Tang Bohu's life is full of drama, and it can be said that he has tasted the ups and downs of the world. became famous in his youth, he was full of spirit in his youth, he experienced ups and downs in middle age, and he was desolate and poor in his later years.
Tang Yin, the word Bohu, the number six such as layman, the master of the peach blossom nunnery, the escape of the Zen immortal, the Lu State Tang Sheng, etc., the south of the Zhili Suzhou Prefecture Wu County, the Ming Dynasty painter, writer. He is known as one of the four talents of Wuzhong. Together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Qiu Ying, they are called the "Four Families of the Ming Dynasty" or the "Four Families of Wumen".
On the fourth day of the second month of the sixth year of Chenghua (1470), Tang Bohu was born in a wealthy family in Suzhou, and was bright and studious since childhood.
At the age of 16, he took the Xiucai exam and won the first place, which shocked the whole city of Suzhou. At the age of 18, he married Xu Tingrui's second daughter Xu, and lived happily after marriage, and soon Xu gave birth to a son for Tang Bohu. However, at the age of 24, his family suffered a series of misfortunes, and his parents, wife, sister, and son died in the past two years, and the family's fortune also plummeted. Fortunately, under the persuasion of his friend Zhu Yunming, he did not give up on himself. After several years of hard reading poetry and books, at the age of 28, he participated in the public examination of Yingtianfu and won the first place "Xie Yuan".
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), the 29-year-old Tang Bohu went to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination.
The examiners of the 12th year of Hongzhi are Cheng Minzheng and Li Dongyang, both of whom are people who have read poetry and books, so the questions of this year's examination are particularly difficult. Except for Tang Bohu and another person named Xu Jing, the other candidates had difficulty answering the exam questions. Cheng Minzheng, the examiner who saw the test papers, recognized at a glance that these were the exam papers of the two of them, and blurted out: "These two test papers must be Tang Yin and Xu Jing's." In the eyes of others, this is like an internal decision, and soon the city is full of gossip, and it is rumored that Xu Jing got the exam questions through bribery. Hu Ke gave Shi Huachang a chance to make credit, and immediately asked Cheng Minzheng, one of the examiners.
This incident immediately alarmed the emperor, although Xu Jing and Tang Bohu were not admitted, but in order to calm the turmoil, Emperor Hongzhi still ordered a thorough investigation. From March to June, there is actually no final conclusion. The chief examiner, Cheng Minzheng, died of carbuncle poison four days after being released from prison. Hua Chang was assigned to Nanjing to raise horses, Tang Bohu and Xu Jing were removed from the official status and assigned to Zhejiang as a small official, and they were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination from then on.
The defendants and plaintiffs in this incident were all punished, and the most innocent Tang Bohu became the biggest victim of this incident.
After Tang Bohu was disappointed in his career, he began to love landscapes, entertained himself with poetry and painting, and became a famous painter.
When he was 44 years old, Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, invited him to go to Nanchang to play for him, and Tang Bohu went there in a huff. When I arrived in Nanchang, I found that King Ning was secretly ambitious and wanted to plot against him. He sensed the danger and couldn't run away, but King Ning wouldn't let him go anyway. In desperation, Tang Bohu had no choice but to pretend to be crazy and stupid, running naked on the street every day, and King Ning finally decided to let him go home. Later, King Ning really reversed and ran into Wang Yangming, and it took only 43 days from the incident to the failure. History of the Ming Dynasty · Biography · Volume One Hundred and Seventy-Four": Ning Wang Chenhao hired him with a thick coin, and he observed that he had different ambitions, feigned madness and made wine, revealing his ugliness. Chen Hao couldn't be embarrassed and let it go. Building a room peach blossom dock, drinking it like a guest day, died at the age of fifty-four.
Tang Bohu, who survived, returned to his hometown to start his later life, relying on selling paintings and helping friends to make a living, and died of illness at the age of 54.
Tang Bohu's life was bumpy, but his talent and works are remembered by future generations.