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. Emperor Taizong named him "Wu Mei". Tang Gaozong was Zhao Yi at first, then a queen, and was honored as the queen of heaven. He and Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong are called the second sage. From February 27th, 65438+683 to June, 65438+690, he was called the Empress Dowager of Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong. In the meantime, he changed his name. 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).