Who is never a joke in the eyes of others?

Tang Yin's Song of the Peach Blossom Temple

Taohuawu Taohua Temple, Taohuaguan Taohuaxian; Peach Fairy cultivates peach trees, picks them and drinks them.

When I wake up, I just sit in front of the flowers, and when I am drunk, I come to sleep under the flowers; Half awake and half drunk day after day, flowers bloom year after year.

I would rather die of old age than bow before horses and chariots; Cars and horses are rich and interesting, and hops are poor.

If wealth is compared with the poor, one is in peace and the other is in heaven; If you compare poverty to horses and chariots, he will have to drive away my leisure.

Others laugh that I am too crazy, and I laugh that others can't see through it; There are no graves of Hao Jie in Wuling, no flowers, no wine, and no hoes to plow the fields.

This poem refers to two completely different lifestyles in two weeks with the words "the old man dies after drinking wine" and "bowing before the horses and chariots". By comparing the gains and losses of wealth and poverty, the vulgar and negative side of Tang Bohu's Ordinary Truth is revealed. As soon as this poem came out, it was also considered as the most helpless poem in the Ming Dynasty. The homonym of "peach" and "escape" in A Tale of Peach Blossom Garden may also imply that Tang Bohu wants to escape from the tragic side of reality and live a leisurely but vulgar life.

Extended data

Tang Yin (1470- 1523), the word Bohu, is a native of Wuxian County, Suzhou, Nanzhili, No.6, a layman, the owner of the Peach Blossom Temple, Tang Sheng of Lu State, a monk and so on. Famous painters and writers in Ming Dynasty.

It is said that he was born in Chenghua, Ming Xianzong for six years. He is cynical, brilliant and famous for his poems. He, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming and Xu Zhenqing are also called "Four Talents in Jiangnan (Four Talents in Wumen)", and his paintings are even more famous in the world. He, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming and Chou Ying are also called "four outstanding men of Wu".

His poetry collections include Song of Patience, Wu Shangguan's Letter, Song of the Four Seasons in the South of the Yangtze River, Song of the Peach Blossom Temple, Song of the New Year Festival, Leisure Love Song and so on.

Ancient Poetry Network-Introduction to Tang Yin