Among the four gifted scholars in Jiangnan, Tang Bohu became famous at a young age and was recognized as a child prodigy. However, his life is not smooth. The young man lost his father and his wife died a few years after his first marriage. Shortly thereafter, his mother, sister and son died one after another, which made Tang Bohu depressed for a long time.
Under the guidance of friends, I gradually cheered up, married a wife named He, and later remarried to Beijing to prepare for the college entrance examination. Before Tang Bohu, he was the first champion in Xieyuan's provincial examination, so he decided to take the entrance examination for the champion.
But on the way to the exam, they happened to meet Xu Jing, a rich boy. Along the way, they went hand in hand and had deep feelings for each other. Xu Jing took good care of Tang Bohu economically, and Tang Bohu gave Xu Jing everything he knew. After the imperial examination, both of them felt good, so Tang Bohu boasted in the hotel that he could get the first place and Xu Jing could get the second place.
The speaker was careless, but the audience was very interested. Some people suspected that Tang Bohu cheated, so they reported it to the court. Unexpectedly, Xu Jing was found to have bribed the examiner, who leaked the examination questions to Xu Jing. Although Tang Bohu was proved innocent, the emperor still revoked Tang Bohu's reputation and ordered him not to take the imperial examinations again in his life.
The road to fame and fortune was broken, and the second wife didn't want to suffer any more. She quarreled with him every day, so she signed a piece of paper to give him a divorce and let her go. Since then, I have been with Shen nine niang, a prostitute, and they are congenial. Tang Bohu drinks and writes poems in Taohua Temple every day, and has made great achievements in poetry, especially in Danqing. Until the age of 54, Tang Bohu died of poverty.
Chou-heung is recorded in History of Painting and Trivia of Jinling. Chou-heung, whose real name is Lin Nuer, is 20 years older than Tang Bohu and has nothing in common with Tang Bohu. In Ear Talk, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty, there is a story about Chen, a talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, and his official family begging for a woman's autumn fragrance. Its content is basically the same as that of the popular autumn fragrance at that time, but the later generations are sympathetic.