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Tang Yin

In thisChinese name,thefamily nameisTang( đường ).

Tang Yin(Chinese:Đường dần;pinyin:Táng Yín;Cantonese Yale:Tong Yan;6 March 1470[1]– 7 January 1524[2]),courtesy nameBohu(Bá hổ[3]) andZiwei( tử úy ),[4]was a Chinese painter,calligrapher,andpoetof theMing dynastyperiod.

Tang Yin
Born6 March 1470
Died7 January 1524 (aged 53)
EducationProtégé of Wen Lin
Known forPoetry, Painting

Even though he was born during the Ming dynasty, many of his paintings, especially those of people, were illustrated with elements from Pre-TangtoSong dynastyart.[5][6]

Tang Yin is one of the most notable painters in the history ofChinese art.He is one of the "Four Masters of Ming dynasty”(Ming Si Jia), which also includesShen Zhou(1427–1509),Wen Zhengming(1470–1559) andQiu Ying(c. 1495–1552). His influence on the art of contemporaries, likeCai Han,is notable.[7]Tang was also a talented poet, and together with his contemporaries Wen Zhengming,Zhu Yunming(1460–1526), andXu Zhenqing,he was one of the "Four Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region".

Life

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Clearing after Snow on a Mountain Passby Tang Yin ( hàm quan tuyết tễ )

Tang emerged from the vital merchant class ofSuzhou,at a very low economic level of the son of a restaurant operator. Contrary to some accounts, he seems to have studied assiduously during his youth, paying little attention to material gains. His genius, which would later gain him renown as the supreme talent of theJiangnanarea (Southern China), soon drew him into the wealthy, powerful, and talented social circles of Suzhou. Wen Zhengming became his friend; Wen's father, Wen Lin (1445–99), acted as something of a patron, making the right connections for him.[8]

He was a brilliant student and later became the protégé of Wen Lin. His friends in the Suzhou scholarly circles includedShen Zhou,Wu Kuan(1436–1504) and Zhu Yunming. In 1498 Tang Yin came first in the provincial examinations inNanjing,the second stage in theImperial examinationladder. The following year he went to the capital to sit in the national examinations, but he and his friend Xu Jing (?–1507) were accused of bribing the servant of one of the chief examiners to give them the examination questions in advance. All parties were jailed, and Tang Yin returned to Suzhou in disgrace, his high hopes for a distinguished civil service career dashed forever.[9]

Denied further official progress, he pursued a life of pleasure and earned a living by selling his paintings. That mode of living brought him into disrepute with a later generation of artist-critics (for example,Dong Qichang) who felt that financial independence was vital to enable an artist to follow his own style and inspiration. While Tang is associated with paintings of feminine beauty, his paintings (especially landscapes) otherwise exhibit the same variety and expression of his peers and reveal a man of both artistic skill and profound insight.[10]

Works

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Court courtesans of theFormer Shuby Tang Yin (1470-1524)

Tang Yin perfected an admirable hand insemi-cursive script(also known as running script). His poems touch on themes which people like Wen Zhengming or the older Shen Zhou would have never taken up. Tang seems compelled to deal with the base elements in man - envy, venality, and cupidity. Tragic unfulfillment, driven by belief in the relentlessness of fate and the bitterness of the ultimate truth imbues his more thoughtful poems. At times he is overcome by tragic sorrow for the loss of childlike innocence; at times even love is fraught with ruin and unhappiness. Those poems which do manage to begin on an optimistic note often end on a note of regret.

Tang Yin also wroteA Short Verse on Bamboo:

"The moon sinks in the fourth watch, Paper windows seem transparent; Stirring from wine, I prop my head and read awhile. High thoughts, I force myself, but can't help it; Ten stalks, still green in winter, cast profuse shadows."[11]

The paintingThe Return Home of Tao Qianwas acquired by Eve Myers in 1950, when she was an employee of General Chenault's 'Flying Tigers' inTaiwan,as thousands of refugees were fleeingMao's regimewith whatever they could carry.

Myth

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Tang's eccentric lifestyle has prompted storytellers to immortalize him as atrickstercharacter in Chinese folklore. In one such story, he falls in love with a slave girl whom he glimpses on the boat of a high official passing throughSuzhou.He has himself sold as a slave to the official's household so that he may approach her. With the help of his friends, he eventually succeeds in bringing her home.[12]This story prompted the playThree WordsbyFeng Menglongand the operaThe Three Smiles.

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Tang's life was the basis for a number of plays and films based on Feng Menglong's story.[13]

Tang was the subject of a major exhibition at theNational Palace Museum,Taipei.[22]

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  • Watching the Spring and Listening to the Wind(Khán tuyền thính phong đồ),Nanjing Museum
  • Making the Bride's Gown
  • Tao Gu Presents a Poem(Đào cốc tặng từ đồ)
  • Mountain Road and Whispering Pines(Sơn lộ tùng thanh)

See also

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References

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  1. ^Tang Yin's epitaph ( đường tử úy mộ chí tịnh minh ) byZhu Yunmingindicted that he was born on the 4th day of the 2nd month of the 6th year of the reign ofEmperor Chenghua,and that he was named "Yin" as he was born in ageng'yinyear. ( tử úy mẫu khâu thị dĩ thành hóa lục niên nhị nguyệt sơ tứ nhật sinh tử úy, tuế xá canh dần, danh chi viết dần...)Tang Ziwei Muzhi Bingming
  2. ^Tang Yin's epitaph by Zhu Yunming indicted that he died at the age of 54 (by East Asian reckoning) on the 2nd day of the 12th month of theguiweiyear during the reign of theJiajing Emperor.( tốt gia tĩnh quý vị thập nhị nguyệt nhị nhật, đắc niên ngũ thập tứ. )Tang Ziwei Muzhi Bingming
  3. ^not to be confused with the elder brother of Song-dynasty scholar Tang Geng ( đường canh ), who changed his given name to "Bohu", but his courtesy name was "Zhangru" ( trường nhụ ) ([ đường ] canh huynh đệ ngũ nhân, trường huynh chiêm, tự vọng chi, hậu cải danh bá hổ, tự trường nhụ. )Song Shi,vol.443
  4. ^Tang Yin's epitaph, written by Zhu Yunming, addressed him by this courtesy name.
  5. ^"Tang Yin - China culture".Archived fromthe originalon 2009-07-09.Retrieved2009-07-05.
  6. ^Anne De Coursey Clapp (November 1991)."The Painting of T'ang Yin"(1st ed.). University Of Chicago Press: 114 & 127–162. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on July 9, 2009.RetrievedMay 20,2009.{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help)
  7. ^Xie tạ, Li lệ (1988). "Thái hàm đích sơn thủy đồ thưởng tích" [Appreciation of Cai Han's landscape pictures].Sichuan Wenwu(in Chinese) (6).
  8. ^Friends of Wen Cheng-Ming - A View from the Crawford Collection,China Institute in America
  9. ^"artnet.com: Resource Library: Tang Yin".GroveArt. August 12, 2007..
  10. ^"Tang Yin".Encyclopaedia Britannica.Retrieved15 December2024.
  11. ^T'ang Po-hu hsien-sheng ch'uan-chi(Taipei, 1970 ed.), vol I, p. 252.
  12. ^Kang-i Sun Chang;Stephen Owen,eds. (2010).The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature vol 2.Cambridge University Press. p. 379.ISBN9780521855594.
  13. ^"Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang - Search Results".search.worldcat.org.
  14. ^"Xin Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang".February 28, 1953 – via IMDb.
  15. ^"How the Scholar Tang Bohu Won the Maid Qiuxiang (1957)".hkmdb.com.
  16. ^"San xiao".September 24, 1969 – via IMDb.
  17. ^"Tam tiếu nhân duyên | WorldCat.org".search.worldcat.org.
  18. ^"San xiao yin yuan".February 8, 1975 – via IMDb.
  19. ^"Tong Pak Foo dim Chau Heung".July 1, 1993 – via IMDb.
  20. ^"Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang 2 zhi Si Da Caizi".July 8, 2010 – via IMDb.
  21. ^"Tong Pak Foo dim Chau Heung 2019".January 25, 2019 – via IMDb.
  22. ^"National Palace Museum Presents Masterpieces of National Treasure Grade | Exhibitions | THE VALUE | Art News".TheValue.com.Retrieved2022-07-04.
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