Tang Bohu lights up the love story of Chou-heung.
When Tang Bohu is mentioned, people often see images in folklore and film and television works: brilliant, charming and romantic. In particular, his story "San Xiao lights up Chou-heung" is a household name and has become a popular talk.
Is Tang Bohu really a "romantic genius" in history? Did he really "laugh" because Chou-heung was beautiful, so he sold himself as a boy and "ordered Chou-heung"? This is really an interesting topic.
Although Tang Bohu's poems, books and paintings can be called "three wonders", his story of "lighting up the autumn fragrance" is best known by later generations.
According to the research of Zhao, a famous modern scholar, in the evolution of marriage, the story comes from Yuan Zaju and notes of Ming people, in which the account of Ear Talk is basically consistent with the plot of Lighting Autumn Fragrance, but the protagonist is not.
It is generally believed that Chen, a gifted scholar in Suzhou, is bohemian. Once, he and his friends went to Tiger Hill to play and met Chou-heung unexpectedly. Chou-heung smiled brightly at Chen Gongzi. After Chen Gongzi visited Chou-heung, he disguised himself and went to the butler to be the company of the Gongzi. Soon, Chen felt that it was time, because he found that his son could not live without him, and he lied that he wanted to go home and find a woman to marry. The master said that there are so many maids in your house that you can pick whatever you want. So Chen Gongzi went to Chou-heung as he wished.
Tang Bohu also has a story that only "laughs", which can be found in Zhu Jimei's note "Listening under the Tung". Hongshan, a scholar from China, saw a man in the neighboring ship pouring his own drink when he was berthing at the Wumen boat. He kept shouting angrily and asked, but it turned out to be Tang Bohu. Bachelor China was well dressed, and his son was afraid of his head. He had a good joke with him and got drunk. "Joking, China jiajia smiled through the curtain. Wei Zi impressed Hongshan with Nv Jiao, and Hongshan responded with China Jiuge.
There is only a smile through the curtain, poetry and wine, but there is no marriage.
Later, books such as Miscellaneous Notes on Banana Window and Miscellaneous Notes on Lin Jing compiled it into a story with a beginning and an end, and Tang Bohu began to sell herself into slavery and pursue Chou-heung. By the end of Ming Dynasty, novelist Feng Menglong's "Laughing and Marrying in the Tang Dynasty", the story of "lighting up Chou-heung" was basically finalized.
So, is there Chou-heung in history? Yes According to the research of modern scholar Meng Sen, Chou-heung is the famous slave forest, also known as Chou-heung is her stage name. Born in an official family, he was smart since childhood, familiar with poetry and calligraphy, and loved painting and calligraphy. Because of her parents' death, she became a prostitute in Jinling.
Chou-heung is beautiful and intelligent, and she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so she won the crown in the field of wine and color. Chou-heung was indeed lit, but it was definitely not Tang Bohu, because according to Mr Meng's research, Chou-heung was twenty years older than Tang Bohu. Moreover, Chou-heung had already taken off her registration, and the old rules wanted to catch up with her. She drew a willow tree on the fan and declined the poem:
In the past, Mrs. Zhang danced her waist and let you climb the tender branches.
Now write Danqing, the east wind can no longer shake.
It can be seen that even if Tang Bohu may meet Chou-heung, there will be no chance to fall in love. I don't know where I met Fan Qiuxiang and wrote a four-line poem for her:
Yujin small fan, Wuyun Pavilion, Fairy House.
I read the word Chou-heung between the lines, and I know it is a book by Xue in Chengdu.
Comparing Chou-heung and Xue Tao, we can see that she is also a talented woman. Her paintings were very famous at that time. "History of Painting in Ming Dynasty" records: "Chou-heung studied painting in the father of Shi Tingzhi and Wang Yuan, and his brushwork was the clearest."
Jinling Trivia also records that Chou-heung once studied painting with Shen Zhou. Shen Zhou was a famous painter in Ming Dynasty, and also a painting teacher in Tang Bohu and Wen Zhiming. He wrote in Lin Jiangxian's Landscape Painting of Lin Nuer (that is, Chou-heung): "Dancing songs and folding, Dan Qing keeps his name." It can be seen that Chou-heung is famous for her paintings after she walked out of the romantic field.
As for Hua Taishi, there are also some. He is from Wuxi, Hua Cha. According to the records of Ming history, he was born in 1497 and died in 1574. Jiajing five years (1526), thirteen scholars. He is 27 years younger than Tang Bohu. When he was a scholar, Tang Bohu had been dead for three years. When Tang Bohu bowed to the college students, his coffin had rotted, and later he retired and returned to his hometown.
Not the theory of "romantic genius"
The second case that happened to Tang Bohu was whether he claimed to be "the first romantic genius in Jiangnan".
This statement is self-evident from Yan's Wu Jun Ke Er Zhi. According to the book, after Tang Yin went to Beijing to try his grievances, he began to wander the rivers and lakes. He once said earnestly, "Although a gentleman is not famous, he should be generous. Why does he want to be a prisoner? " Because of its stone, it is called' the first romantic talent in Jiangnan'. "
Many people have raised objections to Tang Bohu's claim to be "the first romantic talent in Jiangnan". The reason is:
First of all, the romantic story about Tang Bohu is basically fiction. Chou-heung, for example, as we have already discussed, Chou-heung's brother Tang Bohu is twenty years old and Tang Bohu, the younger brother of Hua Taishi, is twenty-seven. This is a story of "Joe's satrap is different", which has nothing to do with Tang Bohu's real life. For another example, his third wife's name is Shen nine niang. In ancient times, women were often named after a certain mother. There are "Du Shiniang" who angrily denounced the treasure chest, and "Zhao Jingniang" sent by Zhao Kuangyin thousands of miles away. Shen nine niang was probably her parents' ninth child, but a kind-hearted person attached her to Tang Bohu's ninth wife, so there was the saying of "Nine Beautiful Pictures". Can a man be "nine beautiful" if he is not romantic?
Second, although Yan was from the Ming Dynasty, he had no contact with her in historical materials. Therefore, his account of Tang Bohu is not very reliable. Moreover, judging from the existing seal of "the first romantic genius in the south of the Yangtze River", Judy Bai Wen, about 5.5 cm square, is too big compared with the paintings and seals made by Tang Bohu. In particular, there are not only the words "Peach Blossom Temple is a carving", but also four "Six Poems Like Vulgar Poems", as well as the praises and inscriptions of Wang, painter, Tang and others in the Qing Dynasty, which are suspected of being mysterious and obviously forged by folk busybodies.
Third, Tang Bohu is a man with temperament. Although he is cynical and arrogant, he will never hurt his friends. If he claims to be "the first gifted scholar in Jiangnan", where will Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhiming and others who are also "the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan" be arranged? Zhu Zhishan, in particular, is ten years older than Tang Bohu. His talent is not inferior to that of Tang Bohu, and his romance is grotesque and even excessive. More importantly, Tang Bohu was depressed several times, and Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhiming were his spiritual pillars, which made him rise in the sinking; When Tang Bohu was in financial difficulties, Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhiming gave him selfless assistance. Standing in front of such a kind and loving friend, does he dare to call himself "the first romantic talent in Jiangnan"?
Fourthly, the best period of Tang Bohu's life was a few years after he went to high school at the age of sixteen and became a scholar. At that time, he was still young, his parents were in the hall, his husband and wife were in love, and his fame and fortune had not yet been achieved. He doesn't dare to look down on the world with high standards, nor does he dare to be romantic. At the age of twenty-five, his father, mother, wife, children and sister died one after another, and he was once depressed. At the age of twenty-nine, getting rid of Yuan in Qiu Wei was the peak of his life, but time was tight and he was really too busy to go to Beijing to take the exam next spring. Once you try, you will be arrested and imprisoned. After he was released from prison, his official career was cut off, his face was lost, his wife left the church, and his family was left out. He lived only by selling paintings, and his business was bleak, and he gradually got into trouble. There are no clouds and clouds in his poems, and he can't see his elegance. Most of them are "sad boss", "sick body" and "no money in the pocket", including sentimental words, depressed words, warning words and masturbation words. Especially the evening scene is bleak, poor and sick, and the poem says:
If ten dynasties wind and rain are in a coma, eight wives are hungry.
Xin is an old fool, and no one comes to buy a poem.