"Shangyang lonely locks the heavy door, and the wind sends lotus incense to accompany the supreme." In ancient China, there was such a strange woman, she went out of the house, served two emperors, and finally became the emperor herself, she is Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in the history of our country.
In that era of male superiority and female inferiority, the process of Wu Zetian becoming emperor was undoubtedly arduous. In order to hold power, she is even willing to use her own children as a stumbling block. This has caused her to be criticized for thousands of years.
But how could Wu Zetian, such a domineering person, care about the comments of posterity? After Wu Zetian died, he was buried in Zhaoling, and there were two major miracles in Wu Zetian's tomb, one was a wordless monument, and the other was a headless man. After many explorations, experts finally gave an explanation.
Wu Zetian's exploits and drawbacks
"曌" takes the meaning of the sun and the moon as the void, which is a character created by Wu Zetian himself, and Wu Zetian is also named with a thorn character, which can also see how domineering she is as the first female emperor in China. And Wu Zetian's domineering spirit and desire for power have also become a major reason for his criticism by posterity.
In fact, from the perspective of historical development trajectory, Wu Zetian can be described as a generation of Ming Jun. "Pro-Xianchen, Far Little People, this ancestor han so Xinglong also; pro-little people, YuanXianchen after that Han so decadent also." During the Three Kingdoms period, Mr. Kong Ming used this sentence to explain what a Ming Jun was.
During his fifteen-year reign, Wu Zetian reused many famous ministers, including Di Renjie, Yao Chong, and Lou Shi. Among them, Wu Zetian especially trusted Di Renjie, who was a rare general and material of the Tang Dynasty.
When he was prime minister, he not only bowed down to exhaustion, but also neglected many policies for Wu Zetian, because of the presence of Di Renjie, Wu Zetian's fifteen years of reign were smooth and the country was safe. In terms of knowing people and doing good deeds, Wu Zetian is worthy of being a Ming Jun.
Secondly, Wu Zetian broke the ancient tradition and allowed women to enter the palace as officials. The most famous talented female official of the Wu Zetian period was the female official who was personally promoted by Wu Zetian, and the Shangguan Wan'er official Bai Neisheren had the name of "Prime Minister of the Towel". Until Emperor Zhongzong of Tang succeeded to the throne, Shangguan Wan'er was also in charge of the internal court and the outer court's decrees.
During the reign of the third Wu Zetian, he opened the dragon gate to the han disciples and warriors in the world, and Wu Zetian created the temple test and martial arts. Before that, even though the imperial examination had always been there, there were not many students in the cold door.
The reason is that most of the candidates who have won the exam and the top eyes are the children of bureaucrats, and many examiners will deliberately suppress in the face of cold students. However, since the creation of the temple test, this behavior has been greatly reduced, as long as there is talent that can be favored by the emperor, it can jump the dragon gate and soar into the sky.
The creation of martial arts has given children who have learned martial arts since childhood and hoped to make meritorious achievements have a chance. Before this, if you wanted to make a meritorious career, you had to start from a small soldier, but the emergence of the martial arts examination gave people who were truly knowledgeable and capable to get the opportunity to show it.
It can be said that these two decisions of Wu Zetian really made contributions to future generations, and also made great contributions to the continuation of the Li Tang Dynasty.
Politically, Wu Zetian not only rewarded Nongsang, but most importantly, she reformed the bureaucratic system. Officials were the lowest officials in ancient China, and most of them managed a street or a few shops. However, as the saying goes, county officials are not as good as the current management, and officials can be said to be indistinguishable in their own jurisdiction.
Cool officials are a common thing in ancient China, they are greedy and pervert the law, deceitful and concealed. And Wu Zetian's biggest act for politics is that she rectified the cool official system. The people would no longer be harassed by these cool officials, and from these aspects, Wu Zetian was indeed called a Ming Jun.
Although Wu Zetian is said to be a generation of empresses, not everything is based on the people of the country. Her desire and pursuit of power makes her cruel to others and to herself.
Not only that, Wu Zetian also supported the noodle head, and repeatedly added officials to his own face head. Wu Zetian's favorite face was Xue Huaiyi, who served as the commander-in-chief of the march many times, and twice repelled the Turks, and was eventually made the Duke of Eguo.
However, Xue Huaiyi himself was pampered and proud, not only robbing the women of the people on the street, but also burning and looting without evil. In the end, he burned the Ming Hall like a death, causing Wu Zetian to be furious and send him to death. After death, the body was returned to the White Horse Temple for cremation.
It can be said that Wu Zetian's life merits are greater than his past, and it is precisely because of this that the Wu zhou ruled by Wu Zetian is called the Zhenguan Relic. It played a good role in carrying forward the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, which can be described as a contribution in the thousands of autumns.
61 headless stone men in front of the tomb
Wu Zetian died in 705 AD, and before his death, he returned the throne to the Li clan, and she did not leave a trace of preferential treatment for the children of the Wu family, and even let Tang Zhongzong bury Qianling as an empress after his death. A generation of empresses has since vanished.
However, there are three wonders in the tomb of Wu Zetian, one of which is the 61 headless stone people in front of the tomb. These stone figures are intact, but they have no heads. It's not like there's a natural disaster at the head gap, which is really strange.
So what are these headless stone people used for? According to many searches, two experts in our country finally solved the mystery of the life of the headless stone man in front of Wu Zetian's tomb. These stone people were not actually set up by Wu Zetian.
Instead, it was set up by Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, and according to the costumes of these stone people, most of these stone people were people from all over the country who came to pay tribute. During the Wu Zetian period, there was no close contact with foreigners, on the contrary, during the Tang Zhongzong period, due to the increasing strength of the Tang Dynasty, many foreign envoys came to visit.
The reason why Emperor Zhongzong of Tang established these stone people was so that future generations could see the prosperity of the dynasty and let others see the strength of Li Tang. This is why Emperor Zhongzong of Tang established these stone people.
The reason why these stone people have no heads, experts have given a possibility, that is, the stolen tomb thieves dug up. Since the Ming Dynasty, tomb robbers have become increasingly rampant, and many imperial tombs have been stolen. But Qianling has never been opened.
Because Qianling was the burial place of the emperors and empresses of the Tang Dynasty, it not only had organs, but also was very strong. Few people were able to open the Qianling tomb group, and these tomb robbers saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, and reluctantly dug up the heads of these stone people.
After all, it is a Tang Dynasty thing, and even stones can sell for a good price. And this also formed a strange scene of stone people without heads, and the reason why they were not all taken away was because these stone people were all fixed to the stone slab and could not be moved at all, nothing more.
epilogue
How many things rise and fall in the thousand autumns are assessed by future generations. Wu Zetian's domineering spirit lies not only in his historical status, but also in his own character.
Wu Zetian's tombstone is a unique emperor's wordless stele in history, and the tombstone is not engraved with merits, gains and losses, and even names. This may also be the reason why many people yearn for Wu Zetian and for revealing the secrets of Wu Zetian.