This article takes you to appreciate the 12 representative works of Tang Bohu, one of the four great talents of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty.
Before appreciating it, let's first revisit the image of Tang Bohu in folk and literary history.
Folk image, the most well-known of course is the story of "Tang Bohu dotting autumn incense", most people know the name of Tang Bohu, but also because of this widely circulated folklore.
However, according to historical research, there were indeed Qiu Xiangqi people in history, and they did live in the middle of the Ming Dynasty with Tang Bohu. But the age of the two was not so coincidental, and Qiu Xiang was at least 20 years older than Tang Bohu.
In this way, even if Qiu Xiang is famous in Jinling, it is difficult for any "affair" to happen between her and Tang Bohu. You can imagine that a 20-year-old talent entered the Qinglou, but found that Hua Kui was a 40-year-old "Xu Niang and half old" old woman, and her heart should not be very happy.
The real Tang Bohu has not escaped the fate of the literati given by history. Since the song dynasty that gave preferential treatment to literati, the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the status of literati can be said to be inferior to that of a generation.
The Yuan Dynasty was ruled by a foreign nationality, the imperial examination system was abolished, and a large number of talented literati lost the opportunity to pursue their careers and turned to the people and understand the people, which led to the glory of the Yuan Qu.
The status of the literati in the Ming Dynasty was a little higher, but it was only a specific, high-ranking and powerful person who had the right to speak in the imperial court. Folk talents like Tang Bohu can only come from the folk and go back to the people. Not to mention the Qing Dynasty.
However, Tang Bohu was originally a cynical person, and did not care about this, and later sold paintings and wrote poems, which was enough to survive.
Live very clearly, live very clearly.
Let's look at the poem:
A cut of plum rain hit the pear blossom deep closed door
Look at the sky and look at the clouds, think of the king, sit also think of the king.
Tang Bohu's classic lyrics, a sentence "Line also thinks of Jun, sits also thinks of Jun" portrays the gentle feelings of the woman in the boudoir to the fullest. Every time I read this sentence, it seems to walk into the heart of a woman, and it is difficult to imagine how a big man can write so meticulously.
Peach Blossom Anthem
When drunk, he only sits in front of the flowers, and when he is drunk, he must spend the flowers to sleep.
Before the flowers, day after day, drunk and sober year after year.
The very famous "Peach Blossom Anthem" has also been compiled into the song by folk singer Chen Re in recent years, so that more modern people can hear the spirit of the poem.
Draw chickens
The red crown on the head does not need to be cut, and the snow white will go to the future.
In his lifetime, he did not dare to speak lightly, and told thousands of doors to open.
This one seems to have entered the language textbook, just 4 sentences, grasping the two characteristics of the chicken: one is the appearance, the head is red crowned, full of snow white; the other is the cry of the dawn, do not dare to cry easily in life, once the name is wrong, it will affect the lives of thousands of families.
It's a lot of fun to write.
Put the wine to the moon song
I don't board the Tianzi ship either, and I don't go to sleep in Chang'an.
There is a hut outside Gusu City, and the plum blossoms of ten thousand trees are full of moon.
This is a poem that pays tribute to Li Bai, writing about his similarities and differences with Li Bai. Tang Bohu did not want to be as sharp as Li Bai and show his talents in the court, but only wanted to build a hut outside Gusu City, guarding the beautiful wishes of thousands of plum blossoms and the moon.
Words
No alchemy, no sitting meditation, no cultivation for the merchants.
Idle to write and sell it in the mountains, and do not make the world make evil money.
The last two sentences of the poem became Guo Degang's mantra. Idle writing, painting and painting, earning innocent money.
Guo Degang rewrote it as "Father Jiangshan can tolerate me and not make the world make evil money", which is to thank the audience, and the inner feelings are still consistent with Tang Yin.
Beauty to the moon
The slanted bun is late at night, and the pear blossom wind is quiet and the birds are perched on the branches.
It is difficult to say the heart and people, and to say that the blue sky and the bright moon know.
The beauty sat alone and did not speak, because there was no suitable person in the world to tell her heart, so she had to silently speak to the blue sky and bright moon.
Naturally, it is also Tang Bohu's confession.
chrysanthemum
The three paths of the old garden spit out the bushes, and the night of xuan frost fell into the blue sky.
How many days have not returned to the guests, as far as the fence to see the autumn wind.
Tang Bohu mostly looks at people with cynicism, but this song rarely brings true feelings.
In general, people can't withstand the pain of homesickness in different places.
Dying poems
Born in the Yang Realm, there is a scattering field, and it is not bad to die and return to the earthly house.
The Yang Dynasty is similar, only when drifting in a foreign land.
In the dying poem, people say that "man will die, and his words are good." Tang Bohu was not good enough, still cynical, still open-minded and transparent.
Lantern Festival
There is no light without a moon that does not entertain people, and there is no light in the moon that is not a spring.
Spring to the human world is like jade, and the lamp burns the moon and the next month is like silver.
A poem about the Lantern Festival captures the interrelationship between the lamp and the moonlight, which is interesting.
Seven things to do when you open the door
Chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, generally in other people's homes.
There is nothing wrong with the cold weather in the twilight, and the plum blossoms are seen in the Bamboo Temple.
In the poem, it is written that the neighbors have to face the troubles of chai rice oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea every day, but they are clean and have nothing to do, sitting idly in the temple to enjoy the plum blossoms.
A kind of literati's purity and self-reliance arise spontaneously.
I love Autumn Fragrance
I paint the blue river leisurely, love the evening pavilion on the maple leaf sorrow.
The autumn moon dissolves in the Buddhist temple, and the cigarettes circle the scripture building.
Interesting Tibetan head poem, but since the love affair with Qiu Xiang is a folk fabrication, this poem is probably also written by posterity.
Cautionary tales
All things are sought by heaven, and the descendants are blessed and prosperous.
Drink three glasses of wine and rest, and you can receive it with a smooth sail.
What day has happened to the troubles, and what time has it been for everyone to be harmed?
It is advisable for the wronged family to solve the knot and look back at the back of each other.
The last one is one of Tang Bohu's several "Warnings".
In this series of poems, Tang Bohu does not show people with cynical talents, but like an old man who has experienced vicissitudes, recording his feelings about life with a gentle and meticulous tone, hoping to help future generations.
The last sentence, "It is not appropriate to solve the knot of the wrongdoers", is engraved in the bones of the nation and has become one of the problems that people need to think about when treating people and things.
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