Tang Yin. Tang Yin, courtesy name Tang Bohu, was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet of the Ming dynasty period whose life story has become a part of popular lore.
Even though he was born during the Ming dynasty, many of his paintings, especially those of people, were illustrated with elements from Pre-Tang to Song dynasty art. Tang Yin is one of the most notable painters in the history of Chinese art.
He is one of the Four Masters of Ming dynasty, which also includes Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying. His influence on the art of contemporaries, like Cai Han, is notable.
Tang was also a talented poet, and together with his contemporaries Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, and Xu Zhenqing, he was one of theFour Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region. Tang's eccentric lifestyle has prompted storytellers to immortalize him as a trickster character 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 through Suzhou. 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. This story prompted the playwright Three Words by Feng Menglong and the opera The Three Smiles. Tang emerged from the vital merchant class of Suzhou, at a very low economic level of the son of a restaurant operator. Contrary to some account
Even though he was born during the Ming dynasty, many of his paintings, especially those of people, were illustrated with elements from Pre-Tang to Song dynasty art. Tang Yin is one of the most notable painters in the history of Chinese art.
He is one of the Four Masters of Ming dynasty, which also includes Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying. His influence on the art of contemporaries, like Cai Han, is notable.
Tang was also a talented poet, and together with his contemporaries Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, and Xu Zhenqing, he was one of theFour Literary Masters of the Wuzhong Region. Tang's eccentric lifestyle has prompted storytellers to immortalize him as a trickster character 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 through Suzhou. 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. This story prompted the playwright Three Words by Feng Menglong and the opera The Three Smiles. Tang emerged from the vital merchant class of Suzhou, at a very low economic level of the son of a restaurant operator. Contrary to some account
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