Tang Yin was born in the sixth year of Emperor Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty (1470). This year was the year of Gengyin, so his father Tang Guangde named him Tang Yin.
Tang Yin is the eldest son in the family (the eldest son ranks "Bo"), and he belongs to the tiger, so he is called Bohu - the eldest born to the old Tang family in the year of Gengyin Tiger!
Zhengde Jidi (1519), (Ming) Zhang Ling,Tang Bohu Statue
Tang Yin was 50 years old at the time
The image comes from the Internet
The Tang family is also a famous and prestigious family, and has also produced many prominent figures in history, such as Tang Hui, a former Liang (301-376) general born in Jinchang, Tang Jian, one of the twenty-four heroes of the Tang Dynasty Lingyange, and Tang Jie, the deputy chancellor of Song Shenzong.
Tang Yin's "Autumn Wind Fan Diagram" signature "Jinchang Tang Yin"
However, in the generation of Tang Bohu's father, Tang Guangde, the family fell in the middle of the road, and he had no choice but to open a tavern in Wuxiangfang, Suzhou.
Tang Yin Chrysanthemum and chicken picture
One day in the nineteenth year of Chenghua (1483), Wen Lin (Wen Zhengming's father) went to wuxiangfang Tang family tavern to eat wine. When the wine was in full swing, Wen Lin inadvertently glimpsed a fourteen or fifteen-year-old guy, who was born with a clear eyebrow and a face like Fu Powder.
Wen Lin humbly asked the treasurer who this handsome young man was, and the Tang treasurer said radiantly: "It's a dog--Bo Huye!"
Tang Yin's "Ming Tu" signed "Wu Xiang Tang Yin"
Since then, Tang Bohu has known that person, Wen Zhengming, and the two have become good friends for a lifetime.
In the twenty-first year of Chenghua (1485), 16-year-old Tang Bohu took the Xiucai of Suzhou Province, and he did not read much to review, but he took the first place in Suzhou:
The first in the child's hair science, the four seas are called!
——Zhu Yunming's "Tombstone of Tang Ziwei"
Tang Yin View Waterfall Map
The provincial township test in the eleventh year of Hongzhi (1498) made the Tang family in Suzhou raise their eyebrows. Tang Bohu, who came from a merchant's family, took the examination for the first "Nanjing Xieyuan" in the province (South Zhili), and became famous in Jiangnan.
Tang Yin "Nanjing Xieyuan" seal
As "someone else's son", Tang Bohu seems to be a genius, and Father Wen is also particularly appreciative! However, Tang Xieyuan's frivolous personality really caused the Wen family father and son a headache:
Once, Tang Bohu wanted to deliberately tease and tease Wen Zhengming, and Ask wen Zhengming to come to a collection of Su Dongpo's "Chibi Fu", boating on shihu lake, drinking and writing poetry.
When Wen Zhengming got on the boat, the "Chibi Fu" style Yaji immediately became the "Yaji" of the "Golden Bottle Plum", and a large group of flowery Ge Ji appeared! Wen Zhengming immediately turned his face to Tang Bohu: either I get off the boat, or they get off the boat, otherwise I will jump into the lake!
——Xiang Yuanbian's "Miscellaneous Records of the Banana Window" (translation)
Tang Yin, a prostitute of Meng Shu Palace
After becoming a "provincial champion", Tang Bohu was overwhelmed and looking for fun, completely ignoring the next more important capital test!
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), this examination caught fire to two people: one was Wang Yangming, a student of Yuyao in Zhejiang Province, who was inscribed on the gold list and became famous in history; the other was Tang Bohu, a talented man in Suzhou, who both fell off the list and squatted in prison.
Ming Tang Yin Mountain Road Pine Sound Map
In the early spring of this year, Tang Bohu and Xu Jing, the son of a wealthy family, went to Beijing with their companions, and the two were inseparable and prepared to participate in the examination of this science and technology.
When he arrived in Beijing, Tang Bohu swaggered through the market, and his pompous personality was undoubtedly revealed. Before the exam, Tang Bohu said boldly that he would "be the first to try, not me Tang Yin"!
Tang Yin Buxi diagram
As a result, one of the biggest fraud cases in the Koji period broke out, and the storm in the city was known to the whole country! The case of cheating in the imperial examination completely changed Tang Bohu's life.
Regarding Tang Bohu's fraud, there have always been many opinions, and there is no consensus! According to the research of scholar Jiang Zhaoshen, roughly reconstruct the situation at that time:
In the eleventh year of Hongzhi (1498), Tang Bohu stood out in the Ying Tianfu (Nanjing) Township Examination and became the first Xie Yuan in the province. He was admitted by a generation of famous courtiers, Liang Chu (1451-1527).
Liang Chu returned to Beijing to resume his life, and recommended Tang Bohu from Suzhou to Cheng Minzheng (1446-1499), the chief examiner of the examination.
Liang Chu was convinced of Tang Bohu's true talent and practical learning, so he helped to take Tang Bohu's article to Cheng Minzheng to read.
Historically, the reason why Su Dongpo passed the examination for the Jinshi was because Mei Yaochen was wise and discerning, and he picked out his "Treatise on the Reward of Loyalty and Loyalty" from the discarded volume and recommended it to the chief examiner Ouyang Xiu.
Cheng Minzheng read Tang Bohu's article, praised it, and had the idea of admitting Tang Bohu.
Tang Yin Standing Stone Cluster Hui Diagram
In the spring of the following year (1499), Tang Bohu and Xu Jing went to Beijing to meet With Cheng Minzheng. In a lecture to Tang Yin and Xu Jing, Cheng Minzheng inadvertently talked about the Yuan Dynasty Confucian master Liu Yin's "Record of Retreating from Fasting". This book, Tang Bohu read through very early on, and he was familiar with it!
Then, the Gongyuan opened the examination, and the examination question was Liu Yin's "Retreat from Fasting". Tang Bohu, Xu Jing, and fellow villager Du Mu all successfully completed the examination.
After the examination, Tang Bohu, under the public, talked loudly and arrogantly, as if he was in the lead, and the title of the gold list was in sight. Obviously, Tang Bohu's triumphantness made Du Mu, who lived in poverty and immersed himself in hard reading, feel very unhappy in his heart!
A few days later, when Du Mu was chatting with others, he said the "Cheng Minzheng lecture topic" in a grumbling tone. As a result, Du Mu's complaints became the basis for the official Hua Chang to play the impeachment of Cheng Minzheng.
Du Muwan did not expect that one of his grumbling words would be used by others, and finally evolved into a shocking "test question leakage incident".
Tang Bohu, Xu Jing, and Cheng Minzheng were all captured and imprisoned by Jinyiwei. Li Dongyang (another examiner) is a university scholar who trusts Cheng Minzheng's character. In order to help Cheng Minzheng clear his suspicions, Li Dongyang removed Tang Bohu and Xu Jing, who had already been admitted.
Since Tang and Xu were not admitted, why talk about cheating? However, in view of Xu Jing's hammer in giving gifts to Cheng Minzheng's servants, in the end, the emperor chose to go lightly: he released Tang Bohu and Xu Jing, but removed his meritorious name and deposed him as a zhejiang official!
Since then, the Xu family in Jiangyin, few descendants have gone to take the imperial examination again. Xu Jiafu Jia Jiangnan, there is grain and land, and do not go to the exam, so why go?
Sightseeing around the country!
In the end, Xu Jing's descendants produced a well-known traveler in the country - Xu Xiake! The opening day of "Xu Xia's Travels", May 19 (obscure march of the ugly month), was also established by the State Council as "China Tourism Day"!
Engraving of Xu Xiake's "Xu Xiake's Travels"
Cheng Minzheng, who was "erudite and talented, crowned for a while", ended up depressed on the fourth day of his release from prison, and the world was wronged. According to anecdotal rumors: before the kochang fraud case in the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), Fu Han's official Ju Libu Left Shilang and Cheng Min's official JuLibu Right Shilang.
Therefore, Fu Han instructed Hua Chang to impeach Cheng Minzheng. Sure enough, in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi (1500), Fu Han was promoted to the position of Rebbe Shangshu. The Biography of Cheng Minzheng of Ming Shi also records:
Or the prison of Yan Minzheng, Fu Han wants to seize his position, and Ling (Hua) Chang plays it.
- "The Biography of Ming Shi Cheng Min"
If this theory is true, then Tang Bohu will undoubtedly become a victim.
Later, Du Mu learned the ins and outs of the matter and regretted it for the rest of his life. According to Shen Defu's "Wan Liye Zhi zhi", Du Mu was ostracized by the Suzhou literati circle for "falsely accusing Tang Bohu".
Tang Bohu was "deposed as a minor official" by the imperial court. He saw this as a great shame and refused to take office. Wen Zhengming understood him, so he had to rely on the relationship and let Wu Kuan say hello to the local inspector.
Tang Yin lin < Han Xizai's night feast map > the whole volume
Tang Bohu, who escaped the disaster, suddenly lost himself and lost the goal of life struggle:
In front of the rich man is a chess piece, and behind him is half a piece of paper.
In ancient times, Peng Zushou was the most, but what will happen after eight hundred years?
Please listen to me sing and dance, and he will live and die.
—— Tang Yin, "Idle Song"
In 1505, Tang Bohu's act of self-abandonment finally made Wen Zhengming write a "letter of exhortation" with a pen. Unfortunately, Wen Zhengming's "advice" was a bit "against the ear" for Tang Bohu at that time!
Tang Bohu chose "left ear in, right ear out", and also studied Ji Kang, and carefully replied to Wen Zhengming with a "letter of no friendship". The boat of friendship, when it is turned over, it is turned over:
Yin Dun first signed the foot. ...... Yin Shu Fa engaged, twenty years. Do not embellish, with touch to honor anger, but the cattle go along with the sheep, may not be different also. Sincerely.
—— Tang Yin, "Book of Signs and Signs"
It was not until the eighth year of Zhengde (1513) that Tang Bohu understood Wen Zhengming's good intentions and realized the truth that "good medicine is good for the disease". He felt very deeply, so he wrote a sincere letter to Wen Zhengming, and the two reconciled:
Xi Xiangqiu was seven years old and became a Confucius teacher, Yin Chang Zhengming Ten Reading Moon, wishing to be Confucius, with Zhengming as a teacher, non-word Fuye, Gai Xin Fuye.
—— Tang Yin, "The Book of The Book of Zhengming Again"
Tang Yin MoMeitu
Tang Bohu's tragic experience not only did not alienate the Suzhou gentry, but also gave him a kind of "aura" of victims, which aroused the unanimous sympathy of the Jiangnan scholars and gradually became legendary.
Tang Bohu sighed: Everything has a way, such as dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, such as dew, and like electricity. Self-proclaimed six like a layman!
Tang Yin 'Six Like a LayMan' Seal
In The Peach Blossom Dock on the outskirts of Suzhou, a "Peach Blossom Nunnery" was built, and he called himself the master of the Peach Blossom Nunnery:
Peach Blossom Wood in Peach Blossom An, Peach Blossom An under the Peach Blossom Fairy.
Peach blossom immortals plant peach trees, and then pick peach blossoms in exchange for wine money.
The drunk only sits in front of the flower, and the drunk comes to sleep under the flower.
Half drunk and half awake day after day, flowers fall and blossom year after year.
I hope that the old dead flower wine room is not willing to bow down in front of the carriage and horse.
The car dust horse is full of rich people, and the wine cup flower branches are poor.
If the rich are more rich than the poor, one is on the flat earth and the other is in the sky.
If he compares poverty to a cart and a horse, he will drive me to idleness.
People laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others who can't see through it.
There is no tomb of Wuling Haojie, no flowers and no wine hoes for the field.
—— Tang Yin, "Peach Blossom Anthem"
He painted and wrote at the "Peach Blossom Temple", supported himself, despised the powerful, and felt satisfied with his life of painting for a living:
No alchemy, no sitting meditation, no cultivation for the merchants.
Write in the day to sell the green mountains, do not make the world make evil money.
- Tang Yin's "Poetry of Speech"
Tang Yin Lin Li Gonglin drank the immortal map partially
The income from selling paintings is acceptable, and life has finally come to an end. However, Tang Bohu was not happy, he was depressed and sad, lamenting that he did not meet with talent, and his ambition was difficult to reward:
How many good flowers are empty, and I have never met a flower appreciator.
—— Tang Yin's "Falling Flower Poem"
The flowers are delicate and beautiful, but unfortunately, until the flowers fall and wither, no one appreciates them. Tang Bohu had no choice but to collect and bury the fallen flowers:
Tang Yinju Peach Blossom Nunnery, Xuan Forecourt half acre, a variety of peony flowers, when the opening of the invitation Wen Zhengming, Zhu Zhishan fu poems floated under it, sometimes shouted and cried.
When the flowers fell, (Tang Yin) reprimanded a small servant one by one, collected them one by one, filled them with tips, and buried them on the east bank of the medicine bar, and sent them as "Falling Flowers Poems".
—— Tang Zhongmian "Six RuJushi Outer Collection"
The plot of Tang Bohu's burial of flowers, 200 years later, was borrowed and appropriated by another fallen literati, his name was Cao Xueqin. "Dai Yu Funeral Flower" has also become one of the classic sections of the entire "Dream of the Red Chamber".
As the saying goes, the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to move! Tang Bohu still let loose the skeleton of the wave, and the wave traced between the Qinglou and the liquor store, becoming a hot calligraphy and painting talent in Jiangnan.
The same is the end of the world fell people, why should they have met each other! Tang Bohu accidentally met a famous prostitute in Suzhou who also had a bad fate, Shen Jiuniang.
Shen Jiuniang was understanding and talented, and gave Tang Bohu spiritual comfort in the most difficult time. In the first year of Zhengde (1505), Tang Bohu broke through the shackles of etiquette and officially married Shen Jiuniang.
Tang Yin Thatched Futon Diagram
Tang Bohu married three wives before and after his lifetime. The first wife, Xu Shi, had a red face and a short life; the second wife, He Shi, loved vanity, and after the examination fraud case, "husband and wife turned against each other".
The third wife was Shen Jiuniang. She was gentle and virtuous, and took good care of Tang Bohu's diet and living, which made him feel warm in frustration.
In the seventh year of Zhengde (1512), Shen Jiuniang, who was in love with each other, died of overwork. Tang Bohu was heartbroken and cried into a tearful person. Since then, Tang Bohu has never forgotten her and has written poems and thoughts many times:
Acacia looked at each other, and tears fell on the door.
Yang Liu Xiaoyan was emotionally chaotic, and Pear Blossom Twilight Rain dreamed of soul destruction.
——Tang Yin, "Missing Shen Jiuniang on the Road of Yangzhou"
In the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), Zhu Chenhao, the long-planned king of Ning, prepared to recruit talents with the intention of rebellion. In the Suzhou area, King Ning recruited Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming: Tang Bohu rekindled his dream of being an official and gladly went to the appointment; Wen Zhengming was cautious and cautious, and politely refused the invitation of King Ning!
This time, Tang Bohu had a heart eye. After learning that Zhu Chenhao wanted to raise an army to rebel, he was "naked and pretended to be crazy" in front of the public.
Running naked, only Wei Jin celebrities had done this! Zhu Chenhao, the King of Ning, felt very faceless and could not get off the stage, so he had to let Tang Bohu return home.
Tang Yin rode a donkey back to Situ
Since then, he has lingered in the fireworks and wine alleys, completely eliminating the idea of fame and career!
The income from his paintings was far from enough for him to eat, drink and have fun, and he often ate grain and became poor:
In the midst of spring sorrow and illness, the branches of flowers are rained and blown by wind.
The sideburns are old white and white, and the bottom of the tree is dark red for light red.
—— Tang Yin, "Falling Flowers"
Tang Yin "ranked first in the dragon and tiger list, drunk in the fireworks team"
In the second year of Jiajing (1523), Tang Bohu's health deteriorated, and years of alcoholism and indulgence finally emptied his body.
Tang Bohu's life was bright and frank, and at this time he had transcended life and death and calmly faced the advent of death:
Born in the Yang Realm, there is a scattering field, and it is better to die and return to the underground house.
The Yang Dynasty is similar, only when drifting in a foreign land.
—— Tang Yin's "Dying Poem"
Shortly after the poem ended, Tang Bohu died suddenly at the age of fifty-four.
Tang YinYuan (No. 146, Jiefang West Road, Gusu District, Suzhou), a key cultural relics protection unit
Tomb of Tang Yin (No. 146, Jiefang West Road, Gusu District, Suzhou), a key cultural relics protection unit
Tang Yin Garden Lotus Pond (No. 146, Jiefang West Road, Gusu District, Suzhou), a key cultural relics protection unit
In addition to his younger brother Tang Shen, the family had only one daughter (married to Wang Longgang, the son of Wang's favorite). According to the standards of the sons of the ancients, Tang Bohu can be described as depressed behind him, and the incense is unsustainable.
Because he was childless, his funeral was cooked by his friends Wen Zhengming, Wang Pet, Zhu Yunming and others. Zhu Yunming regretted and wrote a touching epitaph for Tang Bohu.
Tang Yin Female Figure
Tang Yin paintings, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming inscriptions
From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, after many notes, wild histories and Fang Zhi added fuel and vinegar, a talented but impoverished by the injustice of the imperial court, so only the image of a talented man who expressed his resentment with calligraphy, painting, poetry and wine was slowly shaped.
In cultural history, Tang Bohu ranked among the "Four Talents of The Ming Dynasty" and the "Four Talents of Wumen" in Suzhou, and was also the first talent of Jiangnan.
Tang Yin WuyangZi nourishment chart
In the folk, Tang Bohu's ups and downs in life have been given a legendary color, and have become the talk of the people in the tea house and the people.
As a result, Tang Bohu's wife, Shen Jiuniang, was falsely believed by Wang Wenshengyi and false rumors that Tang Bohu had married nine wives and concubines: first married eight concubines, and later ordered Qiu Xiang, and eight beauty became nine beauty (the number of nine women).
This anecdote, fueled by novels and music arts, as well as the addition of oil and vinegar to modern films, finally formed the story of "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", which is well-known in China and is well known to women and children.
Feng Menglong's "Cautionary Tale" "Tang Xieyuan Three Laughing Marriage"
Tang Bohu's life was written into the official history, and his deeds were compiled into the barnyard history of the drama. His calligraphy and paintings became precious collections in art history, and even the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty praised him.