Biographical Details Tang Yin (1470-1523), Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1683). He is better known as “Tang Bohu”, whose life story has become a part of popular lore.
He was born into the merchant class of Suzhou, where his father was a restauranteur, and although lacking social standing, he received an excellent education. He had been smart, but mischievous since he was young. After a success in a small- scale public examination, he had a greed for fame and wealth. He went to the civil service examination of the whole country, but he was innocently implicated in a bribery and was put in jail. He was beaten and treated harshly. After he was released, he converted to Buddhism and called himself "Liurujushi " ( Six similes secular Buddhist devotee ). The " six similes" means that " everything is like a dream, a fantasy, a bubble, a shadow, dew and lightning."
However, he was so poor that he had to return to reality, selling pictures to make a living. He was beset by poverty and illness throughout his life and he died when he was fifty four. His life was tragic. Nevertheless, he was a genius in art. He had been a student of Zhou Chen and Shen Zhou. His basic painting techniques came from Li Tang, Guo Xi, Li Cheng and Zhou Chen. Tang Yin was talented in painting landscape, human figures and flower-and-bird. He was honored as the Four Great Masters in the Ming Dynasty with ShenZhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying.
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