提起唐伯虎,我們肯定會想到「風流才子」及「唐伯虎點秋香」。然而這跟他的真實人生有一些落差,唐伯虎沒有點過秋香,也不是人生勝利組或高富帥的風流才子。細數影響他起伏人生中的故事,從小康家庭成長,因至親驟逝,發憤苦讀尋求功名,然而受洩題案牽連,仕途受阻,為生計只得藉賣畫為生。接著誤入寧王府為幕賓,裝瘋放還,到了晚年多病,窮困潦倒,他其實是歷史上人生際遇最曲折悲慘的文人之一。唐伯虎本是「解元」出身,其詩文書法樣樣精通。繪畫上江南畫派、元代文人山水等,他都認真學習。作品不像隱世淡薄的元代文人畫家,較少「元四大家」清靜、隱士的內涵。他創作風格和其身世、個性、學識、經歷及師承有直接的關聯。因此能自出機杼,打破門戶之見,兼備宋代院派的宏偉氣勢及元代文人畫的秀雅縱逸,作品雅俗共賞,詮釋都市娛樂放蕩不羈的文創美學。唐寅年輕時聰明、自負、狂放又自許風流,是熱衷功名的學霸,想走傳統社會框架的路。然而連串家庭變故加上考場弊案,讓他被排除於官場外,自此賣畫自娛流連於煙花與酒之間。39歲寫《桃花庵歌》:「酒醒只在花前坐,酒醉還來花下眠。半醒半醉日復日,花落花開年復年。但願老死花酒間,不願鞠躬車馬前……」,詩酒自娛,作風更為放蕩。50歲後一首《西洲話舊圖軸》大方率性地承認「醉舞狂歌五十年.花中行樂月中眠」,在舊封建禮教社會中,流露他對功名利祿及封建禮教的嘲弄。
Speaking of Tang Bohu, "The Merry Talent" and "The Love Story of Tang Bohu and Qiuxiang" will definitely come to mind. However, this is far from his real life. Tang Bohu has never had a love story with Qiuxiang, nor is he a rich and romantic talent. Regarding the impact on his life, he grew up in an ordinary family. Because of the sudden death of some close relatives, he studied hard for fame and fortune. However, his career was hampered due to his involvement in the exam leaking case, and he had to sell paintings for a living. Then by chance, he entered Ning Wangfu to hold a job. And then pretended to leave like a lunatic. In his later years, he was frail and sickly, and his family was poor. In fact, he was one of the most tortuous and tragic literati in Chinese history. Tang Bohu was originally a scholar of "Jieyuan" and was proficient in poetry and calligraphy. He seriously studied Jiangnan School of Painting, Yuan Dynasty literati landscape, etc. However his works are not like the literati painters of the Yuan Dynasty who were reclusive and indifferent, and lacked the connotations of the "Four Great Masters of the Yuan Dynasty", which were quiet and hermits. His creative style is directly related to his life experience, personality, knowledge, experience and mentorship. As a result, it is able to break the view of the painting. It has both the grand momentum of the Song Dynasty school and the elegance and elegance of the Yuan Dynasty literati paintings. His works are both elegant and popular, and interpret the cultural and creative aesthetics of urban entertainment. Tang Bohu was smart, conceited, wild and self-assured when he was young. He was a scholar who was keen on fame and wanted to follow the traditional social framework. However, due to a series of family changes and a fraud case in the examination, he was excluded from the officialdom, and since then he has been selling paintings and entertaining himself in the midst of fireworks and wine. At the age of 39, he wrote "Peach Blossom Temple Song": "When you wake up, you only sit in front of the flowers, and when you get drunk, the flowers come to sleep. Half-awake and half-drunk day after day, flowers fall and flowers bloom year after year. Bow before the chariots and horses…". Drinking made him more debauched. After the age of 50, the song "Old Picture Scroll of Xizhou Dialect" generously and frankly admitted that "fifty years of drunken dancing and wild songs. Flowers walking in music and sleeping in the moon". In the old feudal ethical society, he revealed his mockery of fame, fortune and feudal ethics.