The cause of death of Wu Zetian's daughter was revealed, and the truth was too cruel, so it is no wonder that the history books do not record it
Among the many emperors in ancient Chinese history, it is the empress Wu Zetian who is the most controversial, although she governed the country very well, people live without worries, but when she decided to ascend the throne, she was destined to be criticized by people, of course, people have countless questions about her, the biggest controversy should be the real cause of death of her first daughter, although the TV series rendered a lot, but the facts recorded in the history books are indeed incredible.
There is such a saying about the death of this princess: after Wu Zetian entered the palace for the second time, she was crowned Zhaoyi by Li Zhi, and later gave birth to a princess, when the empress wang who came to be at odds with her came to visit the little princess, and after the empress left, she personally strangled the princess to death, and then covered the princess with a quilt, just when the emperor also came to visit the princess, then she pretended that nothing had happened, greeted the emperor, and when she opened the quilt and found that the princess had died, this was the emperor who asked who had come to see the princess, and the maid replied that it was the empress. So the Wu clan cried and made trouble, and Empress Wang did not have any witnesses, so after the emperor was deposed in anger, the Wu clan later became the lord of the middle palace. Moreover, this statement is in the Song Dynasty Sima Guang and Ouyang Xiu compiled some relevant records in the "Zizhi Tongjian", and the credibility of this history book is very high, so this statement should be true, and 10 years after the death of the princess, the Wu clan added a nickname to the princess "Si", to know that in ancient times this word represents repentance, so what does it mean that this word is added to the child who died for many years?
When the princess died so young, it was definitely not her who had to be repented, but the birth mother Wu Shi who added her nickname, so it seems that this word has two meanings, one is that Wu Clan regrets killing his daughter in order to ascend to the empress's throne; the other layer is the daughter who misses the death of the mother, and at the same time posthumously named her daughter "Princess Anding", and re-organized a grand funeral, the specifications are comparable to the emperor.
Although Wu Zetian had many children in his life, but only favored the younger daughter, and even the degree of love for the daughter was far higher than that of the princes, it should be known that in ancient times, it was more patriarchal than female, not to mention the imperial family, so it may also be that she gave all the guilt of the eldest daughter to the younger daughter, the history books are generally written by the victors, so there is no record of how the little princess died in the history books of the Tang Dynasty, but through some records, it is still vaguely possible to deduce the real cause of death of the little princess.