Peerless and Independent: Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian was very wise, involved in literature and history, and was quite talented in poetry. He once summoned his literary ministers Zhou Maosi and Fan Lubing to compile Yao Lan, Zi Hai, Yue Shu Yao Lu and other books. There are 100 volumes of "Cui Gong Collection" and 10 volumes of "Jin Lun Collection", which are now lost. "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" contains 46 of his poems, such as "Ruyi Niang", "Song of Dragging the Cauldron", "Tang Xiang Haotian Le" (first to twelfth), etc. This book selects "Chen Gui" (volumes 1 and 2) written by Wu Zetian, which fully demonstrates Wu Zetian's literary attainments. The exclusive appendix includes a biography of Wu Zetian, which is a must-read masterpiece. Wu Zetian, named Zhao, was from Wenshui, Bingzhou. The only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history, she is also one of the oldest emperors (ascended the throne at the age of 67) and the longest lifespan (aged 82). Wu Zetian entered the harem at the age of fourteen. She was a talented person of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and was given the title "Wu Mei". During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, she was granted the title of Zhaoyi and later the queen, with the title "Tianhou". Together with Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, she was also known as the "Two Saints". After the death of Emperor Gaozong, he became the empress dowager of Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong. During this period, it was renamed "". In the first year of Tianshou (690), Wu Zetian announced that she would change the name of Tang Dynasty to Zhou Dynasty, establish herself as emperor, and designate Luoyang as the capital, calling it the "Shen Capital", and establish the Wu-Zhou Dynasty.