After "The Long Season" and "Huanyan", the third work "Under the Prosperous City" launched by Tencent X Theater still continues to be filmed and produced at a high level. Wang Zheng, a screenwriter and director from advertising, has hidden a lot of easter eggs in this drama, the biggest of which is the powerful actor Ning Li's Song Dianshi, whose prototype can be traced back to the famous genius Tang Bohu in the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is the one-to-one correspondence of surnames, names and even words, or the fraud case that affects the fate of a lifetime, or the "Apricot Blossom Fairy Song" that is highly parody of "Song of Peach Blossom An" at the end, it all reminds people of Tang Yin, a peerless genius who was trapped in the ups and downs of fate more than 500 years ago. Although there was "Tang Jieyuan's Laughing Marriage" (1624) in Feng Menglong's "Warning to the World", and "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance" (1993) by Stephen Chow, it was finally a joke that was blinding. On the contrary, it is the "cool official" Song Dianshi who "doesn't want geese to leave a voice, as long as people have pulled teeth", his talent, his madness, his indignation, his depression, his wild laughter, his lamentation, his birth was not at the right time, his flowers were drunk, his bag was shy, and his mind was uneasy...... It makes people touch a real Tang Bohu in history.
Listen to it again, and you are already a person in the song
Obviously, Wang Zheng put a lot of thought into the design of the character of Song Dianshi. His surname is Song Mingchen, and the word Zhongqiu just corresponds to the unborn Jiangnan genius - surnamed Tang Mingyin, and the word Bohu. The Tang and Song dynasties were all dynasties, and there was a Song dynasty after the Tang Dynasty; Yin and Chen both came from the twelve earthly branches, and Chen was after Yin; Bo Zhong Shu Ji Nai brothers ranked, and Bo Hou was Zhong; Qiu was a dragon, corresponding to the tiger. From this point of view, the prototype of Song Zhongqiu, who was involved in the fraud case in the field and was depressed, is undoubtedly Tang Bohu. What's even more interesting is that Wei Zhixian, who is known as the "cat official", is actually a serial killer who repeatedly left famous sentences of "Analects" on the deceased, and his name is the meaningful "Wei Fengshi". Xiaobaozi, the "turtle" who was once born in Cuihualou, was Weizhi County twenty years later. As the so-called "born at the wrong time", this deep irony is not only projected on Wei Zhixian himself, but also always shrouded in another more tragic figure, he is the Song Zhongqiu of the year, and the later Song Dianshi. We see that when the ghost hand Liu XVII threw the flying knife at Wei Zhixian to assassinate, Song Dianshi generously died for blocking it in front of him. At that moment, the fates of the two were tightly linked. So, we can borrow the characters from the play to complete an interesting couplet:
Shanglian: Tang Bohu
Downlink: Song Zhongqiu
Horizontal batch: Wei Fengshi
After experiencing the ups and downs of life, Tang Yin, who was once infinitely beautiful, became a down-and-out genius Tang Bohu, and Song Zhongqiu, who was also famous all over the world, became a ruthless and cruel Song Dynasty history. I think this adaptation is really a stroke of genius. In the sixth episode, the mystery of Song Chen's life experience surfaced, this was scolded by Xia Zhutou as "a lowly official with no grade, no rank, and no stream", but in fact, the emperor appointed the heir to the official, and he can enjoy the salary of the fifth official. In fact, Song Zhongqiu, who suffered unjustly injustice, could choose any position within the scope of the county order, including the county chief and the chief bookkeeper, but he chose this subordinate official in charge of arrest and prison - Dian Shi, which is equivalent to the current county public security chief and prison director. He wanted to use all the punishments he suffered in prison to this post where he could be tortured at will, and he tattooed the cruel and vengeful beast on his body. Later, he sighed: "I thought that life and death were just a threshold, this side was life, and crossing over was death, it was just a matter of a moment." It wasn't until later that I learned that death can be very slow and slow, and that people can die little by little. From Song Zhongqiu to Song Dianshi, "half of them have become ghosts, and they can no longer become humans." There is no greater sorrow than this.
So, also in the sixth episode, when we saw the scene where Song Dianshi went to Cuihualou to find Chunxing to buy drunk and dispel sorrows, the huge internal emotional tension was set off by Ning Li's explosive acting skills, which made people applaud. One is a frustrated genius full of resentment, the other is a girl at the end of the seat who is rarely seen, the lonely Song Chen saw his current self in Chunxing, it was really "more than 20 years like a dream, although this body is shocking". Because "his stomach is not happy", Chunxing invited him to listen to the "song that doesn't want money", and the song floating from the first card room next door is "Xianlu Parasitic Grass":
Dry lotus bottom, heron silk. The hosta incense provokes the butterfly wings, the sky goose writes oblique words, and the red leaves of the royal ditch are inscribed. The east fence pottery makes the wine wake up, but the west wind is yellow.
As the saying goes, "I don't know the meaning of the words when I am young, and I am already a person in the song when I listen to it again". The beautiful and tactful but infinitely sad lyrics reactivated the talented Song Zhongqiu, who had long since died and was deeply buried. So, in deep excitement, he picked up the pen and wrote, but his mutilated right hand, which had only two fingers left, could not even hold the pen. After a frenzy and trembling struggle, he directly dipped his thumb in ink and wrote this oral masterpiece on the screen, and said repeatedly: "This is my word!"
Drunk and unable to sing for 12 years, he was happy in prison and slept in prison.
Don't say that you have a name in the sea, who believes that there is no wine money in your waist.
Tang Bohu "Old Picture of Xizhou Dialect"
This bloody work naturally reminds people of Tang Bohu's masterpiece "Old Picture of Xizhou Dialect" in his later years. In this painting, there are obvious signs of trembling handwriting at the transitional connection of the branches and leaves of the trunk, especially in the long lines, and the atmosphere of the whole painting is filled with a kind of "sick appearance", which is naturally related to his physical illness at that time, in fact, it is also inseparable from his life experience and state of mind. The inscription poems on it have gone far beyond the traditional function of complementing the meaning of the painting and adding interest, but the sense of personal experience and life experience is contained in it, thus greatly increasing the appeal and emotional depth of the painting. Wang Guowei once quoted Nietzsche as saying in "Words in the World": "All literature, the rest of the love is written in blood." Similarly, Tang Bohu's paintings in the middle and late stages can be said to be "those who use blood as ink". Such a work is a flat and comfortable life, such as Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, who can never draw it. If some people think that it is impossible to completely determine that the prototype of Song Zhongqiu is Tang Bohu from the name, then when they see the inscription poem on the painting by Tang Yin, who is already in the year of the Mandate of Heaven, there should be no more doubts:
Drunk dancing and singing for 50 years, sleeping in the flowers and the moon.
The name is spread in the sea, who believes that there is no wine money in the waist.
How is innocence in the world?
According to the institutional arrangement of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, it was successively divided into four stages: the children's examination, the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination. In "Under the Prosperous City", Song Zhongqiu "had the name of a prodigy when he was young, he won the Xiucai at the age of sixteen, the first in the township examination at the age of nineteen, and took the Xie Yuan, and entered Beijing at the age of twenty-eight to take the exam, and the first one was the first to take the Huiyuan, and everyone said that when it came to the palace examination, he was the champion." In other words, this genius, who has already become famous in the sea, is only one step away from reaching the pinnacle of life in the minds of all scholars in ancient times. However, Song Zhongqiu, who was "proud of the spring breeze", thought that he was about to embark on a broad road, but he was arrested and put in prison before the palace examination, and the reason was the "Huiyuan Science Field Fraud Case" that caused a sensation in the government and the opposition. In fact, Tang Yin's life experience back then was almost the same as Song Chen in the play.
In the twelfth year of the reign of Ming Hongzhi (1499), Tang Bohu came to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, which was a very important examination in his imperial examination career. Most of the candidates who are admitted are called tributes, and most of them will be admitted as jinshi by the emperor. If it is the first place in the examination, it will be a huiyuan. Tang Bohu knew that this was a critical moment to change his fate, so he made a special trip to visit Cheng Minzheng, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites. Back then, Liang Chu, the chief examiner of Tang Bohu's township examination, recommended Tang Bohu to Cheng many times, and even bluntly said: "The servant has to be born in the southern capital, and the world is talented, please look for it." Therefore, Cheng Minzheng is no stranger to this famous Jiangnan talent, the two talked very happily, Cheng admired Tang Bohu, and also made a special speculation on the title of this year's examination. Who would have thought that not long after Tang Bohu left Cheng Zhai, Cheng Minzheng was appointed by Ming Xiaozong as the deputy examiner. As a result, as soon as the exam was over and the results were not yet released, a "top hot search" was circulated: someone found that Tang Bohu was writing and playing the title of the eight-strand essay before the exam, which was very close to the questions of the just-concluded exam. In this way, public opinion was detonated all at once.
"Tang Bohu's Collected Notes"
In fact, at that time, Tang Bohu was already famous all over the world, as early as when he was 16 years old in high school, Suzhou Mansion showed talent, he stood out from the Jiangnan literati circle full of talents, this first gold content is so high that his friend Zhu Zhishan expressed his worship with the words "the four seas are amazing". Therefore, when Tang Bohu came to the capital, there was an endless stream of people who came to him to ask for words and paintings, and as soon as his head was hot, he used the exam questions speculated by Cheng Minzheng for him to play with practice writing and playing, and gave them to others. Soon, this headline in the capital was targeted by a person, who was Hua Chang, who was in charge of supervising the officials. Although Fahrenheit is not in a high official position, he has the right to report and play. When he learned of this explosive news, he hurriedly wrote a letter to the emperor. At the same time, he also suggested checking the test papers approved by Cheng Minzheng and whether Tang Bohu was admitted. Ming Xiaozong was immediately furious after reading the recital, and ordered the chief examiner Li Dongyang to thoroughly investigate the case. After unusually careful and repeated review, Li found that Tang Bohu's examination paper had not been admitted, and reported the results of the examination to the emperor.
However, innocence is the most difficult thing in the world to prove. The fact that the test paper was not admitted does not prove the innocence of Cheng Minzheng and Tang Bohu. In this way, under the influence of huge public opinion, Tang Bohu was still arrested and put in prison without clarity. At this time, another key figure appeared, that is, Lin Tingyu, who was the assistant to the chief examiner. He reflected three things in his letter to the emperor: first, when the imperial court decided to postpone the announcement of the admission list, Cheng Minzheng seemed very nervous; second, Cheng Minzheng told the examiners that the leakage of the questions was most likely the work of his entourage; third, Cheng Minzheng knew that when the imperial court asked Li Dongyang to review the examination papers he reviewed, he would deal with all the candidates who answered the examination questions as unlisted. Lin fired three arrows at the same time, all of which were shot at Cheng Minzheng alone, which shows the severity of the political struggle between the DPRK and China. However, although Cheng Minzheng is a civil official, he is a tough one, he resolutely refuses to admit the fraud, and asks to confront Lin Tingyu in court.
Seeing that things were about to get out of hand, Ming Xiaozong decided to put Cheng Minzheng aside and interrogate Tang Bohu instead. Where could a weak scholar endure the severe torture in the prison of the DPRK and the Central People's Republic of China, and he was soon beaten into a trick. The results of the relevant handling are recorded in the "Records of Ming Xiaozong, Volume 151": "Ordered Min Zheng to be a scholar, Chang transferred the master book of Nanjing Taifu Temple; "The whistleblower Hua Chang was only transferred to the master of Nanjing Taifu Temple from the matter, Cheng Minzheng was directly dismissed from the official position, and Tang Bohu was the most severely punished, not only was he disqualified from lifting people, but also served as a servant. Of course, his crime is not to cheat in the scientific field, but to "seek progress by fate", that is, to achieve his goal by giving gifts and going through the back door in order to succeed in the imperial examination. Now, when we look back on this case, we will find that Cheng Minzheng did not sell the question, and Tang Bohu did not buy the question, but it accidentally became a fraud case. Let's ask, where can Tang Bohu's grievances be redressed?
This can't help but remind people of the impressive "in-depth conversation" between Wei Fengshi, the county magistrate, and Song Dianshi in the last episode. Wei Zhixian knew very well that the scientific research fraud case that completely changed the fate of Song Zhongqiu's life was actually nothing more than a political struggle between political enemies in the court. Song Chen and his friends inadvertently became victims and scapegoats of the party struggle. So, Wei Zhixian, who was also born at the wrong time, said for Song Chen a series of painful words that had been depressed in his heart for many years but could not be spoken:
What makes your half ghost unsurpassable is that even if the court announces to the world and returns you to the yuan and gives you high-ranking officials, your right hand still can't hold a pen, and the neighbors will still say that you made money, and your friend still dies with hatred. But none of them have been punished for the imperial history officials who reported in the previous book, the officials of the criminal department who made you disabled, the ministers of the court who were busy with party disputes, and the foolish people who bit you to death for fraud and bribery! Song Dianshi, it's not that your injustice can't be redressed, it's your revenge, and there is nowhere to revenge!
The world laughed at me for being crazy
In the third episode, Song Chen appeared in Cuihualou for the first time, because there was his only confidante there-Chun Xing. This half-dead man with a tattoo of Jianwei, Chunxing is the last touch of softness in his heart. Facing this only benefactor, Chun Xingjiao said angrily: "Sister Yingrui's life is really good, she can compose poems, and there are fresh fish to eat every day, how delicious the fish is." Song Chen bluntly said that Lin's mother was too stingy, "Can you eat a fish and make her poor?" In fact, Chun Xing has long accepted this unspoken rule of the workplace - there are few guests, no performance, what fresh fish to eat? Do you have the face to eat? So, she said eagerly: "Master Song spoils me once a month, and I can eat fresh fish at least once a month." In her opinion, the fish is the hope. However, Song Chen sighed, half-puffed out a cigarette and said, "What if I don't come again in the future?" At this time, Song Chen said a very painful and sober sentence very seriously:
Your hope should be a fish, not me. Remember, never think of people as hopes.
What a painful realization! This is clearly through Song Chen's mouth to express Tang Yin's painful realization. Six years after the science field was falsely accused, in that season when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, Tang Bohu wrote the famous "Peach Blossom Anthem" in the peach blossom dock that escaped the world, "I hope that the old man dies in the flower wine room, and he is unwilling to bow in front of the carriage and horse...... Others laugh at me for being coquettish, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and I don't have flowers and wine to hoe fields", every sentence is pouring out his sense of disillusionment with officialdom and the world. Let's pull our thoughts back to the beautiful and disillusioned ending of "Under the Prosperous City", Qu San found the letter left by the latter to Chunxing in the relics of the Song Dynasty, which is a poem called "The Song of the Apricot Blossom Fairy", which is clearly a high degree of parody of "The Song of the Peach Blossom Temple". At the end of this final, we see that the fire of the Lu family, which has been burning for 20 years, and the grievances and grievances caused by this fire, are completely ended in this soft, relieved and even crazy poem:
Apricot blossom day on apricot blossom beach, apricot blossom fairy in apricot blossom sky.
The apricot blossom fairy planted the apricot tree, and then shook the apricot blossom dance.
起舞花开无人见，舞罢落花充赏钱。
and dancing and singing and scattered, not sad, not complaining, not lingering.
once laughed at the apricot blossom is not a national color, and regretted the wind and dust blowing the flowers.
The national color and fragrance are unparalleled in the world, and the wind and dust are suspicious.
If you compare the wind and dust to the color of the country, the world will laugh at me for being crazy.
If you compare madness to the world, you would rather be mad for 10,000 years.
A year to keep the apricot blossom day, ten thousand years to get the apricot blossom edge.
This body often comes to sit among the flowers, and is still sleeping under the flowers behind him.
However, the half-dead Song Chen can end his pain and resentment by generously dying at the hands of the screenwriter, and how should Tang Bohu, who continues to live, finish his long life? In that dark prison six years ago, he also hoped for the emperor's soft-heartedness, counted on the mercy of the officials, longed for the help of his peers, and looked forward to the shouts of the people...... However, what he saw was the cruelty of political struggle, the brutality of torture, the tactfulness of eagerness to protect oneself, the despicability of falling into the well, and the stupidity of gossiping...... Even those "enthusiastic fans" who came to ask for words and paintings disappeared without a trace one by one. This case of fraud in the scientific field where all beings are upside down made him completely see through it. Cruelly, he was only 29 years old that year.
As a result, Tang Bohu regarded the "dethronement of the servants" as a shame and resolutely refused to give in, and after returning home, the husband and wife fell out of harmony and divorced his wife. Three years later, his younger brother took the initiative to split up with him. Since then, Tang Bohu has lived a wandering life in the world, traveling to Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places. A few years later, he began to make a living by selling calligraphy and paintings, indulging in wine to entertain himself. At the age of 35, Tang Bohu established another business in Taohuawu, named "Taohuaan". Behind the seemingly chic life, there is actually a deep loneliness and sadness. During this period, Tang Bohu's artistic attainments entered a period of full outbreak, "Spring Mountain with Stream", "Mountain Road Pine Sound Map", "Riding a Donkey to Return", "Walking Creek Map" and so on, the picture is magnificent and magnificent, the lines are clean and smooth, and the poems, calligraphy and paintings are unique, allowing people to see the shadow of the Song people's paintings. And his calligraphy was deeply influenced by Zhao Mengfu, and chased Li Yong in the Tang Dynasty. In terms of calligraphy and painting achievements, people refer to Tang Bohu, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Qiu Ying as the "Four Families of Wumen" or "Four Families of the Ming Dynasty"; in terms of poetry and literature, later generations called Tang Bohu, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming, and Xu Zhenqing as "the Four Talents of Wuzhong". It can be seen that his comprehensive achievements in poetry, calligraphy and painting are all aspects.
In 1515, the 45-year-old Tang Bohu was hired by King Ning as a staff member at a high price, and he seemed to have ignited a flame again when he was already dead to his career. However, when he went to the Shogunate of King Ning in Nanchang, Jiangxi, he unexpectedly discovered the secret of King Ning's desire to rebel. Knowing the sinister nature of politics, he immediately decided to find an opportunity to escape. So, when King Ning sent an envoy to the post house to invite him, he deliberately pretended to be crazy and stupid with alcohol, talked nonsense, and even filled his mouth with filth. King Ning originally wanted to win over celebrities to show his virtue, but when he heard about Tang Bohu's stubborn behavior, he hurriedly let him leave. Sure enough, not long after, King Ning's rebellion was revealed, and the court sent Wang Yangming to pacify, and finally ended up in defeat and death. After this incident, Tang Bohu completely gave up on his career, and died in the difficult career of selling paintings on his own, just like his poignant poem "The Poor Man's Song":
Qingshan's white-haired old man is stubborn, and his pen and inkstone career is hard.
The people in the paddy fields on the lake don't want it, who will buy my painting Zhongshan.
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Calligraphy, painting, poetry and writing are always not working, and the occasional livelihood is in it.
Ken is afraid that the money is small, and Mr. Ji is poor all day.
Tomb of Tang Bohu
In 1522, Tang Bohu, who was bleak and sick, wrote a "Deathbed Poem" that predicted death: "Born in the sun, there is an end, and it doesn't matter if you die and return to the underworld." The sun and the earth are similar, only when drifting in a foreign land. On January 7, 1523, this peerless genius who had been struggling all his life died of illness at the age of 54 in the "Peach Blossom Dock" that he was proud of.