Wu Zetian is the second daughter of Wu Shihuo, the founder of the Tang Dynasty. Her mother's name is Yang (born in the royal family of the Sui Dynasty, and her father is the younger brother of King Sui and Duke Ning Sui), and her ancestral home is in Wenshui County, Bingzhou (now a native of Beixu Village, Wenshui County, Shanxi Province). Wu Zetian was born in Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan) and Chang 'an (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi) in the seventh year of Wude (624).
There are two half-brothers, Wu and Wu, and two half-sisters. One is Wu Shun, a Korean wife (Wu Shun is called a sister in history books and a sister in Wu Shun's epitaph), and the other is Mrs. Guo.
Wu Shihuo is engaged in timber trade, and his family is well-off. At the end of Yang Di the Great, when Li Yuan (Tang Gaozu) was in Hedong, he stayed in the Wu family many times and got to know each other. After Li Yuan rose up against the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan, the Wu family once supported money and had no worries about food and clothing. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Shihuo, as a "hero of the Yuan Dynasty", was appointed as the minister of the Ministry of Industry and the secretariat of Jingzhou. ?
Therefore, Bai Shouyi thought in "A General History of China" that "according to the rank of samurai, they should belong to the new senior cremation. So Wu Zetian is not from a commoner in a landlord-bureaucrat family, but from a free commoner in a landlord-bureaucrat family "? .
After Wu Shihuo died in the ninth year of Zhenguan (635), Wu Zetian was only twelve years old. Her cousins, Wu Huaiyun and Wu are rude to their mother Yang. Soon, Wu Zetian moved back to Chang 'an from Jingzhou with her mother.
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Wu Zetian (624-705,65438+1February 6), whose real name was Wu Xie (Xu), was later renamed Zhao, and was born in Wenshui, Wenzhou (now Wenshui, Shaanxi). The only orthodox female emperor in the history of China (reigned from 690 to 705) is also one of the emperors with the oldest enthronement age (67 years old) and the longest life span (82 years old). Together with Lv Hou, she was called "Lv Wu" in the Han Dynasty.
Wu Zetian is the second daughter of Wu Shihuo, the secretariat of Jingzhou. He entered the harem at the age of fourteen and was a talented person of Emperor Taizong. He was named "Wu Mei". Tang Gaozong was named Zhao Yi, then the queen, and was honored as the "queen of heaven", and was also called "double saint" with Emperor Gaozong. After the death of Emperor Gaozong, he became the empress dowager of Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong.
In the first year of God's Grant (690), Wu Zetian established herself as emperor, changed her country name to Zhou, made Luoyang her capital, and established Wu Zhou. Before and after Wu Zetian's rule, the imperial clan in the Tang Dynasty was massacred, and "cruel official politics" rose. However, she is "observant and good at judging", and she has great power and can use people, so she makes talents come forth in large numbers. We also rewarded agriculture and mulberry, reformed official management, and attached importance to selecting talents. In his later years, he gradually became extravagant and arbitrary, and gradually degenerated.
In the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi launched the "Shenlong Revolution" to support the restoration of Tang Zhongzong and forced him to abdicate. After the restoration of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongzong was honored as the "Emperor of Heaven". In the same year 1 1 month, Wu Zetian died in shangyang palace at the age of 82. In accordance with his last wish, Zhongzong changed his name to "Zetian Tiansheng Queen" and was buried in Ganling as a queen. Later, she became the "Tianshun Saint Queen".
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Zetian
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