Red Mansion, Second Master Lian is too despicable

Chapter 123 Miscellaneous Talk: Li Guinian, Huang Banchuo Jing Xinmo, who was born from the two blessings of good and evil

As soon as the two of them entered the capital, apart from spending the rest of the time having fun and drinking, Xu Jing took Tang Bohu to visit the homes of celebrities, senior officials and exam invigilators. Xu Jing was rich and powerful, riding a BMW and giving generous gifts, which made the atmosphere very grand.After the joint examination, there was a rumor throughout the capital that "Jiangyin rich man Xu Jing spent money to buy the examination questions", and even everyone in Shuntian Prefecture knew about it.

The imperial court ordered a strict investigation, and Tang Yin followed Xu Jing into prison.After repeated investigations, a review was conducted by Li Dongyang, a bachelor, and the evidence was insufficient, so he was released from prison.Because Tang Yin and Xu Jing passed the provincial examination, they were demoted to minor officials this time. They could not even think about becoming officials. They were banned from taking the examination for life!
Xu Jing went home to study behind closed doors. After Ming Xiaozong died, Xu Jing hoped that the new emperor would pardon the world and take part in the imperial examination again.He said that after reading "Historical Records" recently, he found that Sima Qian was too great, and he wanted to follow Sima Qian to visit all over the country, and then go home and write a book.Just going north to Shuntian Mansion, I actually wanted to find out if I could still take the imperial examination.As a result, he was angry and sick, and died in the capital at the age of 35.His descendant Xu Xiake is really a super travel traveler, and has traveled to 21 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions today. The opening day of "Xu Xiake's Travels" (May 5) is designated as China Tourism Day.

When Tang Yin was asked to be a minor official, he felt deeply ashamed and refused to do so. He also returned to his hometown in Suzhou. His wife exploded. Tang Bohu took a look and refused to let me go to bed. He also wanted to take advantage of her. Before she was dumped, he dumped his wife. Divorce your wife.The No. 1 student in two provinces and one city was banned from taking the exam for life, and his wife ran away. Tang Yin couldn't stand the pointing and gossiping of his neighbors, so he traveled around Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang.

Two years later, he returned home with his sick body. His brother Tang applied to come to the doctor. After treating him for more than half a year, his condition improved, and he went to eat, drink and have fun again.There is no filial son before a long-term illness, let alone a younger brother. He feels better, but he doesn't know how to cherish him. If he falls ill again, he will inevitably be laughed at by outsiders regardless of whether he is sick. Therefore, the brothers divide the family and live their own lives.

Tang Yin also put aside his poor self-esteem and sold calligraphy and painting in Suzhou. When he had money, he indulged in drinking and sex.He found that the money for normal painting was too slow, and there were not so many elegant people to appreciate it.Uncle Liu Bei and Emperor Liu could consider it, but not many people are literate and there are quite a few who write pornographic books.After much deliberation, I decided to draw a small yellow painting. Once the male and female nudes are drawn, it can be understood by both literate and non-literate people.In today's terms, this is called in-depth analysis of target customers and accurate market positioning.During this period, Tang Bohu's erotic pictures quickly occupied the pornographic market and performed well. If they were listed on the market, they would rise by the daily limit for at least a week.

Chapter 20 of "Dream of Red Mansions" No. [-], Xue Pan said: "I just remembered it when you mentioned the painting. Yesterday I saw a painting of an erotic palace. It was really good. There were many words on it, but I didn't read it carefully. (Looking at it is in vain, not many people are literate!) Just look at the fallen inscriptions, which are painted by 'Geng Huang'. It's really good and amazing!" Baoyu said: "I have seen some ancient and modern calligraphy and painting, and there is one there. 'Geng Huang'?" After thinking about it for a long time, he started to laugh, and ordered someone to take the pen, wrote two words in the palm of his hand, and asked Xue Pan: "Do you really think it is 'Geng Huang'?" Xue Pan said: "Why don't you think it's true?" Baoyu raised his hand and looked at him and said: "Don't mention these two characters?" When everyone looked at it, it turned out to be "Tang Yin".

Xue Pan didn't know a few Chinese characters, but he admired Tang Bohu's erotic pictures. People like Xue Pan should be included in key account management.It is said that Tang Yin's figure paintings have superb realistic skills, with accurate images and lifelike charm, especially when painting women.You must know that Tang Bohu has many customers, a big market, and he paints a lot!Nude painting, with clothes added, becomes a painting of a lady. The smooth lines and graceful figure are something that practice makes perfect.

Most of the clothed women in Tang Bohu's works are lonely. In the famous Shanghai Museum's "Autumn Wind Fan", there is a woman on the edge of the Taihu stone, holding a fan. She has a beautiful appearance, but a sad feeling.At that time, Ban Jieyu was the most favored beauty of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty. When Zhao Feiyan came to the palace, Ban Jieyu was ignored, just like a fan that was no longer used in autumn and was forgotten by the emperor in a corner.

Tang Yin knew that most of his customers were accustomed to seeing small yellow pictures, and if they were more elegant, Xue Pan would not be able to understand them. He wrote a poem in the upper left corner of the picture: "Autumn comes and the fan is collected together, what is the beauty of it?" Very sentimental. Please look at the world in detail, most people don’t like the heat and the cold.”Later, it was also used by Nalan Xingde as: "If life is just like the first meeting, why is the autumn wind sad and painted on the fan?"

Tang Bohu used the relationship between autumn wind and fans to lament the harshness of the world.And the fan that was put aside after the autumn wind was also his own fate. A person who was abandoned by the imperial examination system, a person who made a living by drawing yellow pictures, was already spurned by the mainstream literati.As for his group of customers, except for idiots like Xue Pan, who dare to say anything, most of them still buy quietly. After all, they can't be on the market. They like Tang Bohu's erotic pictures, but once they admit it publicly, they become obscene. .Teacher Guo Degang said that he sometimes watches bed kung fu movies with a critical eye, just to amuse everyone.

The "Four Beauties" collected by the Palace Museum is also one of Tang Yin's masterpieces. It depicts four beauties wearing Taoist robes and exquisite makeup. The four people look lonely together at first glance, but Tang Yin did not use any vegetation, rocks, or towers. , furniture as decoration, and a poem was inscribed in the upper right corner of the painting: "The lotus crown and the Taoist robe, serve the king and feast the crape myrtle every day. The flowers and willows don't know that the person is gone, and they fight for the green and the scarlet every year."

It is said that Wang Yan, the queen of the former Shu, had many concubines, and he decided where to spend the night every day by looking at the cards. Moreover, he believed that no matter how beautiful a woman was, she was still a common person. She had to wear gorgeous Taoist robes to look like a Taoist immortal and charming. Touching, in today's terms, Wang Yan is a "uniform control". When the country was destroyed, he was still drinking with a beautiful Taoist priest.

The four women in "Four Beauties" were bathing and dressing up, wearing lotus crowns and immortal clothes, waiting for the king to turn over their cards. The king was already having fun with other beauties in the Ziwei Palace. They didn't know it yet. Every evening, groups of three or five still gather together to compete for beauty.

Tang Bohu thought that his lonely fan after the autumn wind still had a chance, because summer would come again, and he was waiting for it, but summer came too slowly. I feel sad and ridiculous for waiting so stupidly.He built Peach Blossom Nunnery on the outskirts of Suzhou, and while waiting, comforted himself. The song "Song of Peach Blossom Nunnery" is a monologue by Tang Bohu who is indifferent to fame and fortune but longs for success:
Taohua Temple in Taohuawu, Taohua Temple under Taohua Fairy.

The peach blossom fairy grows peach trees and picks peach blossoms for wine.

Just sit in front of the flowers when you wake up, and come to sleep when you are drunk.

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

I hope that the old people die in the wine room, and they don't want to bow in front of the cart.

Cars, dust and horses are enough for the rich, and wine-cups and branches are for the poor.If the rich and the noble are compared to the poor and the humble, one is on the ground and the other is in the sky.

If the poor and the lowly are compared to a carriage and a horse, he has to drive me free.

Others laugh at me too crazy, I laugh at others and can't see through.

There is no tomb of Wuling heroes, no flowers and no wine to hoe the fields.

The emperor changed two or three times, and there was no chance of seriousness. Tang Bohu waited for the third sudden change in his life.He was favored by the emperor's uncle, Prince Ning, and hired as an aide. With the help of noble people this time, he must seize the opportunity to make a comeback. The 44-year-old Tang Bohu suddenly looked much younger. He chatted with his neighbors and friends, gave away the things he didn't need at home, and went to report to Prince Ning's Mansion in Nanchang in great glory.Prince Ning was recruiting quite a lot of people this time. After Tang Bohu inquired with several customers who had bought his Xiao Huang paintings, he found out that Prince Ning was going to rebel.

Tang Bohu was not stupid. He refused to do anything that would surely lead to his death. He asked King Ning for sick leave. King Ning said that he was not sick and would not allow him to leave Nanchang even half a step.Tang Bohu also understood that he knew too many things. It was lucky that King Ning did not kill him. It was easy to get off the pirate ship, so why would he let him go out and talk nonsense?He went crazy, talked nonsense, beat himself, ate shit and drank urine, ran naked in the palace, and chased women naked on the street. When King Ning saw that Tang Bohu was really sick, he let him go.

I saved my life, but the little money I had saved from selling yellow paintings was gone, and my reputation became even worse. I returned to Taohua Temple dejectedly.Tang Bohu thought for a while, and as he got older, he had to regain some of his dignity as a scholar and act elegantly.He converted to Buddhism and called himself "Liu Ru layman". With the help of Zhu Zhishan, he rebuilt Taohuawu. He also said that he would not draw erotic pictures even if he died of starvation. He also wrote "The Song of a Poor Man" to encourage himself, "I believe it is God who is playing tricks on me. No one came to buy my fan-head poems. The white-haired old man in the green mountains was stubborn, and his life as a pen and inkstone was hard. People in the paddy fields on the lake didn’t want it, so who would buy my paintings of Zhongshan?” The elegant ones couldn’t be sold, and I had no money. I was so poor that I had no money for three days. He started the fire to cook, but in this poem he said with a smile: "The baby is not hungry!"

After gritting his teeth and persisting for a year, Tang Bohu was attracted by his parents and officials in his hometown due to the recommendation of Zhu Zhishan and others. He also followed two previous magistrates until he died of illness. During this period, he painted many landscape paintings, which are displayed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei and the National Palace Museum in Beijing. , Shanghai Museum and Nanjing Museum have collections.

"Spring Mountain Companions" is one of Tang Bohu's masterpieces from this period. On a large stone, two small figures sit cross-legged, one facing the front and the other with his back to the audience.The figure is surrounded by earth, rocks, dead trees and broken branches. There are old trees and new buds around the figure, which is full of the warmth of spring.The middle part is covered by curved railings, the mountain road is winding, and there is a small waterfall on the far right that flows into the stream.The distant view shows a small peak covered by cascading mountains. The mountains are majestic in front, the mountains behind are steep, and there are faint mountains in the distance.The brushwork is clean and neat, the landscape is grand, and the characters are small. "A mayfly is placed in the sky and the earth, a drop in the ocean." There are too many people who have gone through ups and downs. After success or failure, they have to sit in a small corner to reminisce.

19. Zhu Zhishan
He was a fellow countryman of Tang Bohu, his name was Zhu Yunming. He had a strange appearance, and even he laughed at himself for being ugly. He had six fingers on his right hand, so he came from Haozhishan. He was a famous calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty.

In Stephen Chow's version of "Tang Bo Hu Spots Autumn Fragrance", Mr. Chen Baixiang left a deep impression on the audience. The character Zhu Zhishan he played even drew a picture of a "chicken eating rice".It is true that no paintings of the real Zhu Zhishan have been handed down, but Zhu Zhishan made many achievements in literature and calligraphy.In order to highlight Tang Bohu's image as a romantic and talented man, Zhu Zhishan became the "best bad friend" in the movie.

In real life, Zhu Zhishan is the eldest brother among the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". He is nine years older than Tang Bohu and Wen Zhengming, and 19 years older than Xu Zhenqing.Among the four, Xu Zhenqing was the youngest. He passed the Jinshi examination in his early years and moved to Shuntian Mansion. He died early and his relationship was average.Of the three remaining, Wen Zhengming is honest, while Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan are open-minded and willful, and they are the best.

Tang Bohu was 12 years old and already well-known in his hometown. Zhu Zhishan took the initiative to visit him and presented him with poems, starting to establish a friendship.He accompanied Tang Bohu throughout his life, and he always cared about and admired Tang Bohu despite all the changes. Today, there is a sentence in the Tang Yin Memorial Hall in Suzhou, "Zhu Yunming, a close friend at home."

Zhu Yunming was also a person with bad luck. He was selected as a scholar at the age of 19. He took five provincial examinations and took 15 years to pass the examination. He failed to pass the examination six times.Seeing that his son Zhu Xu had passed the Jinshi examination, he took the examination for the seventh time but failed.Only then did he give up the idea of ​​taking the imperial examination and select officials as a candidate.In the ninth year of Zhengde (1514), he became the magistrate of Xingning County, Guangdong. In the second year, Tang Bohu returned to his hometown from Prince Ning's Mansion in Nanchang. He also contributed money to help Tang Bohu repair his house and introduced jobs to Tang Bohu.In the first year of Jiajing (1522), Zhu Zhishan was promoted to the general magistrate of Yingtian Mansion, and soon returned home after claiming illness.

Zhu Zhishan failed in the imperial examination and indulged in debauchery, and Tang Bohu also accompanied him.It was recorded that the two of them dressed up as beggars and sang opera in the rain. After receiving the reward, they went to a brothel and got drunk.There are also records that one summer, Tang Bohu visited Zhu Zhishan and saw Zhu Zhishan very drunk, naked and writing big characters with ink. Perhaps he was imitating Liu Ling whom we talked about in previous episodes. The world is his home and the house is his underwear. Tang Bohu came into his underwear.

Zhu Zhishan wrote countless epitaphs for others throughout his life, and he wrote them most carefully for his best friend Tang Bohu, which is an important basis for scholars to study Tang Bohu's life.In the fourth year of Jiajing's reign in the Ming Dynasty (1525), Zhu Zhishan was 65 years old and had been retired for more than two years. He was seeing a doctor and taking medicine, and his life was in straits.He was naturally arrogant and unwilling to accept charity, so Wen Zhengming's son had to set up high-quality paper and ink in his study and invited Zhu Zhishan to leave his calligraphy.Zhu Zhishan was well fed and drunk, and took advantage of his excitement to write "Nineteen Ancient Poems" in cursive cursive. It was so brilliant that Wen Zhengming's son successfully gave him an objective amount of "pen polishing fees."

Li Guinian, Huang Banchuo, Jing Xinmo, who were born from the two blessings of good and evil
[Text: Men and women who are born with this spirit will not be able to become benevolent gentlemen above, nor will they be capable of great evil below.Among tens of thousands of people, his cleverness, handsomeness, and grace will be superior to those of tens of thousands of people, while his absurdity and inhumane attitude will be below those of tens of millions of people.If you are born into a rich and noble family, you will be of the infatuated kind. If you are born into a poor family with poetry and literature, you will be a dissolute and noble person. Even if you happen to be born into a poor family in Bo Zuo, you will never be able to serve as a foot soldier and will be driven away by mediocrity. Controlling the system will definitely be a famous and famous one.Such as Xu You, Tao Qian, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Liu Ling, the Wang Xie clan, Gu Hutou, Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, Liu Tingzhi, Wen Feiqing, Minangong, Shi Manqing, Liu Qiqing, Qin Shaoyou in the previous generation, Recently, Ni Yunlin, Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, and others like Li Guinian, Huang Banchuochuò, Jing Xinmo, Zhuo Wenjun, Hongfu, Xue Tao, Cui Ying, Chaoyun and others.These are all the same people who changed places. 】This "people who are the same in different places" refers to a type of people who are born when righteousness and evil are fighting each other. This kind of people have both righteousness and evil in them, although they are from different times and have different experiences. The opportunities are different, but the nature of these people is the same, that is, they have both good and evil talents.

(End of this chapter)