Many people have seen "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", this story, but also made Tang Bohu and Qiu Xiang both very famous. This story tells the story of Tang Bohu, who was "the first talented man in Jiangnan", fell in love with Qiu Xiang at first sight in the Huataishi Mansion, and later he tried his best to blend into The Mansion of Washington, and experienced many things, and finally embraced the story of the beauty. Although the story seems hilarious, the ending is also beautiful.
However, the real Tang Bohu in history has never lit autumn incense. Tang Bohu in history is not a wind flow, but his life is very bumpy.
Referring to the "History of Ming" and "Research on Tang Yin" and other documents, we can know that Tang Bohu is actually called Tang Yin, and Bohu is actually his word. He was a very famous talent of the Ming Dynasty, a calligrapher, a painter, and a poet. Together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming, and Xu Zhenqing, he was called the "Four Talents of Wu Zhong". The real Tang Bohu in history is indeed very intelligent and talented.
When Tang Bohu was 19 years old, he married his wife Xu Shi, and the two were originally very affectionate, and he had always done what he liked, making friends and chanting poetry. But by the time Tang Bohu was 25 years old, everything had changed, first in his family, his father died, and then his mother, wife, son, etc. died one after another. The family fell in the middle of the road, and the relatives left one after another, and the impact of this series of blows on Tang Bohu was huge. Fortunately, his friends around him always accompanied him and persuaded him to take the examination to obtain a meritorious name.
Later, Tang Bohu took the first place in the township examination, but when he participated in the examination, he was framed, then arrested and imprisoned, and later, he was deposed as an official. According to records, he married another lady between the ages of 25 and 30, but it is impossible to verify who his second wife was, but only that there was a conflict between him and this wife, so he divorced her.
After being wrongfully cheated on the imperial examination, Tang Bohu could no longer take the imperial examination. So he traveled around, and when he was 36 years old, he married Shen Shi, and his third wife, Shen Shi's name was "Shen Jiu Niang", probably because this name made others misunderstand, thinking that this was his ninth "beautiful lady", so there was a saying that Tang Bohu's wives and concubines were numerous and popular. Later, Tang Bohu built a house in Taohuawu, Suzhou, and named it "Peach Blossom Nunnery".
Since the story of Tang Bohu's dotting Qiu Xiang in history does not exist, why is such a story rumored? This story is in the novel of the Ming Dynasty, when they wanted to create a character image of a gentleman, pinning on some stories that they wanted to do but did not dare to do, and Tang Bohu was the protagonist they chose. But in history, there is indeed Qiu Xiang, but she is about 20 years older than Tang Bohu.