Car dust and clues show things, and wine is hidden in snuff. If the revealer is compared to a hermit, one is underground and the other is in heaven. If we compare Hua San to horses and chariots, I will have no leisure. Others laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.

I still remember the first time I heard this ancient poem, it was in "Tang Bohu Dianchouxiang" starring Stephen Chow. At that time, I thought this poem was really well written, not only easy to read, but also catchy, especially the sentence "others laugh at me crazy, but I can't see through others." Isn't this the attitude towards life that many people are pursuing but can't do?

However, I never knew who wrote this poem. I once thought it was a script in a movie. Later, I learned that this poem was really written by Tang Bohu, and it is called Song of the Peach Blossom Temple.

In our impression, Tang Bohu is an out-and-out romantic genius. In order to win back the beauty, he willingly entered Washington as a servant. Talented men are so persistent in love that Tang Bohu is really the best male god in many women's minds.

But this is just Tang Bohu in film and television, and Tang Bohu in history is not such an image at all.

Tang Bohu is not romantic, but she is very loyal to love. Tang Bohu is not charming, but ordinary and restrained everywhere. Besides, Tang Bohu never ordered Chou-heung. I have to say that film and television processing is really an art, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

But no matter how film and television are processed, Tang Bohu's talent is undeniable.

Life in Tang Bohu is not smooth. On the contrary, he experienced many twists and turns. When he was poor, he used to make a living by selling calligraphy and painting. On one occasion, he wrote couplets for the toilet with 10, which was despised by scholars all over the world.

In this regard, Tang Bohu justifiably defended himself. Why should I make money by talent?

And this pair of couplets written by Tang Bohu for toilets has become a classic of later generations. So what kind of couplets did Tang Bohu write for the toilet? Let's take a look together.

Tang Bohu: I've had a rough life and endured unbearable pain. Tang Bohu is a genius, but he is not romantic at all. Many people think that Tang Bohu married nine wives in his life, which is not romantic, so there are no romantic people, right?

In fact, Tang Bohu doesn't have nine wives. After careful calculation, Tang Bohu had only three wives, and these three wives appeared in different stages of Tang Bohu's life.

The first wife died in childbirth, and the second wife left him when his career was frustrated. The third wife (to be exact, just a lover) was a dusty woman named Shen nine niang, but her life was bad and she died early. It is because of Shen nine niang's name that people mistakenly think that he has nine wives.

Tang Bohu's age of 24 is an obstacle in his life. His father died in this year, and his mother, wife, son and sister died in succession in the following period of time. Tang Bohu suffered unbearable pain for ordinary people. He used to follow the example of Li Bai, never leaving his body, and was hung over every day.

Fortunately, Tang Bohu also has a good buddy-Zhu Zhishan. Under his persuasion, Tang Bohu rallied, decided to take the imperial examination, and married a second wife.

Tang Bohu was talented and won the first place in the provincial examination, so he went to Beijing to take the exam, but to Tang Bohu's surprise, fate played a joke on him again.

Tang Bohu: I have been lonely all my life. I have experienced unbearable insults. Tang Bohu went to Beijing to take the exam, and I was determined to win. Think about it, too. Look at the time when I lived in Tang Bohu, whose talent can match it?

But it happened that Tang Bohu was inexplicably involved in the fraud case in the examination room, and the final result was that Tang Bohu was demoted as a petty official in Zhejiang and Francisco. Speaking of this, some people may have said that a small official is also an official, and it is not bad to be a big official.

Tang Bohu doesn't think so. He felt insulted by the imperial court. He didn't take office because he was a big steamed stuffed bun. He didn't want Tang Bohu to be sweeter. His second wife didn't understand Tang Bohu's practice at all, and their relationship gradually fell out. Finally, his wife ran away with her property.

From then on, Tang Bohu stopped thinking about being an official and began to travel all over the country, but people always wanted to eat. Tang Bohu doesn't want to be a small official, so naturally he has no salary. Fortunately, Tang Bohu had calligraphy and painting, so he made a living by selling calligraphy and painting at that time, but people at that time didn't know how valuable Tang Bohu's paintings were now, so naturally he wouldn't pay a high price.

In this way, Tang Bohu is always worried about his livelihood. On one occasion, he did something that made scholars all over the world laugh at, asking for twelve taels of silver to write couplets for the toilet.

Tang Bohu: What's wrong with writing couplets for toilets? I make money by talent. I don't steal or rob Tang Bohu. Although I didn't live a well-fed life during my trip, his talent spread widely. Many people admire his talent and hope that Tang Bohu will write a poem or a couplet for me.

Once, Tang Bohu went to a small county, and the magistrate was a scholar who liked couplets very much. In houses, pavilions and other buildings at home, couplets are written wherever they can be written.

But when he faced his new toilet, he was worried, because he couldn't think of a suitable couplet to paste, so the county magistrate offered a reward of 10 silver to buy a couplet, but the notice was posted for several days, and no one was willing to take the job. Think about it, too. Scholars have pride since ancient times. Writing couplets to the toilet is nothing, and it has not been laughed off by everyone.

Later, the magistrate heard that Tang Bohu had come to his own territory, so he asked his housekeeper to go to Tang Bohu with wine and money. When Tang Bohu saw the money and wine on the door, he didn't refuse. A wave of his hand, a pair of couplets wrote:

The first part is: It seems that the guests are affectionate and will never regret taking off their clothes.

The bottom line is: don't say this thing is useless, it will protect the flowers more when it becomes spring mud.

After Tang Bohu put pen to paper, people around him cheered. This couplet is really unique. The first part is about people who are convenient to go to the toilet, and the second part is about what people leave behind after they leave. Vivid and elegant. This couplet is hung in front of the toilet, definitely to improve the quality of the toilet.

This couplet is also admired by later generations, and Tang Bohu's talent is really amazing.

Tang Bohu drifted all his life, leaving a lot of words, paintings, poems, couplets and stories, but how many people know his miserable life, as he said in Seventy Words:

Life is 70 years old, and I am 70 years old. Young in the first ten years, aging in the second ten years; There are only fifty years in the middle, and half of it has passed overnight. I've only lived for 25 years and experienced a lot of troubles.

It's just that Tang Bohu didn't live to be 70. He died at the age of 54.

You are so clever, can you write better couplets than Tang Bohu? Just try it.

References:

Complete works of China's couplets.

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