As we all know, in ancient times, the emperor was the largest ruler of a country, and the emperor of each dynasty was a descendant of the founding emperor, but the succession of the emperor was also very difficult, because it had to be strictly tested, and from an early age, he had to receive a lot of education to plan for the future.
After the death of the emperor, there will be a prince who will continue to ascend to this throne and rule the world, so the general emperor's ascension to the throne is to wait for the death of his father, but in ancient times, there were some emperors who were different, and when they were not dead, they had already given up the throne, but this kind of thing was a minority after all.
Among the hundreds of emperors in China, there are only a dozen cases, but after the emperor abdicated, they also became the emperor and became the emperor's living father, and everyone often saw the empress, that is, the empress of the emperor, according to statistics, only 17 people in history were called the emperor.
When they were still alive, the emperor would inevitably be embarrassed, we all know that the emperor called himself Yuan, but how should the emperor call himself after becoming the emperor of Taishang? Let's talk about Tang Xuanzong first, he said after Tang Suzong ascended the throne, Shuo is the emperor of Taishang, there are some major matters for the emperor to deal with, and then tell me. That is to say, at that time, he also called himself Yuan, and there was no change.
There is also the closest Emperor Taishang to us, he is the Qianlong Emperor, many people must have guessed, because the Qianlong Emperor has also lived too long, the Kangxi Emperor reigned for sixty-one years, and the Qianlong Emperor has been reigning for sixty years, also to show respect for the Kangxi Emperor, and under the repeated requests of the ministers, Qianlong took the initiative to give up the throne to Jiaqing.
But was the Qianlong Emperor so willing to cede his power? Naturally impossible, he ceded the throne to his son, but he was always unwilling to let go of the power in his hands, and even issued an edict that "all military and state affairs are still personally managed, and the emperor listens to the teachings and studies with him." ”
That is to say, the Qianlong Emperor still has to grasp the major affairs of the DPRK and China, and the major affairs of the state are still handled by him, and the emperor is on the side to study and look at it well, although he has abdicated, does Jiaqing dare not follow it? However, here Qianlong also calls himself "朕", is it true that the Emperor Taishang calls himself 朕?
This is not the case, for example, in the last years of the Song Dynasty, faced with the oppression of the enemy's army, Song Huizong hurriedly ceded the throne to Song Qinzong, in order not to be the king of the fallen country, unwilling to bear this insult, and he once called himself an old decay, which was also the environment at that time that he had no choice, on the contrary, the two Emperor Taishang, although they had abdicated, could still hold power, so they called themselves "Yuan".