Lantern Festival

If there are lanterns but no moon, it will not entertain people. If there is a moon but no lanterns, it will not be spring.

When spring arrives in the world, people are like jade, and when the lamp is burning, the moon is like silver.

The streets are full of pearls and emeralds, and the village girls are dancing and singing, and the gods are competing with each other.

How can we spend this good time without showing off our beauty and opening our mouths to smile?

Tang Yin (March 6, 1470 - January 7, 1524) was born on the fourth day of February in the sixth year of Chenghua and died on December 2, the second year of Jiajing. His courtesy name was Bohu, which was later changed to Ziwei, also known as Liuru, was a painter, calligrapher and poet of the Ming Dynasty.

When he was 30 years old, he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. He was involved in leaking the test questions and was dismissed. His wife remarried, and his life was full of hardships. Later, he traveled to famous mountains and rivers and became famous all over the world for selling literary works and paintings.

In his early years, he studied painting with Shen Zhou and Zhou Chen, under the patriarchal tradition of Li Tang and Liu Songnian, and integrated the northern and southern painting schools. The figure painter inherited the tradition of the Tang Dynasty, with bright and elegant colors, graceful postures and accurate shapes; he also used freehand brushwork of figures with concise, comprehensive and interesting strokes. His flower and bird paintings are good at freehand ink painting, free and elegant. The calligraphy is unique and handsome, and is modeled after Zhao Mengfu.

In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". In paintings, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying, they are called the "Four Schools of Wu Clan", also known as the "Four Schools of Ming Dynasty".

Tang Yin's works include "Riding a Donkey Thinking of Returning", "Sound of Pines on Mountain Road", "Shi Ming Picture", "Prostitutes in Wang Shu Palace", "Li Duanduan's Registration", "Autumn Wind Fan" Paintings such as "Picture" and "Picture of Birds on a Dry Tree" are collected in major museums around the world.