is a talented man, and we ordinary people are ordinary people. For the polarization of the evaluation of later generations, Tang Bohu had already anticipated it. However, what he did not expect was that the overwhelming majority of those who would hold praise for him in the future would be the majority. As he put it in "BoHu's Self-Praise", "Who am I asking you?" You turned out to be me. I didn't recognize you, but you wanted to recognize me. belch. I can't get you, but you don't have me. A hundred years after you and me, there you didn't have me. ”
Tang Bohu is just like us - love money, hate money
As far as the problem of money is concerned, he is very similar to our ordinary people's thinking. When people are poor, they often like to attack money, and Tang Bohu is the same. Later generations called him a talented man, and many legends were invented about how popular his paintings were.
However, in fact, Tang Bohu, like many talented people, received great glory after death. This does not exclude the impulse of businessmen to capital, such as calligraphers and painters, book publishers; nor does it exclude the deliberate exaggeration of talents with the same personality as him in order to flaunt themselves...
The truth is cruel, he shouted in the poem, "The letter is the real thing about me, no one comes to buy the fan-headed poem." He shouted indignantly, "Do not make evil money in the world." However, in the end, the tragedy of his life is also "a place to die", if it is not a group of friends, and the admirers of future generations, the words "where is the soul of today" must come from the mouth of some future generations.
When we are tortured and especially have no money, we tend to be depressed and tell ourselves, "Bear with me!" Bear with me! And Tang Bohu was the same, he sang: "Hundred ninja songs, hundred ninja songs, life can't bear it? I am now with Ru Ge Bai Ren, Ru Dang clapped his hands and smiled huh! Chao also endures, Twilight also endures; shame also endures, humiliation also endures; bitterness endures, pain endures; hunger endures, cold endures..."
As a small businessman who sells paintings for a living, the owner of his paintings, The Qinglou industry is a large group; the buyers after he composes music and fills in the words are practitioners of the Qinglou; many of his poems are also written for the practitioners of the Qinglou; his other way of making a living- writing novels, which are pornographic novels. So, what kind of literati is he?
Perhaps, you will say that he is shameless, but if you look closely at his life and examine the times at that time, you will find that he is a small person, although he is a genius, but in the big times, he can only obey.
Because I couldn't borrow it before I almost broke off my friendship with my friends
In 1505, Tang Bohu's good friend Xu Zhenqing was admitted to the jinshi, and everyone was very happy. Tang Bohu was also preparing to build the Peach Blossom Nunnery, and in order to marry a Qinglou woman, Shen Jiuniang, he did not hesitate to break off his friendship with his good friend Wen Zhengming, and even fought with his own brother Tang Shen. Tang Bohu had to move with Shen Jiuniang to live elsewhere, but because the house was small, Tang Bohu decided to build a villa- Taohua'an.
Taohuawu was originally the villa of the Song Dynasty Zhangzhuang Jian, but after the vicissitudes of wind and rain, it has long become a ruin. However, because this place has a pleasant view, there is water (a small stream), trees and a small mound, which is very suitable for the semi-reclusive Tang Bohu to live. To this end, he also drew up the names of several rooms, such as "Xueputang", "Mengmo Pavilion", "Butterfly Zhai" and so on
Although Tang Bohu also has the unspoken rule that everyone who buys paintings must send wine, however, this is only when his paintings are selling well. When the whole family was hungry and cold, Tang Bohu could only sigh in vain that "I will not make evil money in the world."
This period was the peak stage of Tang Bohu's creation. Despite the efforts, the project of Peach Blossom An did not go smoothly, and there was a risk of becoming a rotten building. Unfortunately, at this time, the creditors came one after another, and Tang Bohu, who was helpless, had to borrow money from Xu Zhenqing, a friend who was an official.
It turned out that in the 1501 Xu Zhenqing Township Examination, he wanted to go to the capital to take the test but did not have money, Tang Bohu and other friends funded to help him, but unfortunately failed the 1502 examination. Three years later, in 1505, the test was held again.
According to the usual people's thinking, such a big talent, when he is an official, can definitely become a big official, and he is talented. Tang Bohu would definitely give him money to borrow, and what Tang Bohu didn't expect was that Xu Zhenqing actually said that there was no money!
After reading Xu Zhenqing's reply without borrowing money, you can imagine Tang Bohu's anger. He felt very wronged: he thought that in that year, in order to give Xu Zhenqing the travel expenses to enter Beijing to catch the exam, he contributed the most, and he and his wife were divorced. No, after this guy became an official, his nostrils were facing the sky, it was really intolerable, Tang Bohu ignored Xu Zhenqing in anger.
Xu Zhenqing really didn't have any money
In fact, Tang Bohu and we both made a mistake. Talented people may not be able to become officials, especially high officials. In fact, Xu Zhenqing's official was tired and depressed.
Because he looked ugly, the emperor was disgusted after seeing it, so he did not let him go to the Hanlin Academy to do Hanlin according to the rules (Hanlin yuan is an institution specializing in drafting secret edicts, Hanlin must often see the emperor, and the emperor is also not upset because he is not bothered), so he was sent to Dali Temple as a left attendant.
The salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were particularly low, and he was in Dali Temple, which is equivalent to today's Supreme Court, and became a minor official dali temple zuosi (seven or eight pins), even if he wanted to be greedy, I am afraid that he would not be able to take his turn. What's more, although he was ugly, he was not ugly in heart, but he was a just and honest official.
In 1506, when Tang Bohu borrowed money, Xu Zhenqing was in the most unfortunate period of his official career, and he was demoted to Dr. Guozi because he was deceived by his subordinate officials and let go of a prisoner in a vague way. But coincidentally, at this unfortunate moment, Tang Bohu came to borrow money. How could he possibly have?
Tang Bohu, who did not know the inside story, blamed Xu Zhenqing, and Xu Zhenqing did not reply to himself when he saw that several months had passed, and he did not write back to himself, and he did not care to write and exchange poems again, and his psychology was greatly puzzled. Inadvertently, after talking with his friends, he learned that Tang Bohu was very dissatisfied with his behavior of not borrowing money. To this end, Xu Zhenqing hurriedly wrote to Tang Bohu to inform him of his helplessness.
After Tang Bohu saw this letter, he understood Xu Zhenqing's helplessness at that time and wrote back to reconcile with him.
Many people are very surprised that Tang Bohu is also so worldly, but this is the real Tang Bohu. Tang Bohu is indeed a genius, and indeed a genius, but the talent and genius are not monsters that do not eat fireworks in the world.