"In March, Ariji asked to be made empress. Empress Bo said: "All the princes have the same surname, and the crown prince's mother is made empress." ’”
empress
In Chinese culture, it has a special status. As we all know, in ancient China, the most powerful person was the emperor, and the empress was the right wife of the emperor Ming Media, who can be said to be the person who shared the world with the emperor. according to
Primogeniture system
The son born to the empress is the crown prince, who will inherit the emperor's throne in the future. If the emperor dies early, the empress will become the empress, and if the prince is young, the empress dowager can assist the new emperor in handling political affairs and grasping the power of the state.
Before the Zhou Dynasty, the wives of tianzi were collectively referred to as
"Concubine"
After the Zhou Dynasty, because "hou" had the meaning of a king, the concubine of the Son of Heaven was called hou. After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, it was adopted
"Three Emperors and Five Emperors"
He called himself emperor and established a system of consorts for the emperor's wife to be empresses. Because Qin Shi Huang did not establish an empress in his lifetime, and Qin had a short life, the system of concubines during the Qin Dynasty still needed to be improved. The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that there was a relatively complete and elaborate concubine system, which was followed by successive generations thereafter.
Because the empress is so important and has the opportunity to take over the power of the country, many female politicians have appeared in Chinese history. For example, she stood out in the patriarchal society and became the only female emperor in the ages
Wu Zetian
She was once the empress of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Li Zhi; a famous female politician of the Han Dynasty, the first empress of China,
Lu Lu
, is Henkel Zu
Liu
Empress Liu Bang, after liu Bang's death, she took sole power, abolished the law of holding books, restored the old classics, encouraged folk book collection, and used the art of Lao Zhuang to let the society rest and recuperate, laying a solid foundation for the later rule of Wenjing. It is precisely because the status of the empress is so important that in successive dynasties, in order to prevent usurpation, the empress is generally the daughter of a high-ranking official and noble relative of the country.
There are always exceptions to everything, during the Yuan Dynasty, there was an empress, although she was a foreign beauty, she became the empress of China, and the first thing she did after she ascended the throne was to send troops to destroy her mother country.
This queen is
Odd Queen
。 In 1315, Empress Qi was born into an aristocratic family in Goryeo and was originally named Kudu. Because she was born into an aristocratic family, Empress Qi was well trained from an early age, and she was very good at musical instruments and dance. Coupled with her beautiful looks, smart and clever, she was famous at a young age, and this perfect girl is known everywhere. Then
Korea
As a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty, it maintained a long-term marriage relationship with the Yuan Dynasty. Successive Goryeo kings would marry Mongolian princesses, and the Goryeo Dynasty would also select noble daughters in the country and send them to the Yuan Dynasty as concubines. As one of the most beautiful people in the region, Empress Qi was naturally sent to the Yuan Dynasty by the King of Goryeo.
In the beginning, Empress Qi was just an ordinary tea palace girl. Later, Empress Qi took advantage of Yuan Huizong's drunkenness and was favored by Yuan Huizong. Because she was born very beautiful, with an exotic temperament, and she was scheming. Therefore, He soon charmed Emperor Yuanhuizong, and from then on the king did not reign early. Emperor Yuanhuizong made her a concubine, and later after the first empress was given death, he wanted to make her empress, because the then chancellor Boyan strongly refused to use the low status of Empress Qi, so Yuanhuizong gave up. After the death of the second empress, after the chancellor Boyan was deposed under the pillow wind of Empress Qi,
Yuan Huizong
She was officially made empress.
Because Empress Qi was unusually favored in the Yuan Dynasty, her family arrogance in Goryeo was also increasingly arrogant, not only did not take the goryeo king at that time in her eyes, but even wanted to replace it. The king of Goryeo could not bear it any longer and executed Empress Qi's father and brother's family.
When Empress Qi, who was far away in the Yuan Dynasty, learned of all this, she hated the King of Goryeo in her heart. Anger overwhelmed her sanity, and she encouraged the crown prince at the time, her son, Aeyut Rydara, to send troops to pacify Goryeo to avenge her father, brother, and mother. This was an unusually faint decision, because her son was only a prince at the time, not an emperor, and his wings were not yet fledgling. Moreover, the Goryeo royal family had always been loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, but she instigated the future king of the Yuan Dynasty to attack his loyal courtiers, which really chilled the other vassal states.
Not only that, Empress Qi later wanted to usurp the throne, wanting to kill Yuan Huizong, who had always been extremely fond of her, and support her son to ascend to the throne. She wanted to emulate Lü Hou and Wu Zetian in ancient China and become a female politician who held the power of the world. She sought the help of Xiang Xiang taiping, but was unexpectedly rejected by Xiang Xiang and was scolded. So she held a grudge in her heart and once again used false accusations to kill Xiang Taiping.
Perhaps it was precisely because Empress Qi was in trouble with the government and killed Xianxiang one after another, in 1368, the Ming army attacked the capital, and before her son could send troops to attack Goryeo, her Yuan Dynasty had already been breached, and she had to flee abroad in a panic, the following year
End with hatred
。 Empress Qi's life has been beautiful, bloomed, and fainted, and all the merits are waiting for posterity to comment.
bibliography:
History of Filial Piety
History of the Yuan