Tang Yin, one of the four talents of Wuzhong in the Ming Dynasty, "Peach Blossom Nunnery Song" wrote this. Now, let's talk about his story:
Feng Menglong: A Laughing Marriage Tale for the Ages
Feng Menglong, a great talent of the Ming Dynasty, wrote the story of Tang Pak Fu's pointing of the autumn fragrance in the twenty-sixth volume of the Aphorisms, Tang Xie Yuan's Laughing Marriage Tale. Subsequently, the story was slowly circulated and gradually perfected.
People love this story, and the Tang Pak Fu in everyone's mind is a story of outstanding family character, great talent, winning the lottery at a young age, and leaving behind a beautiful love.
Tang Yin: a young man to become a poet, calligraphy and painting three excellent
Tang Yin was born into a family of officials and eunuchs, more than three generations are local officials, to his father's generation, the family way, although in the middle of the decline, but in Suzhou is still affluent.
Tang Bohu, who was young and smart, was fifteen years old when he took the first place to make up a student of the Suzhou Prefectural Government School, and was twenty-eight years old when he took the first place (Xieyuan) in the countryside examination of Yingtian Prefecture.
At the same time, Tang Bohu was also unique in painting, poetry and calligraphy, and was known as one of the Four Great Talents together with Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing.
But today to say, not so Tang Pak Fu
Family drama
Tang Pak Fu twenty-four years old, his father, mother, wife, son died one after another, his sister overwhelmed by the family changes committed suicide, leaving him and his younger brother, Tang Shen two people.
In particular, the departure of his father left Tang Pak Fu without financial resources, and it was only through the help of his friends that he was able to continue his studies and take part in the imperial examinations.
Tang Pak Fu was implicated in a major case
Tang Pak Fu in the understanding of the yuan, the next year to Beijing to participate in the examination, the examination examiner is also a child prodigy, Cheng Minzheng. This person is less than twenty high school top, indeed very learned, learned, resulting in this time he made the question is very biased, biased to what extent? One of the only two candidates answered correctly.
Which two people? One is Tong Pak Fu, one is called Xu Jing. To add one more thing, Xu Jing is the ancestor of the famous traveler Xu Xiake.
Perhaps you will think, this is not simple, these two people a scholar and a top student, arrangement!
But at that time the Ming dynasty court internal struggle is intense, this now someone thus accused Cheng Minzheng tradition Tang Bohu Xu Jing cheating.
The result of a few struggles down, Xu Jing and Cheng Minzheng's section cheating is situated, Tang Pak Fu although the charge is not situated, but the results are also abolished, and the future is also abolished.