"Dai Li Jingye Passed on the Heavenly Text" once said: "After practicing the Yuan, yu Zhai, trapping Wujun in Juji." "During the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian monopolized power and eventually became a generation of empresses, but after she ascended the throne, she recruited male favors, causing constant disputes among courtiers.
Although in the concept of ancient Chinese feudal society, women should be dependent on men for survival, some women with rebellious spirit and independent consciousness can break the many shackles of feudal society and strive for a brighter future for themselves.
When it comes to empress Wu Zetian, presumably everyone knows and everyone knows, as the only female emperor in the thousand-year development history of feudal society, Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne has created a historical legend. Regarding Wu Zetian's life, posterity has a variety of views, and the reason why many people have a negative view of Wu Zetian is also because she looked for male pets after she ascended to the throne. For Wu Zetian, in the process of finding male pets, the first condition is to be handsome, and the second condition is difficult for anyone to meet. What are the special conditions in the process of Wu Zetian's selection of male pets? Why is this condition difficult for ordinary people to achieve?
In fact, in the very beginning, Wu Zetian's status was not very high, and she was only a talented person in Li Shimin's harem. As an inconspicuous talent among the three thousand beauties in the harem, Wu Zetian did not receive much favor from Li Shimin. However, at that time, Wu Zetian was not willing to accept the bland harem life, but on the contrary
He secretly had a love affair with Li Shimin's son Li Zhi and began an unrequited love.
In ancient society, such behavior was obviously contrary to ethics, but out of admiration for Wu Zetian, Li Zhi did not care about the outside world's views. After Li Shimin's death, Li Zhi ascended to the throne. At that time, the out-of-favor Empress Wang took the initiative to propose to Li Zhi to include Wu Zetian in the palace, and because Li Zhi had already had this intention, he agreed to Empress Wang's decision. anaphase
After Empress Wang was deposed, Li Zhi promoted Wu Zetian to the empress.
thereafter
Li Zhi was physically ill, and often handed over the folds and official documents to Wu Zetian, and over time, the power in Wu Zetian's hands became greater and greater
。 Eventually, after Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian became the de facto ruler, and later, she deposed Li Xian and sat on the throne herself as emperor.
For Wu Zetian, who had become emperor, she hoped to reform state policy from all aspects, and in this case, she decided to establish her own "harem". By understanding the customs of ancient society, you will find that people's moral requirements for women are relatively high, and under the influence of this concept, Wu Zetian naturally cannot fill the harem like a male emperor.
nevertheless
Wu Zetian would still secretly recruit some male pets for himself
Through relevant historical records, it can be seen that in the process of Wu Zetian's selection of male pets, there are the following two conditions, and after many people have understood these two conditions, they also think that the second condition is too harsh.
First of all, people who can become Wu Zetian's male favorite generally have handsome looks
。 From ancient times to the present, people with outstanding appearance will become the focus of attention of the world, after all, the heart of beauty, everyone has it, when encountering those who are beautiful or handsome, I think people will be happy because of their appearance.
For Wu Zetian, as a "Yan Control", she will naturally be fascinated by those handsome men, because of her power in the world, she wants to find men with outstanding looks and willing to become male favorites, naturally without effort.
The second condition is that the male pet must have superior knowledge and talent
For many men, this condition is also difficult to achieve.
From this condition, we can feel that
Wu Zetian's recruitment of male pets is not only for her own pleasure, but also hopes that male pets can share the government for her.
By observing many of Wu Zetian's male favorites, you will find that they all have outstanding political talent or military ability, and after receiving Wu Zetian's protection, they can also serve in the court to further consolidate Wu Zetian's power.
It can be seen through historical records that
Wu Zetian's famous male favorites Xue Huaiyi, Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Changzong and others all have very outstanding political ability
In the process of dealing with things in the DPRK, several of them were also able to provide effective help to Wu Zetian.
Because Wu Zetian has higher requirements, there are not many male pets who can meet his requirements, and in the process of studying this history by later generations, it is also believed that Wu Zetian chose male pets not only for his own enjoyment. For those who are handsome in appearance but have average talent, they cannot rely on their physical advantages to gain the favor of Wu Zetian.
epilogue
Through the understanding of Wu Zetian's "harem male pet", it will be found that her criteria for selecting harem members are very different from those of male emperors. In the process of selecting male pets for himself, Wu Zetian ning is lacking and indiscriminate, which shows that Wu Zetian is not a faint emperor who only understands pleasure and does not care about the development of the country.
Although in the process of evaluating Wu Zetian in later generations, the world has a lot of prejudices against her, in fact, during the reign of Wu Zetian, he also helped the mainland achieve a higher level of development. From such a situation, we can feel that when evaluating historical figures, we should also abandon our inner prejudices and avoid misconceptions about historical figures, and then we cannot understand the real historical development.
Reference: Zizhi Tongjian