What is the relationship between Li Shimin and Wu Zetian?

Wu Zetian was a talented person during the reign of Li Shimin. Wu Zetian was not favored by Emperor Taizong. She has been a gifted scholar for 12 years, and her status has never improved. During the period when Emperor Taizong was seriously ill, Wu Zetian established feelings with Prince Li Zhi. Wu Zetian (AD 624-AD 705) was born in Wu Zhao, Wenshui (now East of Wenshui County, Shaanxi Province).

The only orthodox female emperor in the history of China is also one of the oldest (67 years old) and longest-lived (82 years old) emperors. Yang, the second daughter and mother of a hero in the Tang Dynasty. At the age of fourteen, he entered the harem as a talented person of Emperor Taizong, who named him "Wu Mei". Tang Gaozong was the Zhao Yi first, then the Queen, and was honored as the Queen of Heaven, and was also called the Two Saints with Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi.

During the period from February 27th, 65438+683 to February 27th, 65438+6901October 6th, as the appellation system of the Empress Dowager, the period was renamed as "Qi". Wu Zetian thinks that she is as lofty as the sun and the moon, hanging high above the sky. Later, he established himself as emperor, renamed Luoyang as the capital, and established the Wu and Zhou Dynasties. In the first month of the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi launched a mutiny, forcing Wu Shi to abdicate, which was called the Shenlong Revolution in history.

After the restoration of Tang Zhongzong and the restoration of the Tang Dynasty, he was honored as "Emperor Zetiansheng", and later changed his name to "Empress Zetiansheng" according to Wu's wishes, and was buried in Ganling as a queen. In the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7 16), posthumous title was changed to Zetian Shengdi, and Tianbao was added in the eighth year (AD 749).

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Anecdotal allusions

According to legend, when Emperor Taizong was alive, he asked an astronomer to tell his fortune. Astronomers believe that within 30 years, Li died at the hands of a man named Wu. So Emperor Taizong slaughtered Wu Shi's courtiers, but unexpectedly, Wu Cairen was the one beside him. According to legend, during the period of Ganye Temple, Li Zhi went to worship, and when he saw the Wu family, he was out of her wits.

At that time, the competing king and queen took advantage of this to fight, but both of them died at the hands of Wu. After Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor, there were also many Toy Boy. One of the most famous is Feng Xiaobao (Xue Huaiyi). Later, Wu Zetian sent him to become a monk in Dongbaima Temple in Luoyang, and his dharma name was Huai Yi, but he still had an affair with Wu Zetian.

One year, the Orchid Festival, which had gradually fallen out of favor at that time, set a fire in Tang Ming in order to attract the attention of Wu Zetian, and the fire spread to the whole Luoyang. In order to transform culture, Wu Zetian created a heavenly book. Some Japanese characters have also spread to Japan and South Korea, and even become the names of some Japanese. Wu Zetian wrote 100 volume "the set of vertical arches" and 10 volume "the set of golden wheels", which have been lost.

There are forty-six poems today and four volumes of all Tang poems. Wu Zetian used three titles six years before she ascended the throne, and 15 used 16 titles, which is 19 titles. She is the emperor with the most titles and the highest density in China. The second place is Sima Zhong, the Jinhui Emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty. Except for the longest year number of Yuankang (9 years), eight years were used in 9 years.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Zetian