Tang Bohu, a famous painter, calligrapher and poet of the Ming Dynasty, in the film and television drama, he is charming, talented, surrounded by beautiful women, and after taking nine wives, he also lit autumn incense, which can be described as a winner in life. Zhou Xingchi's version of Tang Bohu is even more classic. But the real Tang Bohu in history is a completely tragic figure, which is completely the opposite of this version.
Tang Bohu was not born in Shuxiang Mendi, his father Tang Guangde was just an ordinary businessman who ran a tavern in Suzhou, so Tang Bohu did not lack food and clothing since he was a child.
Born in a merchant's family, but Tang Bohu was not the material for business, but he never forgot from childhood, smart and clever, so Tang Guangde threw him into a private school to study, hoping that he would study and get a meritorious name, and honor his ancestors. Tang Bohu also did not live up to Tang Guangde's hopes, and when he was 16 years old, he passed the Xiucai examination, and since then Tang Bohu has become famous. At the age of 19, he took the second daughter of Xiucai Xu Tingrui, and then called the four talents of Jiangnan with Xu Zhenqing, Zhu Zhishan, and Wen Zhengming, it can be said that Tang Bohu at this time had academic success and a happy family, which was the time when he was proud of his life.
And this is also the highest time in Tang Bohu's life, a few years later, when Tang Bohu was 25 years old, his father died, his mother died because of excessive grief, and then his sister also died of illness, and in the same year, his wife also died of difficult childbirth, and the child also died prematurely.
Faced with the successive deaths of his loved ones and the successive blows, Tang Bohu used wine to paralyze himself all day long. His friends could not bear to see it, so they advised him to study well and take the meritorious examination, so as to comfort the spirit of his relatives in heaven. So Tang Bohu really closed the door to thank guests, read a lot of books, and in the second year of the township examination, that is, in the year when he was 29 years old, he took the township examination in one fell swoop, which is equivalent to the first place in the current Jiangsu regional examination.
Then Tang Bohu continued to go to Beijing to catch the exam, but his life fell into a trough in the process of preparing for the examination, and Tang Bohu was involved in the leak of the scientific examination questions at that time. The emperor was furious, and Tang Bohu was banned for life. In other words, in the current sense, it is equivalent to never entering the system and becoming a staff. And Tang Bohu grew up in a favorable environment, cultivated a proud personality, and read poetry and books, but now not only can not become an official but also lost his family foundation, which is the most fatal blow to Tang Bohu, who is famous in the south of the Jiangsu Province.
What is even more tragic is that after Tang Bohu returned to his hometown in Suzhou, he once again encountered the change of his wife and daughter, and Tang Bohu's successor He Shi also left him. Faced with the cruel reality of being alone, he began to borrow wine to dispel his sorrows and make a living selling paintings, which slowly led to the Tang Bohu we are familiar with. Although Tang Bohu's life was miserable, he was indeed a talent in history, and his poetry and painting can be described as three masterpieces, especially painting, whether it is people, flowers and birds, landscapes, he is all good at it.
At the age of 40, he thought he had ushered in a turning point in his life — the emperor's uncle, King Ning, had spent a lot of money to hire Tang Bohu as an aide. As a result, as soon as Tang Bohu came to the Ning King's Mansion, he found that this was the King of Ning recruiting troops and horses, recruiting talents, and preparing for rebellion for nothing else. Although Tang Bohu was a wandering skeleton and arrogant, he still knew right from wrong, and once he was exposed, he might be involved in a head-killing disaster. So in order to quickly get out, Tang Bohu had to pretend to be crazy and stupid, eat and drink urine, and even run naked on the street to flirt with the women of the good family, and King Ning lost all his face and had to drive Tang Bohu out. Later, King Ning's rebellion failed, and many people were killed, but Tang Bohu escaped the disaster, and although Tang Bohu saved his life, he also stinked his reputation again.
He returned to Suzhou in frustration and lived in a very dilapidated house outside the city, and he also gave the broken house a very nice name, called Taohua'an. In the movie "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", Zhou Xingchi, who played Tang Bohu, recited the famous "Peach Blossom Anthem" - "Peach Blossom Ann in Peach Blossom Dock, Peach Blossom Immortal under Peach Blossom An." Peach blossom immortals plant peach trees, and then pick peach blossoms in exchange for wine money." At that time, when I watched it, I thought this poem was good, but in fact this poem was very tragic. In fact, he said that there was no money anymore, so he could only pick some peach blossoms for some wine money, and even had no money to eat, Tang Bohu said in a letter to his friend, "Three days without smoke and hunger."
"Others laugh at me for being too crazy, and I laugh at others who can't see through it" - When Tang Bohu's life reached a dead end, his poetry and painting achievements also reached its peak. Tang Bohu finally died of poverty. At the age of 53, he fell seriously ill and eventually died on a snowy night. After Tang Bohu died, his tombstones were donated to him by his friends.
As for "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", there is indeed a prototype in history, but this person is not the tang Bohu in history. According to legend, Qiu Xiang is indeed a real figure in history, living in the same period as Tang Bohu, but Qiu Xiang's age is 20 years older than Tang Bohu, qiu xiang is not a yahuan in Washington, but a famous prostitute who has fallen into the wind and dust, Qiu Xiang has indeed been ordered, but the person who ordered it is not Tang Bohu. (Image from the Internet)