When it comes to female emperors in ancient China, everyone will definitely think of Wu Zetian, because Wu Zetian is the first and only female emperor in Chinese history. From being recruited into the palace to becoming a generation of emperors, the things experienced in it are naturally beyond our imagination. Many friends are very curious about what Wu Zetian looks like, what kind of appearance women, can walk from the harem to the top of the court, today we will introduce it to you. A Buddha statue reveals the 48-year-old Wu Zetian's appearance: his face is rounded, and his eyebrows have the aura of an emperor.
Wu Zetian entered the imperial palace at the age of fourteen, when he was only a young talent. Before entering the palace, Wu Zetian was a lady from a merchant family, and her father met Li Yuan of Tang Gaozu by chance, and the Wu family had given material and economic help when Li Yuan was opposed to Sui, so Li Yuan gave Wu Zetian his father an official position and title after the incident, and his father officially changed from his original landlord status to a bureaucrat, and Wu Zetian also became a child of a famous family.
Later, after Wu Zetian's father died, he did not expect that his cousins were very indifferent to her, and he also used his hands and feet on his mother many times, so he and his mother moved to Chang'an. Later, when Tang Taizong heard that Wu Zetian was talented, he recruited the 14-year-old Wu Zetian into the palace and gave Wu Zetian the name of "Wu Mei".
Regarding Wu Zetian's appearance, Tang Gaozong once praised Wu Zetian's beauty in person, saying that Wu Zetian's appearance was full of nobility and was as dignified as a bodhisattva. Wu Zetian responded to Tang Gaozong's praise, not at all modest, and bluntly suggested that Tang Gaozong excavate a Buddha statue for her on Longmen Mountain, when the Buddha statue was built, Wu Zetian was 48 years old, so we can basically infer the appearance of Wu Zetian from the appearance of the Buddha statue at the age of 48.
Just by looking at the Buddha statue, we can clearly see the elegant temperament of Wu Zetian's grace and magnificence, the beauty of his appearance when he was young can be imagined, the face shape is round, and the eyebrows have the aura of the emperor, and the small mouth is small, which meets the criteria for the selection of beautiful women under the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty. Many people think that Wu Zetian can climb to a high position, mainly because she is fierce enough. However, at the beginning of entering the palace, if you want to get the emperor's appreciation, your appearance must be very prominent.
With the stepping stone of beauty, Wu Zetian will definitely have a lot smoother on the road in the future, in order to seize power, some people say that she later killed her own daughter with a cruel heart, and married the empress Dowager who was kind enough to see her, and at the same time used her power to kill many important figures of the Li family, such as Li Xian, Li Dan and others.
In history, there have been praises and demeans to Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian is indeed very prominent in politics, and he is a fierce character with extreme means. Because we all know that during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Wu Zetian actually did not have much power, so Wu Zetian targeted Li Zhi, let Li Zhi be madly fascinated by her, and personally took Wu Zetian, who had been ordained as a nun, back to the palace and made Wu Zetian empress. After that, Wu Zetian began to accumulate power, laying a solid foundation for future succession, and it has to be said that she is a powerful emperor and a powerful woman.