Wu Zetian is the only universally recognized and well-known female emperor in Chinese history, and the only female empress. She is good at governing the country, recruiting talents, governing the government of the Zhenguan Temple, and opening up the Yuan Dynasty, which can be said to have created an era and influenced the entire Tang Dynasty. It was such a great woman, who died at the age of 82 and was buried in Qianling with Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong. But before that, Wu Zetian did something that was difficult for future generations to understand, that is, he erected a tombstone for himself without a word at all, that is, a wordless stele.
After her death, Wu Zetian did not leave the world to the Wu family, but returned it to the Li family, and she was also buried with Li Zhi after her death, and she also set up a wordless monument for herself, but this wordless monument has always bothered many people. As an empress of a generation, Wu Zetian can be said to be a person who has never come before or after the ancients, and the Tang Dynasty during his reign was incomparably strong and prosperous, and there was more good governance. It is embodied in her vigorous development of the imperial examination system, cracking down on the power of door valves, and consolidating the rule of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, she also stabilized the stability of the frontier and established the Western Regions Capital Protectorate, making the Tang Dynasty's territory unprecedentedly wide. In terms of people's livelihood, Wu Zetian is lightly emerishing and recuperating, which is the prosperity of people's livelihood. It can be said that Wu Zetian's rule was the rule of Shangcheng Zhenguan and the reign of The Lower Qi Kaiyuan, without her, the Tang Dynasty would not have been so prosperous. Therefore, Wu Zetian thought that his merits were great and difficult to express in words, so he simply did not write inscriptions.
The first reason: the credit is too great to write in words
As an empress of a generation, Wu Zetian can be said to be a person who has never come before or after the ancients, and the Tang Dynasty during his reign was incomparably strong and prosperous, and there was more good governance. It is embodied in her vigorous development of the imperial examination system, cracking down on the power of door valves, and consolidating the rule of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, she also stabilized the stability of the frontier and established the Western Regions Capital Protectorate, making the Tang Dynasty's territory unprecedentedly wide. In terms of people's livelihood, Wu Zetian is lightly emerishing and recuperating, which is the prosperity of people's livelihood. It can be said that Wu Zetian's rule was the rule of Shangcheng Zhenguan and the reign of The Lower Qi Kaiyuan, without her, the Tang Dynasty would not have been so prosperous. Therefore, Wu Zetian thought that his merits were great and difficult to express in words, so he simply did not write inscriptions.
The second reason: to prevent future generations from smearing themselves
Although Wu Zetian's achievements are great, she is a woman after all, and in the ancient times when men were superior to women, it was inevitable that she would have the feeling of Ji Ji Si Chen. In order to block the courtiers' leisurely mouths, Wu Zetian used the cool officials Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen in the early days of his reign to make the courtiers submit. The consequence of this was that many ministers were slaughtered, especially the Confucians, who attached great importance to etiquette. Therefore, in order to prevent the Confucians from smearing and distorting herself after her death, she simply did not carve an inscription, and the merits and demerits of the right and wrong were commented on by posterity. Wu Zetian's approach was correct, and since the Confucians gained power after the Southern Song Dynasty, they deliberately smeared it, and even used it to the extreme.
The third kind: Wu Zetian set up a "wordless stele" because he knew that his sins were serious, and he felt that it was better not to write the inscription. Wu Zetian eventually climbed from "talented man" to the position of empress, and later stole the position of emperor. Wu Zetian appointed cool officials, implemented a policy of fear of whistle-blowing and indiscriminate punishment, eradicated dissidents, and made everyone endanger themselves. The most serious thing was that during her reign, she lost the four towns of Anxi in her early years, endangering the country. Therefore, Wu Zetian thought that his sins were deep, so he did not write an inscription.
But after all, what is the element, we are also difficult to determine. Chairman Mao said: Wu Zetian has self-knowledge, and she will not allow her to engrave words on her tablet. Some people have dissected that its original meaning is to accumulate virtue and do immeasurable good deeds, and books are not better than books. Originally, it was Wu Zetian who realized that a person's merits and deeds were right or wrong, and should not be blown by himself, but was still discussed by posterity. Thinking about it carefully, Chairman Mao's statement is the most reasonable, a generation of empress Wu Zetian, her aura is strong, proud of the whole country, and the characteristics and tactics of handling the country are very tough. Therefore, Chairman Mao's statement is even more convincing and wonderful.