Song of Peach Blossom Temple

Bohu of Tang Dynasty in Ming Dynasty

Peach Blossom Temple in Taohuawu, Peach Blossom Fairy under Peach Blossom Temple;

Peach Blossom Fairy planted peach trees , and picked peach blossoms to sell for wine money.

When you are sober, you just sit in front of the flowers, but when you are drunk, you come to sleep under the flowers;

Half awake and half drunk day after day, the flowers fall and bloom year after year.

I hope that I will die in old age while drinking wine, and I do not want to bow in front of the chariot and horse;

The chariot and horse are enough for the rich, and the wine-cup branches are for the poor.

If you compare the rich to the poor, one will be on the ground and the other will be in the sky;

If you compare the poor to the chariots and horses, he will have to drive and I will have nothing to do.

Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others because they can’t see through it;

There are no tombs of heroes from Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and fields being cultivated.

About the author

Tang Yin, Tang Bohu, was very talented, traveled to Wuyi, and wandered in Dongting; he was called a gifted scholar, was romantic, hid in Suzhou, and pretended to be crazy. The art of painting is passed on, and the reputation is famous. The solitary picture has a clear meaning; the picture of the sound of pine trees is majestic, and the pines and springs sing together.

Famous painters of the Ming Dynasty have always respected Tang Yin, Qiu Ying, Shen Zhou, and Wen Zhengming, and they are known as the "Four Wu Schools" in the world. Tang Yin, one of the "Four Great Masters of the Ming Dynasty", was known as the most talented man in Jiangnan in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. He is erudite and versatile, reciting poems and composing music, good at calligraphy and painting, and has experienced ups and downs. He is an outstanding painter in the history of Chinese painting. Tang Yin's courtesy name was Bohu, and his courtesy name was Ziwei. His name was Taohua Temple Master. He was born in Tang Dynasty in the state of Lu. He was an immortal who escaped from Zen. He was Jieyuan in Nanjing. He was the most talented man in the south of the Yangtze River. In his later years, he became a Buddhist and was nicknamed Liuyi layman. A native of Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province). He was born in the sixth year of Chenghua (1470) of Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty and died in the second year of Jiajing (1523) of Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty.

Tang Yin was born in a merchant family and had a relatively low status. Under the leadership of "showing relatives and promoting fame" in the world, he studied hard. At the age of 11, he had excellent literary talent and good handwriting. He was a scholar at the age of 16. He took part in the Nanjing Yingtian Township Examination at the age of 29 and won the first place "Jie Yuan". The following year, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and "fame and wealth" were just around the corner. Xu Jing, a large landowner in Jiangyin who was traveling with him to take the exam, secretly bribed the examiner's family boy to get the test questions in advance. When the incident was revealed, Tang Yin was implicated and imprisoned, tortured and humiliated. From then on, Tang Yin, who was highly talented and conceited, developed a strong aversion to the "rebellious" officialdom. His character and behavior are unruly. Tang Yin made friends with Zhang Ling, a "crazy student" from his hometown, and indulged in drinking without paying attention to his career. Later, under the advice of his friend Zhu Yunming, he started studying hard and determined to spend his whole life writing poetry, calligraphy and painting. After that, he traveled to Zhurong, Kuanglu, Tiantai and Wuyi famous mountains, and went boating on Dongting Lake and Pengchi, and then returned to Suzhou gloomily. In his later years, he believed in Buddhism and called himself Liuyi Jutu. He once wrote a poem to blame himself, saying that although a man is not famous, he should still be generous, so why should he imitate the prisoners of Chu? So he carved his own seal as "the most romantic and talented man in Jiangnan". After being hired by Nanchang Ning Wang Chenhao, he discovered that Ning Wang had rebellious intentions, so he pretended to be crazy and returned to Suzhou. From then on, he became dissolute and decadent in thought.

Tang Yin has a wild and unruly personality, and is unique in painting. His writing is elegant, smooth and meticulous, with a free and elegant rhythm. Most of his landscape paintings depict majestic and steep mountains and ridges, pavilions, creeks and bridges, and the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers at all times of the year. Some depict pavilions and gardens, and the leisurely lives of literati. The landscape and figure paintings are majestic in large paintings and clear and unrestrained in small paintings, with rich and diverse themes and appearances. Figure paintings mostly describe the lives and historical stories of ladies from ancient and modern times.

Notes:

Chariots and horses: refers to powerful people.

Intuit: Too.

Appreciation:

Tang Bohu, a talented man of his generation, was famous all over the world for his literary works. He laughed and cursed, and all of them became articles. Flowers fell and water flowed, and everything was natural. Those who regard chariots, horses, dignitaries as dust, and those who branch winegolds as celestial beings have their own pride. Whether you are crazy or crazy, you can sit alone among the flowers, drink and pour yourself, and you will have your own style.

The appreciation of this poem is still related to Tang Bohu’s personal background. In China's secular society, the name Tang Bohu is a household name. The image of Tang Bohu has always been based on the folk stereotype of being suave and unrestrained. The various versions of Tang Bohu stories mostly highlight his talent and arrogance, playing with the world. "Marriage", or the contemporary Stephen Chow movie "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance". What is passed down from generation to generation is the Tang Dynasty scholar's contempt for traditional morality and subversion of secular norms. What he did was very different from the values ????of mainstream society, and his The romantic affair is envied and talked about by the general public, and its subtleties are indeed thought-provoking.

For example, in the well-known "Song of Peach Blossom Temple", although Tang Bohu calls himself "the Peach Blossom Fairy in Peach Blossom Temple" in the poem, he shows a broad-minded mind of living in poverty and enjoying the Taoism, and a life state of leisurely poetry and wine. , but in the end he regards time as a measure of all human hopes and desires, and its ending still inevitably comes down to nothingness and an irresistible fate of life.

Tang Bohu wrote in "Bohu's Self-Praise": "I ask you who you are? You are me. I didn't recognize you, but you wanted to recognize me. Oh! I can't live without you. You are missing me. A hundred years later, without you, I will be gone." We might as well regard it as a dialogue between the soul and the body between the folk Tang Bohu and the real Tang Bohu.