In the history of China's feudal dynasties, Tianzi was the supreme ruler of a country and had supreme power. After Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, he thought that he was both the three emperors and the five emperors, so he combined the two "high-level words" of emperor and emperor and called himself emperor. Since then, all the sons of heaven have been called emperors.
Let's introduce the Emperor Taishang. The abdicated emperor or the emperor's living father had an exclusive title, which was Emperor Taishang. Throughout history, in fact, the Emperor Taishang is a more awkward position. Emperors have supreme power and a life of pampering, so few people are willing to easily cede the throne they have worked so hard to win.
Even if it was given to his own son, he was very reluctant. There are only a few emperors in history who have taken the initiative to abdicate, only Song Gaozong and Qianlong Emperor, and most of the other Taishang Emperors have been forced to abdicate, such as Tang Gaozong, Ming Yingzong, etc. Their later life after becoming Emperor Taishang can be described as miserable and tragic.
The first Taishang Emperor in history was Qin Shi Huang's father, Qin Zhuang Xiang Wang, which was a posthumous title given to his father after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms as emperor, but at this time, Qin Zhuang Xiang Wang had been dead for many years, so Qin Zhuang Xiang Wang was not really The Taishang Emperor. Therefore, the real first Emperor Taishang in history was Liu Bang's father, Liu Taigong.
Liu Taigong had four sons, and the third son, Liu Ji, was the later Han Gaozu Liu Bang. Liu Bang called the empress dowager, seeing her father every five days, and there was no difference between etiquette and the daily life of father and son in the folk. Once the housekeeper told Liu Taigong that there was no two days in the sky, and the people had no two masters, and it was right that the king should be the first and the father and son, and Liu Taigong should not accept the emperor's visit.
After that, when Liu Bang went to see his father, he saw his father respectfully greet him with a broom in his hand, and after asking the reason, he immediately made Liu Taigong the Emperor taishang. It is reasonable for the emperor to worship the emperor and the son to worship the father. Liu Taigong was an old farmer who farmed the land before, and he loved to grow vegetables very much, so Liu Bang vacated the imperial garden to grow vegetables for his father, Liu Taigong loved to fight wine and play football, liu Bang sent people to the countryside to pick up his father's old friends and accompany his father to fight wine and play football.
Liu Taigong held the title of Emperor Taishang and spent five beautiful years in the imperial palace at the age of 85. The most beautiful is the sunset red, Liu Taigong's old man's life in his later years is really very moist, of course, this is thanks to his good son Liu Bang.
The last Taishang Emperor in history was the Qianlong Emperor. He reigned for 60 years, but he did not dare to break the record of his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor, who reigned for 61 years, so he reluctantly took the initiative to give way to the Jiaqing Emperor. On the surface, he has retreated to the second line and become the Emperor Taishang, but in fact he is still in power. The Qianlong Emperor did not even want to pass the jade seal to the Jiaqing Emperor, which made the Jiaqing Emperor very embarrassed, or the agent Xiaolan and He yan persuaded him to pass on the jade seal.
The Qianlong Emperor allowed the Jiaqing Emperor to handle minor matters himself, but some of the more important state affairs had to go through qianlong's hands, and the Emperor Taishang, who had retreated to the second line, personally decided. In this way, Qianlong is still the emperor, and his son is just a small assistant who helps him deal with tedious and trivial matters. Jiaqing, the emperor, was really breathless, and he had to ask his father what he wanted to do, and everything had to be acted according to his father's face, and everything needed to be approved by his father before he could act.
Even Empress Xue and the Jiaqing Emperor were all from Jane, and the mourning period was shortened. Because Qianlong was old and most taboo about death, the Jiaqing Emperor was afraid that his father would see the blockage in his heart, and when he and his father met, they faded their mourning clothes. Qianlong sent He Yan to observe the emperor's recent ruling situation, and He Yan informed Empress Xue that she did not disturb the emperor's handling of government affairs, that everything about the empress's funeral was simple, and that the emperor handled the state affairs in an orderly manner. The Jiaqing Emperor reigned diligently, worked hard and complained, and was also respectful to his father, and finally three years later, he survived the Taishang Emperor and was able to monopolize power and become a real emperor.
The Tang Dynasty was a legendary dynasty, not only with its marvelous luxury and prosperity, but also with the largest number of Taishang emperors in history. After the change of Xuanwumen, Li Shimin ascended the throne, and Li Yuan had to abdicate as Emperor Taishang. Tang Ruizong Li Dan felt physically and mentally exhausted in front of the emperor, and was very tired, so he took the initiative to abdicate to Li Longji, retreated to the second line, admired the flowers in the imperial garden, drank and walked, and spent his old age in peace.
Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was forced to abdicate, and the days after his abdication were very sad, and the emperor was worried about Li Longji's restoration, so he managed to transfer his close ministers and attendants, leaving the Emperor Taishang alone. Tang Shunzong Li Xuan reigned for only eight months before he was forced to abdicate to Li Chun. Li Ye was supported by the eunuch Liu Jishu and others, but was soon forced to abdicate by these people on the grounds of deposing liming, and later restored, but it was not long before he was murdered by the rebels. Throughout this period of Tang Dynasty history, only Li Dan took the initiative to abdicate and enjoy his old age, and the other Emperor Taishang was somewhat miserable and sad.
The title of one level higher than the emperor is the Emperor Taishang, and the title of one level higher than the Emperor Taishang is not the Emperor taishang, but the supreme emperor. In history, there was only one Supreme Emperor, and he was Gao Wei, the Empress Dowager of Northern Qi. This Northern Qi empress dowager exuded a strong subjugation temperament from the inside out. First of all, Gao Wei was a young man of literature and art, proficient in piano and dance and painting, who once composed a song himself and played it himself, and invited more than 400 palace women in the palace to dance with him, so he was called "the son of heaven without worries" by the people of the world.
Secondly, Gao Wei is also a performance artist, he opened a small village in the palace, played a beggar himself, and occasionally opened a small market, sometimes playing a buyer, sometimes playing a seller, busy and happy. The temperament of the subjugated country is indispensable to luxury, Gao Wei likes to raise horses, the horses in the palace eat imperial food, and there are official titles and Feng Lu, compared to the Northern Qi people's life is not as good as a beast.
The palace maids in the palace cost 10,000 taels for a dress, and they only wore it for one night and threw it away. This degree of luxury, in modern times, should be a super big tycoon, probably the kind that Dubai came back. There is also a subjugated temperament is brutality, after Gao Wei took the throne, as long as he looks unpleasant, even if it is just a small attendant, he will kill them all.
Moreover, he also kissed the villain, YuanXianchen, killed Hu Luxian, Lanling Wang and other loyal ministers, and spoiled the villain. Of course, the most prominent temperament of this Qi Hou lord is still lustful. In fact, in my opinion, the word "lustful" alone can no longer summarize his behavior.
He liked the graceful and colorful Feng Xiaopi, so he put his arms above the court to discuss political affairs, which had already made the ministers blush, and what was even more humiliating was that he let Feng Xiaopi lie in the bathtub and put the bathtub in the main hall for people to see, I think he was already mad and had no shame. With such a faint monarch, it is really difficult to go to the sky if he wants to not destroy the country.
Sure enough, at the age of 21, when Northern Qi was about to perish, Gao Wei abdicated to the eight-year-old prince Gao Heng in order to avoid disaster, and then ordered Gao Heng to abdicate to Gao Huan, the king of Rencheng, but the edict died before it reached its destination, and Gao Wei became the only supreme emperor in the history of China's feudal dynasty, but this only supreme emperor was really ironic.