All along, Wu Zetian has been regarded as the only female emperor in the history of our country, in fact, this statement is one-sided, Wu Zetian is not the only female emperor in the history of our country, in addition to Wu Zetian, there are three women in history who have been emperors, then, who are they?
The first female emperor in history was not Wu Zetian, but a Yuan girl of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but she was not recognized by Zhengshi. During the reign of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, Empress Dowager Hu usurped power, and at that time, northern Wei was in chaos, and the imperial court was also absurd and extravagant. When Empress Dowager Hu came to power, the contradiction between Emperor Xiaoming and Empress Dowager Hu continued to increase, because Emperor Xiaoming's clan killed Empress Dowager Hu's lover, so Empress Dowager Hu had always hated Emperor Xiaoming. The hatred between mother and son eventually escalated into a coup d'état. In 528, Empress Dowager Hu suddenly mobilized a forbidden army to surround the entire palace, and she first sent someone to poison Emperor Xiaoming, and then supported Emperor Ming's daughter Yuanniang to inherit the throne.
The Yuan girl was still infancy, and the courtiers could not tell whether she was male or female, so they supported the Yuan girl to inherit the throne under the threat of Empress Dowager Hu. However, the empress ascended the throne, which was after all against the law of etiquette, in order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, Empress Hu deposed the Yuan girl and instead established Yuan Zhao, the son of Yuan Baohui, the king of Lintao, as emperor. Successive coups d'état in the upper echelons of Northern Wei eventually weakened the central government's control over the localities, and in the same year that Yuan Zhao succeeded to the throne, the general Erzhu Rong, who was leading troops outside, raised an army, he led an army to attack the city of Luoyang, Empress Hu was killed, and the young emperor Yuanzhao, who had just been proclaimed emperor, was also executed by Erzhu Rongshenhe.
After the Northern Wei Yuan girl, there was another female emperor in the history of our country, and she was Chen Shuozhen. Chen Shuozhen was the leader of the rebel army in the early Tang Dynasty, and she was the first female emperor with a name and a surname in the history of our country, and she was also before Wu Zetian.
In the fourth year of Emperor Gaozong's reign, a flood disaster broke out in the Muzhou area of the Tang Dynasty, and at that time, tang Muzhou not only did not open the warehouse to release grain, but even levied a violent campaign. In this case, Chen Shuozhen, a daughter of the muzhou people, led the entire clan to rebel. Chen Shuozhen claimed to be Emperor Wenjia, and she continued to infiltrate other states and counties based on Muzhou, and soon the rebels captured many states and counties of the Tang Dynasty.
Civil unrest broke out, the Tang government was terrified, and in order to quell the civil unrest, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi mobilized heavy troops to surround and suppress the rebels. Under the siege of Tang Yangzhou's assassin Fang Renyu, Chen Shuozhen's rebel army was eventually defeated, and Chen Shuozhen himself was captured by Fang Renyu and brutally killed by him.
The third female emperor was Wu Zetian, and the history books about Wu Zetian's deeds have been recorded, and she was the only female emperor recognized by the zhengshi. During Wu Zetian's tenure, Wu Zhou's national strength reached its peak, and although Wu Zetian hesitated in his later years on the issue of Li Li or Li Wu, she eventually chose to make her third son Li Xian crown prince. In 705, Wu Zhou's old minister Zhang Kamzhi and four other courtiers launched a coup d'état, and in desperation, Wu Zetian had no choice but to return power to Li, and in the same year, Wu Zetian died of illness.
The last female emperor in the history of our country was yelü Pu, the Chengtian Emperor of the Western Liao. Yelü Pusu was the fourth emperor of the Western Liao, after the death of Emperor Renzong of Xiliao, Yelü Pusu assisted the crown prince Yelü Zhilugu to succeed to the throne, because Yelü Zhilugu was young, so Pusu completed the temporary regency, she called herself the Emperor of Chengtian, and listened to the government.
Yelü Pusuquan is a very rich and strategic woman in the history of the Western Liao, she is absurd and lustful, but also quite scheming, when Pu Suquan was alive, she had an affair with her lover Xiao Pugu only Shali, in order to pursue selfish desires, she even joined forces with her lover to kill her husband Xiao Duolu without poisoning. Xiao Duolu did not die, which eventually caused civil unrest in the Western Liao, and in 1178, the Western Liao power minister Xiao Huili suddenly launched a coup d'état, he led the forbidden army to kill the powerful Yelü Pusu, and restored the young emperor Yelü Zhilugu as emperor. Because Jeroboam's reputation was so bad, later historians did not recognize this female Son of Heaven.