The Real Wu Zetian in History

If nothing else, if he is really as cruel and stupid as the legend says, how could he, a woman, get to that position? He is said to be stupid and stupid. Come on, a woman can reach this position. If he is stupid, are all the civil and military officials in that dynasty fools? To make him wait, the logic behind this obviously fabricated rumor does not make sense, and it can be regarded as a standard by many people. I can only say that those are idiots and chauvinistic pigs. In addition, which king is not cruel? He is a woman, and if she wants to climb up, she can only rely on cruelty to scare them, otherwise, why not teach them the Tao Te Ching?

Thinking of Cixi, she is definitely not as good as Emperor Wu, but if we compare her with other last emperors, we can find that she is not as stupid and evil as rumored (this is after her right to education is exploited by patriarchy). And why were those male "critics" so sarcastic about Cixi and blaming China's national humiliation on her, yet were so tolerant and considerate of the last male emperor? It's just because of hatred towards women.

Those literati who are good at distorting history

Yes, yes, our teacher just said that the more detailed the history, the less trustworthy it is. I really don't understand why some people always think that Emperor Wu was the one who poisoned his children, and they still say so frankly. It doesn't mean that ancient documents are correct, and so does the birth of Confucius. It is also written in the Historical Records that "He married a daughter of the Yan family and gave birth to Confucius", but in Wang Su's writing, it became "Proposed to the Yan family. The Yan family had three daughters, and the younger one said..." Historical documents are only second-hand historical materials. Only by comparing many documents, the place with the highest degree of overlap can be regarded as a historical record. Why do some people still think that Emperor Wu is a poisonous woman? I'm really angry

The author is thoughtful, and the image of Wu Zetian has indeed been misunderstood too much.

Just because she is the empress who breaks the cage and seizes power in an unconventional manner, and the emperor who creates the sun and the moon in the sky, she is the unprecedented number one.

That is, why can't you kill? There have been many emperors who killed their fathers and relatives in history. How can an emperor control the people below him if he doesn't have iron-blooded skills? Kill, kill, kill, kill everyone who gets in the way.

Emperor Wu was a very strong emperor. If there were more ministers who supported her at that time, the world might be better now.

Most of the new era literary masters who hate Wu Zetian extremely have one thing in common. They were all born or grew up during the Republic of China. They are at the transition point between the old and new eras. They are a group of people who, after being poisoned by feudal ideas, accepted the advanced Western ideas of the time, but still retained many feudal ideas and habits. Even in the new era, there are fundamental differences from those revolutionary martyrs. Moreover, the period during which they were born and grew up was not far away from Cixi. Many of them were even born and spent their childhood when Cixi was in power. The education I received as a child was full of feudal prejudices, and I also experienced the period of the Queen Mother of a previous dynasty, and saw the destructive power of "Female Chicken Si Chen". It is not difficult to understand that she would have ill will towards the only female emperor. But there is one problem. In fact, it is obvious that the extreme malice of this group of people towards Wu Zetian is basically directed at a certain former empress dowager. Wu Zetian was just a target. What they really wanted to scold was a certain former empress dowager. But no matter whether it was the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China, few people dared to scold her (there were a few people who dared to scold her, but after checking, it seemed that these people were not qualified to scold others, which is quite strange), so I could only scold the empress of thousands of years ago. After all, it is obviously more "cost-effective" to scold an empress who has been dead for a thousand years than to scold the old empress of the previous dynasty who died only a few years ago.

I agree that Wu Zhao is not a feminist, but at that time no woman thought about fighting for women's rights, and there was no awareness of women's rights. I think it was too absolute, and too many voices were lost in men's history.