No alchemy, no meditation,

Don't plow for businessmen.

Write and sell when you have time.

Don't let the world sin about money!

This poem was written by Tang Yin, a painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty. Tang Yin's name is Bohu, a lay man in Liu Ru, and a native of Wuxian (now Jiangsu). In the eleventh year of Hongzhi (9 1498), he won the first place in the provincial examination. He is a famous painter in Ming Dynasty, and his poems are unique and free and easy. He is informal, especially in his later years, which is often revealed in his poems.