As soon as the two entered the capital, in addition to spending all day and drinking, the rest of the time, Xu Jing took Tang Bohu to visit celebrities, officials and invigilators. At the end of the examination, it was rumored in the entire capital that "Xu Jing, a wealthy man in Jiangyin, spent money to buy the exam questions", and even the entire Shuntian Mansion was known to everyone.

The imperial court ordered a strict investigation, and Tang Yin followed Xu Jing into prison. After checking and checking, in the end, Li Dongyang, a university scholar, conducted a retrial, but the evidence was insufficient, and the person was released from prison. Because Tang Yin and Xu Jingxiang won the test, this time they were demoted to small officials, don't think about being officials, and the two of them will be banned from the exam for life!

Xu Jing went home to study behind closed doors, and after the death of Ming Xiaozong, Xu Jing looked forward to the amnesty of the new Son of Heaven and hoped to participate in the imperial examination again. He said that when he recently read the "Historical Records", he found that Sima Qian was too great, and he also wanted to learn from Sima Qian to visit all parts of the country, and then go home to write books and speak. went north to Shuntianfu, in fact, he wanted to find out if he could still participate in the imperial examination. As a result, he was hateful and sick, and died in the capital at the age of thirty-five. His descendant Xu Xiake is really a super travel friend, with footprints in 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions today, and the opening day of "Xu Xiake's Travels" (May 19) is designated as China Tourism Day.

Let Tang Yin be a small official, he was deeply ashamed and resolutely refused to do it, and also went back to his hometown in Suzhou, his wife broke out, Tang Bohu looked at it, didn't let me go to bed, and wanted to make a move first, before being dumped, he dumped his wife first and divorced his wife. The first place in two provinces and one city was banned from the exam for life, and his wife also ran away, Tang Yin couldn't stand the neighbors' pointing and making irresponsible remarks, so he traveled to Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang.

Two years later, when he returned home with his sick body, his younger brother Tang applied to come to the doctor and treated him for more than half a year, before his condition improved, and he went to eat, drink and have fun again. There is no filial son in front of the bed for a long time, not to mention the younger brother, who is in better health, he doesn't know how to cherish it, in case he falls ill again, the younger brother will inevitably laugh at outsiders regardless of whether he asks, so the brothers split up and went their own way.

Tang Yin also let go of his pitiful self-esteem, sold calligraphy and paintings in Suzhou, and indulged in wine when he had money. He found that the money came too slowly for normal painting, and there were not so many elegant people who appreciated the spring and white snow. Liu Bei and Uncle Liu Huang can be considered, but there are not many literate people, and there are many who write yellow books. Thinking about it, it is better to draw a small yellow painting, as soon as the male and female nudes are drawn, they can be understood by literacy or non-literacy. In today's parlance, this is called in-depth analysis of target customers and accurate market positioning. During this period, Tang Bohu's Spring Palace Diagram quickly occupied the market, and its performance was eye-catching, and if it was listed, it would be at least a week's limit.

In the twenty-sixth episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", Xue Pan said: "When you mention the painting, I just remember." Yesterday I saw a spring palace from other people, and the painting was really good. There are many words on it, and I didn't look closely, (I look at it in vain, not a few literate!) Only look at the falling paragraph, is 'Geng Huang' painting. It's really good! Baoyu said: "I have seen some ancient and modern calligraphy and paintings, where is there a 'Genghuang'?" After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't feel that I was about to laugh, and ordered someone to take the pen, wrote two words in the palm of my hand, and asked Xue Pandao: "Do you really think it's 'Genghuang'?" Xue Pan said: "How can you see it untrue!" Baoyu threw his hand away and looked at him: "Don't be these two words?" When everyone looked at it, it turned out to be "Tang Yin".

Xue Pan doesn't know a few big characters, but he admires Tang Bohu's Spring Palace diagram, and Xue Pan's should be included in the management of key customers. It is said that Tang Yin's figure paintings have superb realistic skills, accurate images, and realistic charm, especially when painting women. You must know that Tang Bohu has many customers, a large market, and a lot of paintings! Nude painting, adding clothes is a lady picture, what lines are smooth, graceful body, it is really practiced by practice.

Most of the women wearing clothes in Tang Bohu's pen are lonely, the more famous Shanghai Museum's "Autumn Wind Fan Picture", on the stone side of Taihu Lake, there is a woman, holding a fan, with a good appearance, but there is a poignant feeling. Back then, Ban Jieyu was the most favored beauty of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Feiyan came to the palace, and Ban Jieyu was snubbed, just like a fan that was no longer used in autumn was forgotten by the emperor in the corner.

Tang Yin knew that most of his customers were accustomed to seeing the little yellow picture, and he couldn't understand it if he was elegant, so he inscribed a poem in the upper left corner of the painting: "Autumn comes to the fan collection, what is the beauty of the heavy sentimentality." Please look at the world in detail, most of them do not chase the heat and cold." Later, it was also used by Nalan Xingde as: "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan." ”

Tang Bohu, using the relationship between the autumn wind and the fan, sighed at the hot and cold world. And the fan that was put aside after the autumn breeze was also his own fate, a person who was abandoned by the imperial examination system, a person who painted small yellow pictures for a living, was originally spurned by the mainstream literati. And his group of customers, except for a big fool like Xue Pan, the dumb overlord, dare to say anything, most of them still buy quietly, after all, they can't get on the table, they like Tang Bohu's hobby of Spring Palace, and once they admit it publicly, they will be degraded. Teacher Guo Degang said that he sometimes watches kung fu movies in bed with a critical eye, which just amuses everyone.

The Palace Museum's collection of "Four Beauties" is also one of Tang Yin's masterpieces, depicting four beauties wearing Taoist robes and exquisite makeup, the four of them are not lonely together at first glance, but Tang Yin did not use any plants, rocks, buildings, and furniture to decorate, and also inscribed a poem in the upper right corner of the painting: "Lotus crown Taoist clothes, the Japanese king banquet crape myrtle." The flowers and willows do not know that people have gone, and they fight for green and scarlet every year. ”

It is said that there are many concubines and concubines of Wang Yan, the former lord of Shu, and where to spend the night every day is decided by flipping the brand, and he thinks that no matter how beautiful a woman is dressed up, she is still a layman, and she wants to wear a gorgeous Taoist robe, so that she looks like a cultivator, charming and moving, in current words, Wang Yan is a "uniform control", when the country was destroyed, he was still holding a beautiful Taoist priest to drink.

The four women in "Four Beauties", bathing and dressing, wearing lotus crowns, wearing fairy clothes, waiting for the king to turn over to his brand, the king has already had fun with other beauties in the Ziwei Palace, they don't know that every evening, they still gather together in groups of three or five, competing for beauty.

Tang Bohu thinks that he still has a chance for this lonely fan after the autumn wind, because summer will come again, and he is also waiting, but summer is too slow, "the flowers and willows don't know that people have gone, and they fight for green and scarlet every year", he feels sad and ridiculous for his stupid waiting. He built a peach blossom nunnery on the outskirts of Suzhou, while waiting, while comforting himself, the song "Peach Blossom Nunnery Song" is Tang Bohu's monologue indifferent to fame and fortune and longing for success:

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-drunk and half-awake day after day, the 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.

The emperor changed two or three, but there was no chance to be serious, and Tang Bohu waited for the third mutation in his life. He was favored by the emperor's uncle, King Ning, and hired as a staff member, this time with the help of nobles, he must seize the opportunity to turn over. Forty-four-year-old Tang Bohu suddenly became much younger, chatted with neighbors and friends, gave away things that he didn't need at home, and went to Nanchangning Wangfu to report in a beautiful manner. King Ning recruited a lot of people this time, Tang Bohu inquired with a few customers who had bought his small yellow paintings, and it turned out that King Ning was going to rebel.

Tang Bohu is not stupid, he will not do anything that will definitely die, and asked King Ning for sick leave, King Ning said that he was not sick and did not allow him to leave Nanchang for half a step. Tang Bohu also understood that he knew too many things, and it was a blessing that King Ning didn't kill him, it was easy to get on a thief ship and get off a thief ship, how could he let him out and talk nonsense? He went crazy, talked nonsense, beat himself, ate and drank urine, ran naked in the palace, chased women on the street naked, and King Ning saw that Tang Bohu was really sick, so he let him go.

saved his life, the little money he saved from selling Xiaohuang paintings was gone, and his reputation was even more stinky, so he returned to Peach Blossom Nunnery in disgrace. Tang Bohu thought about it, and when he was old, he had to redeem the dignity of a literati and play elegant. He took refuge in Buddhism, called himself "Liuru Jushi", rebuilt the Taohuawu with the help of Zhuzhishan, and said that he would not draw a picture of the Spring Palace when he starved to death, and also wrote "The Poor Man's Yin" to encourage himself, "I believe that I am innocent, and no one comes to buy fan poems." 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", the elegant one can't be sold, there is no money, and he is so poor that he hasn't cooked for three days, but he smiled in this poem and said: "The baby is not hungry!" ”

gritted his teeth and persisted for a year, under the recommendation of Zhu Zhishan and others, Tang Bohu was favored by his parents in his hometown, and he followed the two governors of the county before and after until he died of illness, during which he painted a lot of landscape paintings, which were collected by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Shanghai Museum, and the Nanjing Museum.

"Spring Mountain Companion" is one of Tang Bohu's masterpieces of this period, on a large stone, two villains sit cross-legged, one facing the front, the other with his back to the audience. The soil slopes and rocks, the dead wood and stumps surround the outer circle of the villain, and there are old trees and new shoots around the characters, full of spring warmth. The middle part is covered by a winding fence, and there is a small waterfall on the far right, which joins the stream. In the foreground, a large cascading mountain covers a small peak, with a majestic mountain in the front, a steep mountain in the back, and a looming mountain in the distance. The brushwork is clean and neat, the landscape is grand, the characters are small, "parasitic mayflies in the heaven and earth, a drop in the sea", there are too many people who have gone through the wind and waves, and they have to nest in a small corner to remember after success and failure.

19, Zhuzhishan

It is a fellow villager of Tang Bohu, called Zhu Yunming, looks peculiar, he laughs at himself for being ugly, and has six fingers on his right hand, so he is called Zhishan, and is a famous calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty.

In Stephen Chow's version of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", Mr. Chen Baixiang made a deep impression on the audience, and Zhu Zhishan played by him also painted "Chickens Eat Rice". It is true that no paintings have been handed down in the real Zhu Zhishan, but Zhu Zhishan has made many achievements in literature and calligraphy. In order to highlight Tang Bohu's image of a romantic and talented man, Zhu Zhishan became the "best friend".

In actual life, Zhu Zhishan is the eldest brother of the "Four Talents of Wuzhong", he is nine years older than Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming, and nineteen years older than Xu Zhenqing. Among the four, Xu Zhenqing was the youngest, who was admitted to the Jinshi in his early years, moved to Shuntianfu, and died early, and the relationship was average. There are three people left, Wen Zhengming is honest, Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan are open-minded and willful, and they are the best.

Tang Bohu was 12 years old and already famous in his hometown, Zhu Zhishan took the initiative to visit, gave poems to each other, and began to establish friendship. He accompanied Tang Bohu all his life, and in all kinds of changes, he has always been considerate and respected by Tang Bohu, and now there is a sentence of "domestic bosom friend Zhu Yunming" in the Tang Yin Memorial Hall in Suzhou.

Zhu Yunming is also a person with a bad fate, he won Xiucai at the age of nineteen, participated in five township examinations, took fifteen years before he was promoted, and failed to pass six times in the entrance examination. He saw that his son Zhu Xu had been admitted to the Jinshi, so he took the examination for the seventh time, but he had not yet been admitted. He gave up the idea of the imperial examination and elected officials as a lifter. In the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), he became the magistrate of Xingning County, Guangdong, and in the second year, Tang Bohu returned to his hometown from Nanchang Ning Palace, and he also funded to help Tang Bohu repair the house and introduce work to Tang Bohu. In the first year of Jiajing (1522), Zhu Zhishan was promoted to the general judgment of Tianfu, and soon returned to his hometown after illness.

Zhu Zhishan did not go well in the imperial examination, indulged in dissoluteness, and Tang Bohu also accompanied him. It was once recorded that the two dressed up as beggars and sang in the rain, and when they got a reward, they got drunk in the green building. There is also a record that in the summer of a certain year, Tang Bohu visited Zhu Zhishan and saw Zhu Zhishan drunk, naked and splashing ink and writing big characters, perhaps imitating Liu Ling we talked about in previous episodes, heaven and earth are his home, and the house is underwear, Tang Bohu came to his underwear.

Zhu Zhishan wrote countless epitaphs for others in his life, and wrote the most attentive for his sworn friend Tang Bohu, which is an important basis for scholars to study Tang Bohu's life. In the fourth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1525), Zhu Zhishan was 65 years old, retired for more than two years, saw a doctor and took medicine, and lived in poverty. He was naturally arrogant and unwilling to accept alms, so Wen Zhengming's son had no choice but to set up high-quality paper and ink in the study and invited Zhu Zhishan to leave calligraphy. Zhu Zhishan was full of wine and food, and wrote "Nineteen Ancient Poems" on the line, which was wonderful, and Wen Zhengming's son successfully gave him an objective amount of "pen money".

Li Guinian, Huang Wan, and Jing Xinmo, who were born of both good and evil

[Text: Those who make male and female couples live with this spirit cannot become benevolent gentlemen at the top, and cannot be evil at the bottom. Placed among tens of thousands of people, its smart and handsome spirit is above tens of thousands of people, and its evil and inhumane state is below tens of thousands of people. If you are born in a rich and noble family, you are infatuated, if you are born in a poor family of poetry and books, you are a master of Yishi, even if you are occasionally born in the cold door of Bo Zuo, you can never be a pawn and a servant, and you are willing to be driven and controlled by mediocrity. Such as the previous generations of Xu You, Tao Qian, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Liu Ling, Wang Xie Er, Gu Hutou, Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, Liu Tingzhi, Wen Feiqing, Minan Gong, Shi Manqing, Liu Qiqing, Qin Shaoyou, Ni Yunlin, Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, and then Li Guinian, Huang Wan Chuò, Jing Xinmo, Zhuo Wenjun, Hongfu, Xue Tao, Cui Ying, Chaoyun and others. This is the same place, and so are the people. This "change of place is the same person", that is, in the case of righteousness and evil fighting each other, a type of person born, this kind of person has both righteousness and evil, although their times are different, their experiences are different, and their opportunities are different, but these people's temperament is the same, that is, the two endowments of good and evil.

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