From thousands of years of feudal social history, the status of women has always been very low, influenced by the idea of male superiority and female inferiority, and men are regarded as the basis for survival. Some people are born in a rich family and will enjoy a good life, but after adulthood, it is difficult to avoid the fate of marriage. It is no exaggeration to say that women almost always have difficulty in mastering their own destiny, drifting freely in the promotion of social trajectories. Today we are talking about an empress who also cannot control her destiny, the Empress Shangguan of the Han Zhao Emperor, even if she has wealth and glory that is difficult for others to reach, but her life is full of ups and downs. She is the youngest queen in history with a difficult fate, becoming an empress at the age of 6, and still being a complete body at the age of 52 until her death.
In fact, in the later years of Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, his favorite prince was his youngest son Liu Fuling, and he was made his heir. In order to avoid the phenomenon of harem dictatorship, the emperor gave the heir's mother to death early to avoid the trouble, and gave the son to his sister the eldest princess to raise. Shangguan was the granddaughter of the Great General and the granddaughter of Sima Da, and such a birth was destined to shoulder an extraordinary mission. Sure enough, when she was 6 years old, she entered the palace and became Liu Fuling's concubine, and a few months later she was crowned empress.
The Shangguan family had the support of the Empress of the Middle Palace, and they wanted to continue to win over the eldest princess to strengthen their own power. There was an intermediary in the exchanges, Ding Wairen, who had the greatest merit, so the Shangguan family wanted to seek a knighthood for it. At that time, it was impossible to be crowned a marquis without meritorious service, so he went to ask sima da, originally thinking that he had a relationship to do things, but he did not expect to be rejected. Since then, Sima Da has become the enemy of the two families.
Not long after, the two families conspired to prepare for a coup d'état and get rid of Sima Da. However, sima who did not think that as an old minister had already noticed it, set a trap to sweep them all away, and the entire clan of the Shangguan family was wiped out, and when this news reached the palace, the empress was very sad and uneasy. But after all, she was the granddaughter of Sima Da, so she was left with her life and continued to be empress. The emperor was also a wise man, and he knew that Sima Dai was fierce and fierce, and he did everything to the extreme, so he continued to be kind to Sima Da, while avoiding the expansion of foreign relations, and did not let the empress conceive a child from beginning to end, until the emperor left or was innocent.
After the emperor's death, he left no heirs, so Sima Da, together with the Hundred Officials, promoted Liu He to be crown prince and immediately made him ascend to the throne, at which time Shangguan became the empress dowager, and she was only 15 years old. However, Liu He claimed to be the empress dowager, faint and incompetent, obsessed with the harem and unable to extricate herself, so she was deposed after 27 days on the throne. Subsequently, Sima Damou sought out Liu Qing (Emperor Xuan of Han) from the clan and made him emperor, and Shangguan was still the empress dowager. Shortly after Emperor Xuan of Han succeeded to the throne, Sima Da died, and the emperor took the opportunity to destroy Sima Manmen.
At this point, the Shangguan clan became an embarrassing existence in the palace, and then lived in simplicity in the palace, only promising to live. Until the death of Emperor Xuan of Han, her health was still very healthy, and she was honored as the empress dowager by the later Emperor Yuan of Han, and remained low-key until her death at the age of 52.