Tang Yinyuan

The garden has regular courtyards, simple buildings and quiet scenery

Tang Yinyuan

Tangyin garden, also known as Tangbohu culture garden, is a classical garden building built in Ming Dynasty. Located at 146 Jiefang West Road, southwest of Suzhou ancient city, it is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province, with a history of more than 400 years. It is the most talented place in the south of the Yangtze River. Tang Yin Garden is the only garden in Suzhou that mainly displays Tang Bohu's artistic life and the four painting and calligraphy works of Ming Dynasty. It is a necessary place to learn about Tang Yin culture, Wu culture and Chinese painting and calligraphy culture in Suzhou.

Brief introduction of Tangyin garden in Suzhou

Tang Yin (1470-1523) was a famous calligrapher, painter and litterateur in Ming Dynasty. In painting, Tang Yin is good at landscape painting, but also painting figures, especially ladies. His brushwork is elegant, delicate and elegant. He is known as "Tang painting", which is highly praised by later generations. Works handed down from generation to generation include the painting of autumn wind and Wanfan, the painting of marriage of the first generation, and the painting of beautiful ladies with hairpin, etc. Tang Bohu is full of artistic talent. His poetry, calligraphy and painting are known as the three wonders. Together with the famous painters Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Qiu Ying at that time, Tang Bohu is known as the "four masters of Ming Dynasty". There are "complete works of Liuru Jushi" and "painting Manual of Tang Yin" handed down from generation to generation. Tang Bohu died at the age of 54. Tang Yin Garden, also known as Tang Yin tomb, is located on Jiefang West Road in Suzhou City, covering an area of nearly 10000 square meters. It has a history of more than 400 years. At the time of Tang Yin's death, his family was poor, so he was buried in Taohuawu's former residence. It was only in the 22nd year of Jiajing that he was moved to the present site.

In 1644, when Lei Qijian, Mao Zijin and other literati saw that Tang Yin's cemetery was deserted and trampled by cattle and sheep, they sighed bitterly: "all those who have read Tang Bohu's works for thousands of years are friends. Why should they keep pace with each other?" It is funded renovation, "Li Jue Feng Shu", "structure number Ying and ancestral temple". In 1801, Tang Zhongmian, a native of Changsha, came to Suzhou to be the magistrate of Wu County and rebuilt the tomb of Tang Yin as an ethnic group. The inscription "Tomb of Jieyuan in Ming and Tang Dynasties" is covered with a stone pavilion and a stone wedge.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, in 1957 and 1958, the Suzhou Municipal Commission of cultural relics rebuilt the tomb of Tang Yin. At that time, the stone pavilion and tombstone erected by Tang Zhongmian still exist. In addition to renovating the base, a new stone square was built at the beginning of the tomb Road, engraved with "Tang Bohu's tomb, with its back engraved with the name of Wankou", and planted dozens of peach blossoms and more than 20 pines and cypresses.

In 1955, the government renovated the tomb of Tang Yin, and the next year it was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. However, during the cultural revolution, Tang Yin's cemetery was destroyed, with no tombstones, stone pavilions and stone squares left but a pile of wasteland tombs. In 1985, Suzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee restored the tomb again. The following year, Liuru hall, mengmo hall and other halls were built in the south of the tomb, which was officially opened to the public. The layout of Tangyin garden is well arranged and elegant.

Since May 2008, the cultural security office of Suzhou City has overhauled Tangyin garden. Over the past few months, the roof has been renovated, the power lines have been rearranged, the walls have been raised, the doors, windows and pillars have been repainted, and the false square bricks on the ground have been replaced by real ones To solve the problem of low-lying land, the drainage system here has been re laid and special pumps have been equipped. In addition to transforming the "hardware", this overhaul will also upgrade the "software". For example, some official and unofficial history materials about Tang Bohu will be displayed to make a realistic sand table of Tang Yin's former residence. In addition, it is also envisaged to increase the entertainment content, such as telling the story of "Tang Bohu points the fragrance of autumn" through Pingtan, so as to increase the fun of the garden!

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The first peach blossom Pavilion

Taohuaxian hall has three main rooms. Because Tang Bohu was born in the Ming Dynasty, we imitated the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, with six painted bamboo doors. This hall is not very big, because Tang Yin's tomb belongs to the cultural relics protection unit of Jiangsu Province, so we must respect the real situation of history. Although Tang Bohu has a great reputation, his family is poor. Especially in his later years, he is very poor, so the hall is not very big. There's a plaque on it. It's called

Why is it called taohuaxian museum? When Tang Bohu was 38 years old, he saved some money by selling calligraphy and paintings. In Taohuawu, north of Suzhou City, on the ruins of Zhangzhuang bamboo villa, a former Song Dynasty man, he imitated Tao Yuanming's Taohuayuan, and built a rural villa. The villa he built was not a pavilion, because he didn't have much money. In fact, it was just a few elegant thatched cottages, bamboo pavilions, Zhuxi hall and nymphal butterfly house. Outside the garden, a clear stream meanders through, a willow tree and a peach tree. Because Tang Bohu likes peach blossom best. A medicine fence was set up. After dredging, the Shuanghe pond planted lotus and raised fish. After the completion of Taohuawu villa, Tang Bohu was very satisfied. He named it Taohua nunnery. He was the owner of Taohua nunnery and wrote the song of Taohua nunnery. [Taohua temple in Taohua Wu, Taohua fairy in Taohua temple. The Peach Blossom Fairy grows peach trees and folds flower branches as wine money. When he wakes up, he only sits in front of flowers. When he is drunk, he still needs to spend time to sleep. Day after day, flowers bloom and fall year after year. I wish I would die old in the room of flowers and wine instead of bowing to chariots and horses; chariots and horses are expensive, while wine and flowers are poor. If wealth is compared with poverty, one is on the plain and the other is in the sky; if poverty is compared with chariots and horses, he has to drive me to leisure. Others laugh at me for being crazy, but I laugh at others for not being able to see through it. I don't see the tombs of Wuling heroes and hoe the fields without flowers and wine. 】Today, we have moved the artistic conception of Tang Bohu's former residence Taohua nunnery to here, so it's named Taohua fairy hall.

The second Hall mengmo Hall

This hall is named mengmo hall. Why is it named mengmo hall? We have to introduce Tang Bohu's life first. Tang Bohu was gifted and diligent in his studies since he was a child. When he was 16 years old, he took part in the government examination of Suzhou at that time. He was a scholar when he passed the examination. He not only won the scholar, but also won the first place in the examination, which is called "desk". When he became a student member of Suzhou government, he was the first in his middle school. It was a great thing in the era of imperial examination. Tang Bohu became the center of discussion and admiration of the whole city. At the age of 29, Tang Bohu went to Nanjing to take part in the rural examination of Yingtian thirteen Fu. He not only won the examination, but also won the first place, which is called Jieyuan. So people at that time also called him Tang Jieyuan. When he was 30 years old, he was full of ambition to go to Beijing to take part in the "conference examination" in order to further gain fame. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Beijing, an unexpected storm occurred during the conference examination. Someone started to play the emperor, saying that the examiners had leaked the examination questions in advance. The court attached great importance to this case and sent people to investigate it. In the process of investigation, Tang Bohu was implicated and sent to Dali temple for trial. Dali temple at that time was equivalent to the Supreme People's Procuratorate now. After the trial, the examiners were dismissed and investigated, and Tang Bohu also had a ten month lawsuit. Later it became clear that this was purely a case of injustice and falsehood. In fact, it was a party struggle between the officials of the imperial court, and Tang Bohu was a victim. Although he was released after ten months of unjust lawsuit, Tang Bohu's official career was hopeless and his high official position was hopeless. Nowadays, the unjust, false and wrong cases can be vindicated. But at that time, it was a feudal society and a case decided by the emperor. No one could turn it over. On the contrary, Tang Bohu was deposed as a petty official in Zhejiang Province. He never took office because he could be killed or humiliated.

In this way, Tang Bohu suffered a heavy blow on the road of his life. After he returned to Suzhou, he was always depressed, drowned his worries with wine, and even abandoned himself. In this case, some of Tang Bohu's good friends were all gifted scholars in Wuzhong at that time. Zhu Zhishan and Wen Zhengming advised Tang Bohu. Under the persuasion of these good friends, Tang Bohu perked up again. After that, he was determined to devote himself to poetry, calligraphy and painting.

At the age of 31, Tang Bohu, like Sima Qian, left everything behind and made a journey of thousands of miles, covering seven provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian and Zhejiang. After ten months, he had a good view of the famous mountains and rivers in the south of China, which played a significant role in his outstanding artistic achievements. It is said that Tang Bohu traveled a thousand miles to Fujian Province. There is a Jiuli Lake in Xianyou County, Fujian Province. There is a Jiuli Temple beside the Jiuli lake, which worships the Jiuli fairy. According to folklore, the Jiuli fairy is very good at holding dreams. Some literati and poets spend the night here, hoping that the Jiuli fairy can hold a good dream at night. When Tang Bohu arrived here, he naturally had to stay up all night. Sure enough, that night, the nine carp fairy entrusted Tang Bohu with a dream. In the dream, he didn't say anything, but he gave him a gift of precious Mo Wan Ding. Since then, Tang Bohu has always felt that he is writing poems, writing articles or painting. In memory of this dream, he built a dream Pavilion in the Taohua nunnery villa he later built. Today, we moved to this place and named it mengmo hall. This is the origin of mengmo hall.

The third hall Liuru Hall

This hall is called Liuru hall. Why is it named liurutang? Because when Tang Bohu was middle-aged, he began to believe in Buddhism and study Buddhist Scriptures because of the society's indifference, the tease of fate, the poverty of life and the strong thought of being born. He looked like a detached man and was really angry with the world. He called himself a Buddhist. [Liuru] it comes from the Vajra Sutra in the Buddhist sutra. There are a few words in Vajra Sutra [all the Dharma is like a dream, a bubble, a dew and an electricity, so we should observe it like this]. It means time flies, life is short, a person's life in the world is like

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