Recently, the costume drama "Daming Style" starring Tang Wei, Zhu Yawen and others is being broadcast. This drama is adapted from Lian Jingzhuyi's novel "Chronicle of the Six Dynasties", which tells the story of a man named Sun Ruowei who went through the Five Emperors and Six Dynasties in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. The role of Sun Ruowei is based on the real historical figure Ming Xuanzong Xiaogongzhang Empress Sun Shi. The real her in history is quite different from the image of sincerity, frankness, affection and righteousness presented in the play.
Sun's date of birth is unknown, but the history books record that she was a native of Zouping, Shandong, and her father was Sun Zhong, the chief bookkeeper of Yongcheng County. She has been smart and beautiful since childhood. It just so happened that Empress Akihito's mother, Lady Peng Chengbo, was also a native of Yongcheng, who often entered and exited the palace, and said in front of Empress Zhang that the Sun clan was very virtuous. With her recommendation, the Sun family, who was about ten years old, was able to enter the palace.
At that time, Zhu Di asked Empress Zhang, who was then a crown princess, to personally teach the etiquette in Sun's palace, which was enough to see the importance Zhu Di attached to this granddaughter-in-law. Soon, Zhu Zhanji was married, and the Jining Hu clan, that is, the later Empress Hu, was a concubine, while the Sun clan was only a concubine. For this reason, Lady Peng Chengbo often complained to Empress Zhang, but Empress Zhang was virtuous and virtuous, and did not speak about it.
In the process of getting along day and night, Sun Shi and Zhu Zhanji also accumulated deep feelings. In the first year of Xuande, Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne as emperor, and according to the old etiquette system, the Hu clan was made empress, and the Sun clan was crowned as a noble concubine. The origin of the Sun family can be said to be expensive when the mother relies on her son. She first gave birth to a daughter to Zhu Zhanji, and then to Zhu Qizhen, the eldest son of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming. Empress Hu, on the other hand, gave birth to only two daughters. With the crown prince, Emperor Xuanzong's favor for the Sun clan was even higher.
Later, Emperor Xuanzong forced Empress Hu to give up her position as lord of the harem on the grounds that She was childless. In order to abolish it, he also summoned his ministers to discuss, claiming that he had a son after he was over thirty years old, and that he had a mother and a son since ancient times, but what should the empress do? At the same time, he also listed some of Empress Hu's faults. Sun Shi had been coveting the empress's position for a long time in his heart, but he pretended to resign: "After the empress is well, she will definitely be able to give birth to a prince." ”
In the third year of Xuande, Empress Hu was deposed and retired to Chang'an Palace, where Sun Shi took over the empress's throne and unified the harem. Empress Hu was deposed, and Sun Shi exerted a lot of strength behind her back, blowing a lot of wind in front of Emperor Xuanzong. If you don't want to squeeze out Empress Hu, how can the Sun clan get the throne? Empress Zhang took pity on the Hu clan and often summoned her to live in the Qingning Palace, and when the inner court feasted, she also let her sit on top of the Sun clan. In this regard, the Sun clan was very dissatisfied, knowing that he was the queen of a country, and the Hu clan was only a wasted queen, why did he sit above himself?
Ten years after Xuande, Emperor Xuanzong died. The following year, Sun's son Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, so she was honored as empress dowager. In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen ignored the persuasion of Yu Qian and others, insisted on marching in person, and went to fight against the invading Walla, only to be captured, and the Ming Dynasty fell into an unprecedented crisis. Sun Shi listened to Yu Qian's advice, stuck to the capital division, and let the shuzi Zhu Qiyu take the throne, which gradually stabilized the situation.
The son was captured, and the Sun clan went around collecting treasures in an attempt to use them as a ransom to welcome back their son. When Zhu Qizhen returned to the Ming Dynasty, he had already changed dynasties, and who would not like power? Therefore, Zhu Qiyu did not return the throne to him, but also put him under house arrest. A few years later, Zhu Qiyu died, and Zhu Qizhen took the opportunity to unite with the ministers of the DPRK and Central China to launch a coup d'état and regain the throne.
In the sixth year of Tianshun, Sun Shi died and was buried with Emperor Xuanzong in Jingling. Although she was in trouble with the Ming Dynasty, she abandoned the proposal of some ministers in the central government to move the capital to Nanjing, and stuck to the Beijing Division, successfully defending the rule of the Ming Dynasty. However, her methods against Empress Hu, coupled with allowing the eunuch Wang Zhen to cause chaos in the government and sit idly by, allowed herself to be criticized by later generations and was called "a generation of demon queens".