Is the story of Tang Bohu's dotting qiuxiang true or false in history?

Tang Bohu's story of dotting Qiu Xiang Comes from:

"The story of Tang Bohu dotting autumn incense" is widely spread in folklore, so where does this story come from? Does Qiu Xiang really have a person in history? It turned out that the prototype of Tang Bohu's story of dotting Qiu Xiang first appeared in the Ming Dynasty's notebook novels. The Ming Dynasty novelist Wang Tongluo recounted in his "Ear Talk" the story of Chen Yuanchao, another Suzhou talent, which is exactly the same as "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance": Yuan, a young man who is uninhibited, tastes with Keden Tiger Hill, sees the official family from a good posture, laughs and cares for himself, and is pleased. Let people go to his home, serve the fallen, ask for a maid, and keep the second son. Since he was the second son Wen Riqi, his father was greatly dried, and he did not know the yuanye. Having returned from marriage, the second son did not obey, saying, "In the room, only Ru chooses." "It must be a last resort, Qiu Xiangke." "That is, the former met the maid also. The second son, Bai Parents, married. Yuan both married, concubine: "Junfei Tiger Hill meets Ping? "Yes!" "Since the prince is a noble prince, why should he be lowly like this?" "Ru Xi smiled at me, and I can't forget my love ears!"

This story reached the hands of Feng Menglong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it became the "Tang Xieyuan Laughing Marriage" in the "Cautionary Tale". The story of Tang Bohu in the opera, the earliest has the late Ming Dynasty Meng called Shun's miscellaneous drama "A Laugh Before the Flower", and later people felt that "a laugh" was too addictive, and then developed from "one laugh" to "three laughs", and there were Wang Baigu's "Three Laughs" bullets, Zhuo Renyue's "Tang Bohu Dry Golden Flower Fang" miscellaneous drama. After Qianlong and Jiaqing, the words often sung by the critics in various places include "Three Laughs marriage", "Three Laughs New Edition", "Three Laughs and Eight Beautiful Pictures", "Laughing in the Edge" and so on. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, folk began to circulate bullets and opera singing books "Nine Beautiful Figures", and there was a saying that Tang Bohu married 9 beautiful wives and concubines.

The heroine of the story, Qiu Xiang, also has her own person. In Tang Bohu's era, there was indeed a woman named Qiu Xiang who was a bit famous, but she was not the maid of a large family, but the name in the Jinling Wind and Moon Field in the southern capital at that time

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。 Qiu Xiang's real name is Lin Nu'er, the word Jinlan, the number Qiu Xiang. She plays, plays, poems, and paints

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Tong, at that time, was known as "Wuzhong Female Talent". Qiu Xiang was forced to fall into Qing in his early years

Lou, after marrying Liang, there were still some old patrons who came to her, she not only refused, but also painted a painting on the fan called "New Willow Diagram", with the inscription poem:

In the past, the Zhangtai dance was fine

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Ren Jun climbs the young branches.

Now written to Danqingli,

Do not allow the east wind to waver again.

According to the Ming Dynasty's "History of Painting", "Qiu Xiang learned to paint in Shi Tingzhi and Wang Yuanfu, and the pen was the clearest. In the "Jinling Trivia", it is also recorded that Qiu Xiang once learned to paint from Tang Bohu's painting teacher Shen Zhou. Shen Zhou was a quite famous painter in the Ming Dynasty, who painted a Danqing painting for Qiu Xiang and wrote a first word.

Although Qiu Xiang and Tang Bohu lived in the same era, according to research, Qiu Xiang was born in the first year of Ming Jingtai (1450 AD), 20 years older than Tang Bohu, and when Tang Bohu debuted at the age of 16, it was impossible to meet Qiu Xiang on the banks of the Qinhuai River in Jinling and have feelings.