The Long Remaining Life: a Northern Wei Palace Lady and Her Era
by Luo Xin
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In 466 AD, Emperor Ming of the Song Dynasty, Liu Yu, and his nephew Liu Zixun, who proclaimed themselves emperor in Xunyang, stood side by side. The civil war spread to almost the entire Liu Song Dynasty, and then evolved into a war with the Northern Wei Dynasty. Wang Zhong'er, who was born into a middle-level bureaucratic family in the Southern Dynasties, was forced to get involved, and his family was ruined. Two years later, he was robbed and became an ordinary maid of Pingcheng Palace at the age of thirty. However, her fate accidentally came into contact with the "child is valued until mother dies" system, and she was accidentally involved in the whirlpool of power struggle. She became a key figure in raising two generations of emperors as a palace maid and a bhikshuni, and lived in the court of the Northern Wei Dynasty for fifty-six years. Professor Luo Xin used epitaphs and other historical materials to tell the story of Wang Zhonger's long and ups and downs life, and used her eyes to see the era in which she lived. He restored the emperor, concubines, relatives, courtiers, eunuchs and maids to specific people, and saw them facing each other. The joy, fear, arrogance, and despair of power... As the life story of Wang Zhonger unfolds, there is also the nearly eighty-year history of the Northern Wei Dynasty from Emperor Xianwen and Emperor Xiaowen to Emperor Xuanwu and Emperor Xiaoming. Of course, there are also many people swept by the stormy waves of the times. We pay attention to ordinary people in distant times because they are part of real history. Without them, history would be incomplete and unreal.
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