The conceit of genius and obsession with spiritual life made Tang Yin a lofty teenager. He is just like Gui Youguang, a teenager who later saw the world on his spine porch. He doesn't seem to take the world seriously. Zhu Yunming, who is ten years older than Tang Yin, heard about the talent of young Tang Yin. When he came to visit, Tang Yin was at such an age. No wonder Zhu Yunming had to hit a wall many times. Zhu Yunming was born in a noble family. At that time, he was famous for advocating the expression of ancient literature. He condescended to visit, but Tang Yin ignored him. It is conceivable that the pride of Tang Yin. Later, perhaps moved by Zhu Yunming's sincerity or attracted by Zhu Yunming's reputation, Tang Yin finally reached out. One day, he suddenly sent two poems to Zhu Yunming, showing his pride. As an experiencer in his youth, Zhu Yunming understood the mood of young Tang Yin and advised Tang Yin to relax less in his poems. Everything turns high and fine, and it is unheard of that Huafeng can build a capital. However, the sky is extremely powerful, and there is nothing outside, so it is everything. Tang Yin is sensitive and conceited, and Zhu Yunming is generous. Their personalities were complementary, and a lifelong friendship began.
About twenty-one years after Chenghua, Tang Yin was admitted to Fu Xue, Suzhou with the first place, which attracted the attention of the world for the first time. However, Tang Yin is not only an unprofessional student in official school, but also a lawless scholar. Fortunately, one of Tang Yin's classmates is Zhang Ling, who is also a young genius from a citizen's family. He is extremely clever, quick-thinking, easy to make friends, likes drinking, is good at drawing characters and likes ancient literary expressions. He was appreciated by Zhu Yunming and Luo Zhimen. Tang Yin and he are like-minded, and soon they are irreconcilable. They often drink and play together and do a lot of ridiculous things. Legend has it that Tang Yin and Zhang Ling stood by the Fu Xuechi, fighting with their bare hands, saying it was a water war. He also said that Tang Yin, Zhang Ling and Zhu Yunming dressed up as beggars in rainy and snowy days, drummed and sang Lotus Falls, and got money to buy wine to drink in the wild temple. He also proudly said: it's a pity that this kind of happiness can't be known to Li Bai. Legend has it that Zhang Ling once drank a glass under the bean shed, and someone went to see him. He poured himself a drink and ignored it. The man angrily came to Tang Yin and told him about Zhang Rude Mausoleum, but Tang Yin said with a smile, You are mocking me! All these, to name a few. Although it is not necessarily true, it reflects the absurd image of young Tang Yin in people's minds.
However, absurdity may just be the exposed side of Tang Yin's personality. As far as its hidden side is concerned, Tang Yin is actually a very delicate and sensitive person. He has a poem "Poem of Disappointment", which tells the inner world of his youth: when he was a teenager, he was prone to make a fuss. If you are not disappointed in spring, love will not be pitiful. Snow on the pear cup alone, smoke in Baling grass dream. There are two sleeves of golden tears in the past, and three cases have bones. After thinking about it, I should not regret it, so I left in front of the yard with my clothes in my arms. This poem presents a young man's passionate mind, worried about every spring and every relationship; It feels sad, but it doesn't know why; It longs for happiness, but doesn't know how to find it. This is a confession of youth from the bottom of my heart, without any hypocrisy or cover-up. It reflects an important aspect of young Tang Yin's attitude towards life, and also indicates the general trend of Tang Yin's life path.
When Tang Yin was twenty-five, his father, mother, sister, wife and children died one after another. The melancholy youth had just passed, and the shadow of death began to hang over Tang Yin's mind. After middle age, Tang Yin further thought about life. Life is short, and eating, drinking and having fun in time has become the main aspect of his outlook on life. On the other hand, the ruthlessness and closeness of death also gave Tang Yin an enterprising desire to seek fame and ambition. In the poem "White Hair" written that year, he chanted: Stir the mirror, there are filaments on the mysterious head. Feeling sad, the rain suddenly turned into sadness. Fear is cured, and Wei Rong will fail. Young people don't doubt the sky, and fame will be strong. In the cool breeze, the night comes out and the bright moon wears the sky. A gentleman values words and deeds and strives for selfishness. Seeing a few white hairs on my head so sad is probably directly related to the sense of death brought about by the death of my loved ones. In this poem, he said that he would try his best to seek fame in his prime, which is another aspect of his attitude towards life.
In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Tang Yin went to Nanjing to take part in the provincial examination and won the first place in Xieyuan. Although Tang Yin looked down on his career, vanity made him indifferent to this worldly honor. In his seal, one party named Nanjing became attached, and even though he was later ruined, he never forgot to smash the painting; There is also a party called Jiangnan's first romantic talent, claiming to be the first, which also makes people feel that it is related to the first place after the provincial examination. As for his later poems, it is often mentioned that the emperor was the first to understand them.
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, Tang Yin was thirty years old. Due to Liang Chu's recommendation and Tang Yin's reputation, this year's examiners Cheng, Li Dongyang and other officials of the Ministry of Ritual talked about making Tang Yin a university student and winning glory for the Ministry of Ritual. Tang Yin went north with great ambition. Xu Jing, a juren from Jiangyin, is the great-grandfather of Xu Xiake, a famous traveler. On the way to Beijing, he admired Tang Yin's reputation and was very attentive to Tang Yin. After arriving in Beijing, the two became closer. When the exam approached, he bribed Cheng's family with money and got the test questions. He asked Tang Yin to draft it for him. Although Tang Yin also knew that these topics were unknown, it was common to do simulation questions in the imperial examination era. Secondly, because of Xu Jing's face, he didn't take the exam at all, so he took it for Xu Jing. Tang Yin is full of ambition, but not worldly. On one occasion, when chatting in front of friends, he leaked it, only to find that he had been remembered by Du Mu, one of Tang Yin's good friends. To be fair, Du Mu is not a bad person. He is clever and studies hard. He is eleven years older than Tang Yin, and he first advocated ancient prose with Zhu Yunming. At that time, Tang Yin was just a teenager. Later, Tang Yin became more and more famous and looked down on him, which made Du Mu feel very uncomfortable. Last year, Tang Yan won the title of Xie Yuan. It is said that he will be given a middleman with Huiyuan reputation this year. How can he be calm? On the surface, he is still a good friend, but in his heart, he is whispering. Just when Tang Yin revealed that he had bought the examination questions and grabbed the knife for himself, Du Mu intended to disclose it to a surnamed Hua, while Tang Yin was still in the dark. I don't know that after the second game, Hua's secret book had already been sent to the emperor. When the emperor saw this, he flew into a rage and immediately ordered Cheng to stop marking papers, and ordered the Royal Guards to arrest Tang Yin and others. In the Royal Guards Prison, Tang Yin's dignity was swept away, and his flesh suffered, and he suddenly fell from the peak of pride to the abyss of frustration. Looking back on the smugness when I first came to Beijing, I really felt like a lifetime ago. Those in power pity Tang Yin and let him go to Zhejiang to be a small official, which is a way out. Some people advised Tang Yin to take office, because he has background in the future. Tang Yin said, a scholar can be killed, can't be humiliated, flatly refused.
The following year, Tang Yin was released from prison and returned to Suzhou. However, there is no comfort and warmth waiting for him in his hometown. Just like it has happened thousands of times in life, the person who once won the most support now scolds him the most. What embarrassed Tang Yin even more was the attitude of his family. Tang Yin was once a person who had high hopes for the whole family, and was once a person who made the whole family proud. But now, he can never do it, so that his family can never do it. With Tang Yin's sensitivity and sadness, coupled with his family's snobbery and disrespect, it is inevitable that there will be no crisis in family life. Finally, Tang Yin drove away Fannie and Freddie, went out to cook with his brother, and became a loner. The already declining family has also become even more unbearable, and even the livelihood has been difficult. However, compared with Tang Yin's inner pain, the indifference of the world is really nothing. What moved him especially was the pavilions and pavilions in Suzhou, where he left the footprints of his youth everywhere, but now it is difficult to turn back. Tang Yin often lingers alone and stands for a long time, bearing the impact of sadness and pain.