Tang Yin was a famous Ming Dynasty Chinese painter and poet whose works can be seen in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tang Yin was a famous Ming Dynasty Chinese painter and poet whose works can be seen in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Wee Kek Koon
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The tale of Tang Bohu, the Ming dynasty tiger who was a poet and a painter – and is remembered as a ladies’ man and handsome romantic

  • Born into a merchant family in the Ming dynasty, Tang Yin, now known as Tang Bohu, was a bright scholar wrongly accused of cheating in an exam
  • Unable to work for the government, he turned to poetry and art, and his paintings can be seen in the National Palace Museum in Taipei

Wee Kek Koon
Wee Kek Koon

Updated: 10:49am, 10 Feb, 2022

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Tang Yin was a famous Ming Dynasty Chinese painter and poet whose works can be seen in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Tang Yin was a famous Ming Dynasty Chinese painter and poet whose works can be seen in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
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