preface
As we all know, China has been a patriarchal society for thousands of years, which is actually not a particularly good thing for our female compatriots. However, we need to pay attention to the fact that this matter is not only happening in China, but also in the whole world. For example, our neighbor South Korea is known for the inequality between men and women, and in the United Kingdom, women are allowed to wear pants only in the last century.
It can be seen from this that the struggle for women's rights and the development of the affirmative action movement are still a major figure in our century. However, it is in our rather conservative country that there has been a female emperor, that is, Emperor Wu! Although, in our long history, female rulers have emerged in an endless stream, such as Lü Hou of the Han Dynasty, Empress Liu of the Song Dynasty, and Lafayette Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, although they have also done things similar to "emperors", but they do not have the title of "emperor" after all.
Confucius Ziyun: "If the name is not correct, the speech is not smooth." "
This sentence has always limited their behavior, so what kind of a woman is Wuhou? The huge discovery of the ancient tomb in Shaanxi revealed the true face of the female emperor Wu Zetian and let the experts inhale a cool breath
1. Born a saint and Wu is the emperor
What was Emperor Wu able to become emperor by what? Many people gave what they thought was the answer. For example, Lin Yutang wrote in the "Biography of Emperor Wu": "He is really a shameless and selfish woman. Her ambitions shocked everyone, and her freshness and sanity had never been seen before among female rulers! "
In fact, the person who holds this negative attitude is not only Lin Yutang alone, but many people think that Emperor Wu is a guy who is a chicken Si Chen.
The "Records of History" records: "Zhou Gongyun: 'The great harm of the country is also the great harm of the country.'" '"
So many male officials believed that she was an evil woman, and her presence would threaten the Li Tang Dynasty. What are the facts? They were right, and soon after, the empress did indeed end the Li Tang Dynasty, so why did she say so? Because she removed the name of Tang and changed it to Zhou. The reason why it was changed to Zhou was because she believed that the ancestor of their martial family was the Duke of Zhou, and she changed her name to Zhou to tell the people that she had the right to rule the world.
2. The truth is hard to find, buried deep in the wasteland
History records that in order to become a righteous emperor, Emperor Wu actually killed her own son, which is an incredible thing, why is it so surprising? The reason is very simple, the so-called tiger poison does not eat children, the empress in order to achieve her own goals, even her own son to sacrifice, this is not a contrary thing to heaven? Is it any wonder that many people hate her?
But what about the actual situation? Is she really so cold-blooded? The history books of the ancients are all subjective, and it is difficult to guarantee that they are not able to denigrate the only female emperor! However, in a tomb excavated in the 1990s, we discovered the true face of the empress.
The owner of the tomb was a Tang Dynasty official named Yan Zhuang. His tombstone bears the cause of his own death, as well as the cause of death of the then emperor Li Hong, who was the empress's biological son. Surprisingly, the time of death of the two people was not even a week apart, and what was even more surprising was that the cause of death of the two people was exactly the same.
History records the short life of the emperor named Li Hong, who was the son of Emperor Wu. But because his personality was not like his mother's, and because he had tried to get rid of the empress's control, he was poisoned by the empress, and the tomb proved correct in the history books.
3. Chicken Si Chen, Hui Pi strong enemy
In order to consolidate his rule, Emperor Wu actually killed his own son. In order to make others dare not oppose her, she even tried to sweep away her son's henchmen and cut the grass and roots, which was a very sinister practice. Since then, everyone in the DPRK and China has been uneasy, and when the powerful Khitans appeared on the frontier, she even found that she had no one to use!
What the hell is going on? It turned out that the talented people, the Wu Emperor did not dare to use, and the people who the Wu Emperor dared to use, it is bound to be some incompetent people who are looked down upon. If this is the case, then they must be useless when a strong enemy invades.
We can find that because women in ancient times were in a disadvantageous position, they were not considered useful by men, so women often did everything in their power to gain the right to rule the country, which inevitably led to the weakening of the country. This is a very regrettable thing, and I hope that this kind of tragedy will not occur in the future society.