He was the most tragic genius of the Ming Dynasty, his family was ruined, his career was ruined, he was romantic, but he fell all his life, and finally died of depression - Tang Yin "Tang Bohu", one of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River. Wrote the immortal poem "Song of the Peach Blossom Temple"
Tang Bohu, a 30-year-old Jiangnan genius, was suspected of fraud in the imperial examination and was imprisoned.
Jin Yiwei tortured to extract a confession, and in the end, Tang Bohu was sentenced to be banned from entering the office for life. His wife also parted ways with him.
In the movie, he is suave and suave, and the jade tree is in the wind, but in reality, he is a wandering wreckage and is stuck.
What kind of person is the real Tang Bohu? And what caused him to be so miserable?
Tang Yin, known as Liuru Jushi, was a famous painter, calligrapher and poet in the Ming Dynasty.
Because Tang Yin is the eldest in the family and was born in the Year of the Tiger, he is called Tang Bohu.
His father, Tang Guangde, was a businessman who ran a tavern.
In ancient society, there were hierarchies, scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants. Quotient is the last level.
His father was very far-sighted, and he knew that if he wanted to get rid of this class, the only way out was to study, so when Tang Bohu was young, he sent him to school.
With his talent and hard work, Tang Bohu won the first place in the Suzhou government examination at the age of 16 and entered the government school.
He also studied painting under the famous painter Zhou Chen, who was very smart and could understand everything.
During his studies, Tang Bohu met two friends, Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming, and the three of them and Xu Zhenqing were known as the four great talents of Jiangnan.
At the age of 18, Tang Bohu found the true love of his life, Xu, and married her.
At this time, Tang Bohu had a successful career, a happy family, and a thriving scene.
However, accidents always come unexpectedly.
After Tang Bohu was 24 years old, he didn't know what bad luck he had, and he became more and more miserable day by day.
1. My father died, and my mother died soon after due to excessive grief.
2. Subsequently, his wife died of dystocia, his son died just three days after birth, and his sister also fell ill and died.
In just one year, he was the only one left in Tang Bohu's lively home, and the successive blows made Tang Bohu turn white overnight, and he borrowed alcohol every day to kill his sorrows, trying to numb himself in this way.
His friend Zhu Yunming couldn't bear to let him continue to be depressed, so he persuaded him to study hard and prepare for the scientific examination.
Hard work pays off, at the age of 27, Tang Bohu participated in the scientific examination, which should have been a chance to win, but Tang Bohu and his friend Zhang Ling's Su skills drank and let loose the wreckage, and the imperial history of the inspector Xuezheng was very disgusted with this behavior, so he was removed from the admission list.
Tang Bohu's name fell to Sun Mountain.
Just when Tang Bohu was about to start all over again, some Suzhou celebrities cherished talents and interceded for him, so Tang Bohu was recruited to participate in the township examination.
Tang Bohu did not live up to these Suzhou celebrities, and in the township examination of Suzhou Prefecture, he won the first place in the examination, and became famous in the south of the Yangtze River and became a child of other people's families.
But Tang Bohu did not restrain after the middle lift, but became more addicted to drinking and having fun in romantic places.
Friends Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming persuaded him one after another.
Zhu Yunming said to him: "Maxima can't just look at the surface, but also look at his quality, don't be arrogant for a while." ”
Wen Zhengming wrote to him and told him: "My father said that you are talented, but you are frivolous, I am afraid that you will not achieve anything."
Unexpectedly, Tang Bohu not only did not listen to his friend's persuasion, but replied to Wen Zhengming with bitter and mean words, the content of the letter was: "I was born like this, if you don't like me, then don't make friends with me."
Tang Bohu didn't appreciate it, and even broke off relations with Wen Zhengming.
As the saying goes, people are crazy and woeful, and this sentence was fulfilled in Tang Bohu.
In the winter of the same year, Tang Bohu happily packed his luggage and went to Beijing to take the exam.
With Tang Bohu's ability, what awaits him will be a splendid future, but fate has made him meet a person who ruined his life, this person is called "Xu Jing", and like Tang Bohu, he also entered Beijing to take the exam.
Xu Jing's family is very rich, Xu Jing is a proper rich second generation, and he is also a fan of Tang Bohu.
Xu Jing expressed his willingness to reimburse Tang Bohu for all the expenses on the road, just to be able to walk with his idol.
Such a good thing, of course Tang Bohu agreed, and the two of them went all the way to the capital happily.
After entering the city, there was still some time before the start of the exam, and the two of them began to go about their own business, and it was from here that things began to go wrong.
Walking into the examination room with confidence, he walked out of the examination room triumphantly, and as soon as he finished the exam, Tang Bohu began to prepare for the store exam, because a question in the exam paper made him very confident that he could be admitted to the Jinshi.
Not long after, a bad news came, Tang Bohu fell off the list.
Before Tang Bohu could react, he had already been put in a prison cell.
The dream of the title of the gold list has not yet woken up, but he was suddenly beaten into a prisoner with a stick, and he didn't understand what was going on even if he wanted to break his head.
Tang Bohu didn't know that his fellow inmates, Xu Jing and Cheng Minzheng, were imprisoned on charges of conspiracy to cheat.
The tragedy of Tang Bohu's life began here, and the fuse was the question in the exam paper.
In this year's exam, the examiner came up with a very difficult question, and it is said that almost all the candidates failed to find the source of the question that year, and some people had to hand in blank papers, and only two papers wrote perfect answers.
One of these two volumes is Tang Bohu's, and the other is Xu Jing's.
The chief examiner, Cheng Minzheng, said on the spot that he would select the Huiyuan of this scientific examination among these two candidates.
There doesn't seem to be a problem here, and it's a skill to be able to answer.
So what exactly is the problem?
The problem lies in Tang Bohu's mouth, Tang Bohu attended the banquet after the exam, and everyone at the banquet was discussing who could win the Huiyuan.
Tang Bohu may have been too happy, he drank a little too much, and he was praised for two more sentences, and the old problem of being crazy was committed again, and he said confidently: "Don't fight, this time the Huiyuan must be me." "Everyone at the banquet heard it, some didn't care, and many people took it to heart.
It was this sentence that ruined Tang Bohu's life, and this sentence appeared at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
The location is the capital, not Wu County. The object of his speech is not his friend, but his opponent, which will inevitably attract jealousy.
What's more, when he said this, the results had not yet come out, and the admission rate of Jinshi was already low, even if he was full of poetry and talent, he didn't dare to say that he would definitely be able to get in, and he still took the first place in the exam.
Is Tang Bohu overconfident, or is there some other ulterior secret?
Soon someone made a small report to the government, and the examiners did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported Li Dongyang.
Li Dongyang had already estimated the seriousness of this matter at that time and immediately reported it to His Majesty the Emperor.
Zhu Youzhu immediately ordered to check the test papers, and the facts were as rumored, Tang Bohu was indeed the best candidate for Jinke Huiyuan, and the person who selected Tang Bohu was Cheng Minzheng, and in this way, the three of them were arrested on charges of cheating.
After investigation, the truth of the matter surfaced, Xu Jing asked Cheng Minzheng's servant to buy exam questions, although Cheng Minzheng did not know, but Cheng Minzheng was also responsible.
And Tang Bohu is close to Xu Jing, how can he guarantee that Xu Jing did not tell him the question, so Tang Bohu also became one of them.
And so the case ended.
Cheng Minzheng, a good third-grade officer, was inexplicably involved in it, and was forced to retire home with a pension, and died soon after returning home under the pressure of this black cauldron.
Tang Bohu and Xu Jing were banned from the examination for life and exiled as small officials, Xu Jing felt that it didn't matter, just go home and inherit the family property.
And the blow Tang Bohu suffered was devastating, and he originally wanted to turn over by studying, but now it seems hopeless.
He was deeply ashamed of that little official, and resolutely did not go to work, and returned to his hometown in Jiangsu, where the villagers who used to greet him with smiling faces now looked at him with blank eyes, and his second wife felt that his career was ruined and could not give her a good life, and divorced him.
In the face of the cruel reality, Tang Bohu was completely desperate.
He has lost his qualifications to be an official, so what's the point of studying?
From then on, he no longer believed in the words of the sages, nor did he study hard.
No dreams, no pursuits, just want to be drunk and dream of death.
He began to indulge in wine all day long, wandering around the brothels, large and small, and relying on his talent to charm a group of dusty women.
At the beginning, there is still some money, but no matter how much money you have, you will run out one day, and if you don't have money, you can't finish it, and if you don't play life, you won't have fun.
Tang Bohu could only draw a picture of the Spring Palace and sell it for money, and the money from the sale bought a few taels of wine.
Although Tang Bohu was very depressed at this time, it can be seen from his paintings that he still wanted to realize his ambitions through fame.
20 years have passed, Tang Bohu is already in his 40s, and finally he waited for an opportunity, and Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, spent a lot of money to invite him to the palace as a staff member.
Tang Bohu thought that he had finally met Bole, and immediately went happily, but when he went to take a look, he found a major secret, King Ning was going to rebel.
Although Tang Bohu is wandering, he is very smart at a critical time, he knows that this is a matter of losing his head, he wants to leave, but after reading so many secrets, I am afraid that he can only come in vertically and go out horizontally.
In order to save his life, he came up with a trick, which was to pretend to be crazy.
It's not enough to simply pretend to be crazy, he came up with an upgraded version of "Naked Run" that pretends to be crazy.
He shouted naked in the street, I am King Ning's honored guest.
also molested women from good families, making the entire Nanchang City unpeaceful, many people came out to see the excitement, Zhu Chenhao's face was lost, he was angry and kicked Tang Bohu out of the house.
Soon, King Ning's rebellion failed, and all the people involved were killed.
Give you hope, and then give you despair, there is nothing more desperate in the world than this.
Since then, Tang Bohu has completely degenerated, he has nowhere to go, and his friends can only crowdfund him to buy a very dilapidated house outside the city, and he gave this house a nice name "Peach Blossom Nunnery".
Here, he wrote the immortal poem "Song of the Peach Blossom Temple"
Peach blossom nunnery in Peach Blossom Dock, peach blossom fairy under Peach Blossom Nunnery.
The peach blossom fairy planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money.
When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you are drunk, you come to sleep with the flowers.
Half-awake and half-drunk, day after day, flowers fall and bloom year after year.
I hope that the old man will die in the wine room, and he will not bow in front of the carriage and horse.
The car dust and horses are full of fun for the rich, and the wine cup is rich in flowers.
If you compare the rich with the poor, one on the flat earth and the other in the sky.
If the poor are compared to chariots and horses, he has to drive me to be idle.
Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it.
I don't see the tomb of Wuling heroes, and there are no flowers and no wine hoeing fields.
He lived here in despair, often without food for several days.
It was at this time that he ushered in the peak period of painting, and his works were his only spiritual sustenance.
Such days passed day by day, in the winter of the second year of Jiajing, 53-year-old Tang Bohu had been sick for a long time, on a snowy night, Tang Bohu struggled to get up, he looked out the window, thinking that he might not be able to see the peach blossoms of the second year, so he wrote his own masterpiece.
The meaning of the content of the masterpiece is: "The yang world and the underworld are the same, the world is big, but there is no place for me"
Soon he left the event that often played a fatal joke on him.
After his death, he had no money to buy a tombstone, so his friends crowdfunded him to buy him a tombstone, which was written on the most proud title of Tang Bohu's life - "Tang Jieyuan's Tomb".
Until his death, Tang Bohu still did not let go of his thoughts about fame in his heart.
God gave him a talent, but it also played countless jokes on him.
With the death of his family members and the destruction of his career, Tang Bohu's life was bumpy, his life was poor, and he even felt that the world was hot and cold, and finally died of depression.
Tang Bohu lived his miserable life like this.
This is the real Tang Bohu in history, with no family property, no grace, no spring breeze, no confidante, not even a decent home, and just endless bad luck and sorrow.
