"Who said that women are inferior to men, and the scarf does not let the eyebrows be shaved." In ancient China, there were many female heroes Haojie, who left a lot of great achievements in history. Although ancient China was dominated by a patriarchal society, some women gave men an answer - women should be self-reliant.
Throughout the 5,000-year history of China, there was Lü Yan who hung the curtain to listen to the government, and then wu hou founded Wu Zhou. All this tells that women are not weak, they can have more power.
After the death of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gaozu, the power of the Han Dynasty's imperial court gradually passed into the hands of Empress Lü, which is also an example of an earlier female power in China, but Lü Yan appointed foreign relatives, which made the Han Dynasty court disorderly, which is very similar to the later period of Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian's origin
Lü Yan and Wu Zetian have similarities, but there are also differences, such as Wu Zetian was the first female emperor in Chinese history, while Lü Yan only relied on the harem to control the government, and there are fundamental differences between the two.
Wu Zetian's ability to become a female emperor is largely inseparable from her origins and education. Although the Tang Dynasty at that time was the most open and civilized dynasty in Chinese history, there were also many women who were deeply influenced by feudal ideas and did not have the desire to learn independently.
Wu Zetian's father was a samurai and his mother was Yang. The real name of Wu Zetian is not specifically recorded, the name of Wu Zetian was later modified, and the young Wu Zetian was historically known as the Wu clan. The Yang clan married a wealthy samurai and gave birth to three wu sisters.
The Wu clan had several meetings with Li Yuan in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and the samurai Had funded Li Yuan's rebellion, which brought a lot of help to the Li family's anti-Sui in the early years. After the overthrow of the Sui Dynasty and the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, on the merits and rewards, The Samurai Became "One of the Original Conspirators of Taiyuan" and was enfeoffed as the Duke of Guo.
After Li Shimin took power, the Tang Dynasty began the legendary rule of Zhenguan. Although Li Shimin is a generation of Ming Emperors, there are also many rumors in the folk, one of which is the folk rumor of "slaughtering the Wu clan".
It is rumored that during Li Shimin's reign, when he asked the Mandate of Heaven master about the demise of Li Tang's clan, the answer given to Li Shimin by the Mandate of Heaven was that Li Tang died in wu. Because of this sentence, Li Shimin slaughtered the Wu clan without asking the reason, but ignored the martial talents around him.
Li Shimin did not faint as rumored, but the Tang Dynasty was indeed cut off by the Wucai people, who were Wu Zetian. But this is another question, why before Li Shimin's death, Wu Zetian was still a talented person, and her talent was not inferior to that of a man.
This problem is related to his mother, Yang Shi. After the death of Wu Shiyan, Yang and Wu Zetian became orphans and widows, and in this case, Yang began to cultivate Wu Zetian for self-independence, hoping that Wu Zetian could become an independent woman.
When Wu Zetian was young, he was always educated differently from other women's families. Under the intentional cultivation of Yang Shi, Wu Zetian liked to read, had his own views on many things, and gradually developed an extraordinary temperament in the year of cardamom.
In the eleventh year of Zhenguan (638), when Wu Zetian was in the year of cardamom, in this year, Li Shimin heard that Wu Zetian was dignified in appearance and that Zhishu Dali was the daughter of a samurai, so he took Wu Zetian into the harem and gave wupincai, the number of meiniang, commonly known as "Wu Mei niang".
Wu Zetian's talent and appearance are indeed the same as the rumors describe, and Li Shimin is very happy about this, but Wu Zetian has a fatal point, which makes Li Shimin feel uneasy - courageous. During an accompanying ride, Wu Zetian's words shocked Li Shimin.
Li Shimin has a lion donkey, this lion is born proud and delicate, and cannot be subservient to others, and Li Shimin cannot do anything about it. When Wu Zetian saw the lion horse, he said to Li Shimin, "I have another way to tame the lion horse."
Then Li Shimin asked her to give it a try, and Wu Zetian said, "I need three props." One is an iron rod, one is an iron rod and one is a dagger. Li Shimin heard the doorway and secretly worried about Li Tang's future.
After a hundred years, there must be no one in the Li Tang clan who can contain Wu Zetian, coupled with Wu Zetian's superior skills and talents, if Wu Zetian has a lofty position, then the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be overthrown and become a short-lived dynasty, so it is absolutely impossible to indulge Wu Zetian to be big and imprisoned.
The reign of the Empress
History has answered Li Shimin's point of view – and it is. After experiencing a series of obstacles and twists and turns, Wu Zetian gradually became the most powerful person in the Tang Dynasty, and she and Li Shimin's successor Li Zhi were jointly known as the "Second Saint" in the Tang Dynasty.
With the help of Wu Zetian, Li Zhi gradually gained an advantage in the struggle against Xun Gui, gradually eliminating and annexing the Tang Dynasty's foreign nobles, and finally ending with the beheading of the eldest son Wujie, so that the entire power of the Tang Dynasty fell into the hands of Li Tang's clan.
In this regard, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian broke the situation of imperial power turmoil since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Wu Zetian was deeply favored by Li Zhi for working with Li Zhi against the old nobles.
Wu Zetian's authority became more and more inflated, and later because Li Zhi had a serious headwind and could not handle government affairs, he handed over his authority to Wu Zetian. At this time, Wu Zetian, who had all the authority of the Tang Dynasty, became the veritable ruler of the Tang Dynasty.
As Li Zhi's body grew weaker, Wu Zetian's reputation began to grow. In the end, Li Zhi died in the first year of Hongdao (683), and after a series of blood exchanges and disputes, he ushered in a result - Wu Zetian was called emperor and changed the name of the country to Zhou, and later generations called it "Wu Zhou".
After Wu Zetian took power, he began to change blood in the Tang Dynasty court, so that he could use cool officials to impose extremely severe punishment on all those who intended to rebel, and for a time the people in the DPRK were afraid that the early dynasty of the day was the last early dynasty, and even some people would write a suicide note every morning.
The courtiers were very afraid of Empress Wu, but there was one exception, Di Renjie. Di Renjie was deeply trusted and valued by Wu Zetian, and Wu Zetian would think carefully about all the remarks di Renjie complained about. Wu Zetian's trust in Di Renjie was obvious, and he called him "The Elder of the Nation" in front of ordinary people.
Wu Zetian trusted Di Renjie very much, but he did not follow Di Renjie's advice in everything. In the later period of Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian raised two heads, and Wu Zetian and these two heads had sex in the palace, to which Di Renjie once strongly advised Wu Zetian to stay away from lust, and sex would hurt his body.
However, Wu Zetian exposed the teeth in his mouth to Di Renjie and said to Di Renjie: "The new teeth in my mouth are proof that I am still young, and it is also a sign of rejuvenation, and there is no need to worry about my body." Di Renjie was very helpless about such an answer, but he could not refute it.
However, Wu Zetian wrote about the drawbacks of reusing traitors with practical actions, and when Wu Zetian was about to die in old age, Wu Zhou was overthrown by Li Xian and restored the Tang Dynasty, which is very similar to Lü Yan's reuse of foreign relatives.
The existence of Wu Zetian is the most vivid stroke in Chinese history, breaking the conservative concept of feudal society, on the one hand, proving the enlightenment of the Tang Dynasty, on the other hand, describing Wu Zetian's talents and abilities.