In the scrolls of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there is a woman's name, which complements the glory of the "Reign of Zhenguan" and becomes a model for virtuous queens in later generations. She was the wife of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and the eldest grandson empress with the posthumous title of "Wende". Her life was like a gentle pearl, always radiating the light of benevolence and wisdom amidst the torrent of power.
Wedge:
It was late summer in the twenty-third year of Zhenguan. Above the Zhaoling Tower on Mount Jiuwei, the wind has brought a chill. The aging Emperor Taizong, Li Shimin, was wrapped in a thick fur cloak and his withered fingers tightly clutched a faded fragment of the "Women's Rules". His turbid eyes crossed the mountains and looked stubbornly at the newly built mausoleum in the southwest - there, the love of his life, the eldest son of Empress Wende, who had been deceased for thirteen years, rested. The moonlight flooded the ground like mercury, outlining Mount Jiuwei into a huge phoenix fluttering its wings and ready to fly. In a daze, he seemed to see her in plain clothes, standing in the moonlight, with warm eyebrows, just like the girl holding the wedding dress on the snowy night when he first met her. He murmured: "Guanyin maid, these mountains and rivers are so picturesque, but you are not there to enjoy them all... Does this bright moon ever see your mausoleum?" A drop of dirty tears fell down and hit the cold railing. Memory, like the wind in the mountains, roars back to the same cold winter more than forty years ago...
