Wang Shouren closed his eyes, as if he was wandering in the author's painting, and only opened his eyes after a while and said: "Let's start with the paragraph of this painting, this is a four-character paragraph, and the above four words are 'Peach Blossom Nunnery Master'"

"What a strange name, who is this 'Peach Blossom Nunnery Master'?" Li Tianbao asked.

Wang Shouren said with a smile: "The master of the Peach Blossom Nunnery is the nickname of a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Let's talk about the 'names' of the ancients and today, in fact, modern people can no longer use the word 'name', because modern people only have 'names' and no 'words'. So what we mean by 'name' is really just a person's name.

However, in ancient times, most people, especially those of the children of eunuchs and intellectuals, were both famous and literate, and some of them also had "numbers". There is no way to verify when the wind of the font name originated, but judging from the literature, there were names such as 'Guiguzi' in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which can be regarded as the earliest alias of the ancients.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Tao Yuanming called himself 'Mr. Wuliu', more people joined in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and gave themselves a name, the Tang and Song dynasties formed a general atmosphere, and the Ming and Qing dynasties reached their peak, not only everyone has a number, but also a person can give a lot of numbers, such as the Ming Dynasty painter Chen Hongyuan has 'Lao Lian', 'Lao Chi', 'Regret Chi', 'Yunmen Monk' four numbers.

Modern people's numbers are gradually replaced by pen names, so when we look at the calligraphy and painting, we must know the font size of the ancient great painters, because sometimes they sometimes use their names, and sometimes they use words or numbers. ”

Although Li Tianbao learned something after hearing this, he was most concerned about who painted this painting, because this point was directly related to the value of the painting scroll, so Li Tianbao asked again: "Then who is this 'Peach Blossom Nunnery Master'?" ”

Wang Shouren did not answer Li Tianbao directly, but talked about other things to himself, but it seems that it is also directly related to this painting.

"During the Ming Dynasty, there was a young talent who changed his 'character' to 'Ziwei'. There are even more other nicknames, such as 'Liuru Jushi', 'Lu Guo Tang Sheng', 'Escape Zen Immortal History', etc., including this 'Peach Blossom Nunnery Master'. ”

When Li Tianbao heard that he was finally about to get to the point, he stretched his neck and listened carefully to Wang Shouren as he continued: "This person's ancestral home is Yichang, so the inscription of his paintings often uses his original hometown 'Jinchang Tang Yin'. The 'Peach Blossom Temple' in this painting is indeed rarely used. ”

Li Tianbao couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard the word 'Tang Yin', and couldn't help but say: "The 'Tang Yin' you said is Tang Bohu?" ”

After hearing this, Wang Shouren twisted his hand and said: "You kid is also a dry antique, if you don't even know who 'Tang Yin' is, it will be ridiculous." ”

Li Tianbao couldn't help but be surprised in his heart after hearing this, the name of "Tang Yin" is estimated to be a Chinese, it is the head of the four great talents of the Ming Dynasty, the merry "Tang Bohu"!

"Could it be that this painting is a painting of 'Tang Bohu'?" As soon as Li Tianbao said it, he felt that it was wrong, Wang Shouren said that this 'Peach Blossom Nunnery Master' was changed by Tang Yin later, but the 'Pixiu Eye' prompted him to create it when he was a teenager, and it was obvious that there was a big contradiction here. It is obviously impossible to ask Wang Shouren directly, and now he can only ask him about Tang Yin's life, so that this mystery may be solved.

"Old man, can you tell me about Tang Yin?"

Wang Shouren showed a relieved smile and said, "Even if you don't ask, I can't hold it back!" ”

"When it comes to Tang Yin, people will think of the story of Tang Bohu ordering autumn fragrance in "Three Laughs", and the comedy master 'Zhou Xingxing' shows people a different Tang Bohu. But those were just transplanted to him by later generations from some other storytelling. The reason why the story is fictional and transplanted to Tang Bohu is naturally because of his romantic surname and famous calligraphy and paintings, but Tang Yin and Tang Bohu in real life are not like this. ”

Wang Shouren stopped and lit a cigarette and continued: "We who engage in antiques cannot rely on hearsay in film and television dramas, but really know an ancient person based on historical materials, so as to analyze his works of art. According to the record of Tang Bohu's "Tang Bohu's Epitaph" by Tang Yin's friend Zhu Yunming, we learned that Tang Bohu's father was a wealthy businessman of the Jiangnan generation, but he always believed that it was better to be an official than studying, of course, this was related to the social background of the ancient emphasis on literature and light business.

Tang's father always felt that his business social status was low, so he had high expectations for his son, hoping that his son would study to change his career. Tang Yin has been smart and clever since he was a child, so his father was pleased to say that 'this son will become famous'. However, Tang Bohu's naughty, informal, and debauched behavior since he was a child is rare among ordinary scholars, which also made Tang's father feel a little worried, and later it turned out that Tang's father's worries were really far-sighted.

However, Tang Yin was extremely smart, and when he took the Xiucai exam at the age of sixteen, he became a student member of the government with the result of 'the first place in the middle of the school'. This is also unique in the Tang family, which has been in business for several generations, so at that time, Tang Yin could be said to be a glorious ancestor, and was regarded as a model by the scholars in the city at that time.

Before the age of twenty-five, Tang Yin lived a carefree life of reading, playing, reciting poetry and painting. Who knew that Ming Xiaozong suddenly fell from the sky in the tenth year, and great changes occurred in the family. First, his cousin died of illness, then his mother died, and soon his sister committed suicide at her in-law's house. Within a year, only the two Tang Yin brothers were left in the family of seven, and Tang Yin, who was less than 20 years old, had gray hair and was quite mentally stimulated. Later, after the persuasion of his friend Zhu Yunming, he regained his spirit and immersed himself in hard study, preparing to participate in the township examination of Ying Tianfu. ”

Hearing this, Li Tianbao realized that Tang Yin in the blue mist prompt may be at his most chic and dignified before the age of twenty-five. For soon after, his hair turned gray.

In that year's township examination, the article written by Tang Yin was valued by the examiner Liang "savings" at a glance because of its elegant rhetoric and fireworks at the bottom of the pen, and Tang Yin, who was only 29 years old, ranked first in the township examination that year (Xie Yuan).

Tang Yin was happy and relieved by this, but if Tang Yin was a cautious person, he should have rushed to the capital as soon as possible after the Tianfu scientific examination to study and prepare for the final Beijing examination. But Tang Yin was born to be an unruly person who was unwilling to be lonely, and it was Jiang Ming's hugely rich son 'Xu Jing' who went to the capital to take the exam, and the two of them brought six beauties to the Beijing entrance examination, which shows how romantic they are.

After entering Beijing, Tang Yin has also been living an uninhibited and luxurious life of fine clothes and jade food, which is of course also jealous of other candidates for the exam, which has caused a certain amount of criticism in the government and the opposition.

The examiners of the exam that year were two well-educated people, and the test questions were very cold, and many students could not answer them. There were only two test papers, which were not only appropriately answered, but also elegantly written, and one of the examiners blurted out happily, 'The two test papers must be Tang Yin and Xu Jing's. This sentence was immediately spread out of the field by those present.

Because Tang Yin and Xu Jing had visited the examiner many times, they seized the handle of the people who usually hated him, and gave Emperor Xiaozong a recital, impeaching the examiner, saying that he leaked the test questions to Tang Yin and Xu Jing, students from Jiangnan.

Emperor Xiaozong was very angry when he saw it, and immediately ordered the examiner to be pressed into Dali Temple with Tang Yin Xu Jing. After the examiner on the other side read the test paper, he realized that the examiner was not praising Tang Yin and Xu Jing's papers.

But after Xu Jing was imprisoned, he couldn't stand the torture and confessed that he had used a piece of gold to buy the examiner's personal entourage, stealing the test questions and leaking them to Tang Yin. At this time, Tang Yin saw that Xu Jing had already drawn a charge, and he had nothing to say. Later, the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Officials jointly interrogated, and Xu Jingcai refuted the original confession, saying that it was tortured into a trick.

The examiner died of depression shortly after his release from prison. After Tang Yin was released from prison, the Ministry of Rites asked him to go to a place in Jiangnan to take up a post as a small official. At this time, Tang Yin's life was already extremely difficult, and his friends persuaded him to go to Zhejiang for the time being, but Tang Yin thought that the soldiers could be killed and not humiliated, so he resolutely refused.

There are many records in the literature about this meeting, but there are different opinions, and there is no way to verify it. But what is certain is that this was actually a struggle between the henchmen in the imperial court at that time. This turmoil made Tang Yin physically and mentally exhausted, and he never wanted to set foot in officialdom again.

Later, Tang Yin began to travel and traveled to many places, and he was deeply impressed by the magnificent scenery of the great rivers and mountains, which also had a profound impact on his later paintings.

This kind of cruising life made Tang Yin, who was already financially unbalanced, realize that the cyst was shy and could only return home. But seeing that the family's property had been sold by his wife, and his wife left him after the husband and wife quarreled, Tang Yin immediately fell seriously ill.

In order to make a living, Tang Yin began to sell paintings for a living, and was very satisfied with the way he lived by selling paintings for a living, and also carved a seal of "the first genius in Jiangnan". He also wrote in one of his poems: "If you don't practice Jindan, you can't sit in meditation, and if you don't work for businessmen, you don't plow the fields." Idle to write a vice Danqing to sell, do not make the world make evil money. ”

When Tang Yin was thirty-six years old, he chose Taohuawu in the north of the city and built an elegant and idle house. Taohuawu was originally the villa of Zhang Zhuang Jian of the Song Dynasty, but after many years of vicissitudes, it has long been a ruin, but the scenery here is still the same, a trickle, a few peach willow trees, and there is also a unique flavor.

However, the good times did not last long, when Tang Yin was forty-five years old, King Ning "Zhu Chenhao" sent people to recruit talents here, Tang Yin was not willing to be mediocre at this time, so he went to defect, and was appreciated by King Ning.

After a while, Tang Yin found out that King Ning was oppressing the people and fish and meat in the local area, and he was preparing to plot a rebellion. At this time, Tang Yin realized that he had made a big mistake and was already in the den of the tiger and wolf. But under the circumstances at that time, Tang Yin didn't dare to resign, and after thinking about it, he could only pretend to be crazy and stupid.

After deceiving Queen Ning, Tang Yin returned home and continued his old life. Later, King Ning's rebellion was quelled by the imperial court, and although Tang Yin escaped, he still caused a lot of trouble because of his stay at King Ning's place. This turmoil made Tang Yin extremely depressed, and he turned to Buddhism, and called himself 'Liuru Jushi', and the autonomous square seal 'Escape Zen Immortal History';