King Yingzheng of Qin unified China, believing that he was both the Third Emperor and the Five Emperors, so the word Emperor was created as the official title of the supreme ruler of China. Since then, the word emperor has become the highest title of the ruler of society for more than two thousand years, until Puyi abdicated at the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the past two thousand years, more than four hundred emperors have appeared in China, and one of these four hundred emperors is extremely unique, because she is the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history.
This is Empress Wu Zetian, and her name must be familiar, after all, it is really too special. A woman was called emperor in a feudal society where male power was supreme, and succeeded, and the resistance could be imagined. Although posterity has denigrated her, her merits and outstanding abilities cannot be denied, and she also left a wordless monument at the end, making posterity speculate more but do not know the reason. Wu Zetian was brilliant and intelligent, not only had outstanding political ability, but also was involved in literature and history, and was quite poetic.
Quan Tang poems contain her 46 poems, see Zhu Chengbi si, haggard and fragmented for the memory of Jun. "Ruyi Niang" writes the sorrow and sorrow of acacia to the extreme, and the scale is tortuous, clear, subtle, gorgeous and fresh. And among all her poems, there is also a poem that can be called the first crazy poem of the Tang Dynasty, and even Li Bai has to be ashamed of himself. The poem was written in 691, and the year before, on September 9, the first year of the Zai Dynasty (690), Wu Zetian ascended the Zetianmen Tower and changed the Tang to Zhou.
In 671, the year after she ascended the throne, a minister attempted to rebel and invited Wu Zetian to go to Shangyuan (Shenduyuan) to admire the flowers in the name of a hundred flowers blooming. The name is Enjoying Flowers, but he actually wants to murder Wu Zetian and win the world. Wu Zetian agreed to this, but the empress at that time was clear and judgmental, and soon saw that something was wrong and calculated. I also suddenly had the inspiration to write poetry, and I wrote like a god, and I wrote it into a majestic and magnificent flower-inducing poem - "La Ri Xuan Zhao Xing Shang Yuan".
The full text is as follows: Ming Dynasty Tour Shangyuan, Fire Rush Spring Knowledge. The flowers are hairy overnight, and they don't wait for the wind to blow. Strangely, in the early morning of the day of La, precious flowers were planted all over the Shangyuan and opened overnight. Wu Zetian arrived at the Shendu Garden surrounded by the masses, and after seeing the hundred flowers blooming, the masses were impressed. The courtiers who wanted to rebel also thought that this was the meaning of heaven, so they did not dare to act rashly. In this way, Wu Zetian, the empress soldier, calmed down a rebellion without bloodshed, of course, this is also for a reason.
However, today I will not talk about this reason, but to talk about the poem written by the empress when she was most proud, "La Ri Xuan Zhao Xing Shang Yuan". This poem is concise, crisp, fluent in language, and clear in theme, which can be called a superior work. It seems to read that you can see the wisdom of the empress to see everything, resolute and decisive, and has the courage to command everything. The empress has just ascended the throne, and naturally needs to establish authority, and this poem shows her majesty and supreme dignity that dominates everything.
The whole poem writes about the wonders of the hundred flowers blooming in the eight festivals of Lapa Festival, and the flowers must be sent overnight, not waiting for the wind to blow. Its boldness, majestic momentum, and majestic style are inspiring, revealing the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and reflecting the obscene power of the emperor's despotism. Li Bai's poetry is untamed, but Wu Zetian's poetry is crazy about the supremacy of the emperor's imperial power, and the two are different in comparison. Of course, it is also the identity of the author who determines the writing of poetry, and aside from all this, it is also a rare piece of poetry in the eight verses of Wing La.
In addition to this first wild poem, Wu Zetian also has many poems that are very well written, but what she likes most should be "Ruyi Niang". This poem describes her relationship with Li Zhi, and it is this poem that brings her back to the palace, and she often silently recites this poem in her later years. When she always recited this poem silently, she was thinking of Li Zhi, and she finally asked that she must be buried with Li Zhi and accompany her as an empress.
In fact, wu Zetian's life has also happened a lot of stories, but also full of controversy, after all, her era inherited the "rule of Zhenguan", the next Qi "Kaiyuan prosperous world", and the only female emperor.