Humanistic perspective
Edited the I Nine Song
In the history of China, there have been many empresses, and each empress has a different experience. There was an empress, there are many records, she is the longest-lived empress in Chinese history, she lived through two dynasties and six emperors, lived to the age of 84.
Wang Zhengjun, many people may not be familiar with her, but talk about her background, you will know how good she is. She was the daughter-in-law of Emperor Xuan of Han (Liu Yijie), the wife of Emperor Liu Yi of Han Yuan, and the mother of Emperor Liu Xiao of Hancheng, and we can see from Wang Zhengjun's background that she was indeed a powerful figure.
In addition, Wang Zhengjun's ancestors were also very powerful, and her father Wang Ban served as a court lieutenant. Judging from the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty, the history of Ting Wei was equivalent to the position of secretary of the Ministry of Justice at that time. However, Wang Banzushang was of great status, and his ancestors were nobles of the Qi guotian clan, and when it reached the Qi king Tian Jian, he was destroyed by the Qin Dynasty.
After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu fengtian jian's grandson Tian An was named "King of Jibei", and in the Chu-Han war, Xiang Yu killed himself at Wujiang, and Tian An lost his fiefdom, but the locals still called him "Wang Jia". Later, Tian An's descendants simply changed their surname to Wang's surname, because Tian An did not do a lot of excessive things when he was in the fiefdom before, so the descendants did not suffer many disasters.
Thus, after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang He gave birth to Wang Zhengjun's father, Wang Ban, although Wang Ban was only a minor official like Ting Weishi, he also had three wives and four concubines, and had four daughters and eight boys. Wang Zhengjun was born to Li Shi, the wife of Wang Banzheng, and she was the second eldest among her siblings.
It is said that on the night of Wang Zhengjun's birth, his mother, Lady Li, dreamed of a round of moon falling into her arms. This sign was that the children born to people at that time must have been extremely expensive. When he grew up, Wang Zhengjun had a meek personality and knew the way of women very well. When Wang Zhengjun was a teenager, she was already a smart girl.
Originally, Wang Zhengjun was promised to a family, but before he could marry him, the person died. Later, he gave Wang Zhengjun Xu to king Dongping as a concubine, but before he could enter the dongping king, he died. Wang Zhengjun's father felt very strange, so he asked someone to divinate Wang Zhengjun, and the fortune teller said, "Because she is in the dream of the moon, so this woman is noble." ”
After Wang Ban listened to the words of the divinators, he carefully cultivated Wang Zhengjun and sent her to the palace when he was eighteen years old. After Wang Zhengjun entered the palace, it was really as Xiang Shi said, and it may also be Wang Zhengjun's good luck. Not long after, he became the wife of Crown Prince Liu Yi, and at that time, there were many concubines in the palace of Crown Prince Liu Yi, but they did not conceive children for a long time. After Wang Zhengjun and Liu Yi were together, she became pregnant overnight.
After the death of Emperor Xuan of Han, the crown prince Liu Yi took the throne, first crowning Wang Zhengjun as a concubine, and three days later Wang Zhengjun was promoted to empress. Although Wang Zhengjun gave birth to a son, Liu Yi was not very good to this wife, and increasingly snubbed Wang Zhengjun.
Although Wang Zhengjun did not get the favor of Liu Yi, at least he had his son Liu Xiao. Who knew that Liu Xiao liked to have fun, so that Liu Yi almost ruined Liu Xiao. Later, considering Wang Zhengjun's prudence, Liu Xiao was not deposed.
After the death of Emperor Liu Yi of the Han Dynasty, his son Liu Xiao took the throne as Emperor Cheng of Han, and Wang Zhengjun's status was once again upgraded and he became the empress dowager. At this time, Wang Zhengjun arranged for his brothers and sisters in his family to serve as officials in the court.
After that, Wang Zhengjun's family power was very large in the dynasty, enough to influence the government. Emperor Hancheng was not in good health since childhood, and coupled with the invasion of bones by wine, he died violently in Zhao Hede's palace. Later, Liu Xin ascended the throne as Emperor Of Han.
After the Han Emperor ascended the throne, he began to squeeze out the power of the Wang Zhengjun family in the dynasty and strengthen the imperial power. The Wang clan's power fell into decline for a time, but this work was not completed by the Han Emperor, who failed to give birth to a son and died.
After the death of Emperor Ai of Han, Wang Zhengjun, who was the empress dowager, regained control of the situation and pushed out his nephew Wang Mang, who, when attending the funeral of Emperor Han, with the support of his aunt Wang Zhengjun, quickly disintegrated Dong Xian's power and forced Zhao Feiyan and Empress Fu, who were deeply hated by Wang Zhengjun, to death.
After Wang Mang came out, he curryed favor with Wang Zhengjun everywhere and gradually grasped the major affairs of the dynasty. After the death of Emperor Hanping, his widow succeeded to the throne, and the ministers of the court asked Wang Mang to emulate the Duke of Zhou and assist King Cheng of Zhou in the story. Wang Zhengjun believed that Wang Mang's approach was undesirable.
However, the ambitious Wang Mang did not pay any attention to Wang Zhengjun's words, and soon after usurped the Han Dynasty to establish a new dynasty, Wang Mang, when asking Wang Zhengjun for the jade seal, was so angry that Wang Zhengjun smashed the jade seal to the ground, and a corner of the jade seal was missing.
On the third day of February (February 3, 13 AD), Wang Zhengjun died at the age of 84, thus completing her brilliant and legendary life.