Smell China

Tang Yin, 1470-1523, has another name Tang Bohu, was born in a businessmen’s family. He is very clever when he was young. But some misfortunes come to his family at his 20’s, his parents, wife and sister die one after another, his family environment becomes bad to worse. Then, under the help of his good friend Zhu Zhishan, he started to study hard. At the age of 29, he took an examination of the local government and got the title of No.1 called “Xieuan”. At the age of 30, Tang went to the capital and took part in the central government’s examination. However, he was involved in a cheating case. From then on, he began his life selling his pictures.

Although Tang was in talent, having dreams, ambitions and a talent penman in history, his character of highly critical of society makes him hard to live. His path through life was hard, and finally die a dog’s death when he was 54. Just before his death, he wrote a poem shows that he is both envy and be reluctant to leave the world.

All in his life, he is good at drawing scenes, people, flowers and birds and achieve some success in both handwriting and literature. And he is being considered of the head of “The Four Gifted Scholar of Southern China”.