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Wu Zetian [note 8] (17 February 624 ... (today known as Xi'an). Wu Zetian was born in the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang. ... one of Wu's ministers.
x Mother: Lady Yang (杨氏, 579 - 3 October 670), Wu Shihuo's second wife, daughter of Yang Da (杨达, 551 - 612) (Wu Zetian's maternal grandfather), honored as the Lady of Rong (荣国夫人), Lady of Zuan, Lady of Wei (卫国夫人), and finally Lady Zhonglie of Lu, later further successively posthumously honored with titles corresponding ...
For instance, Empress Wu's own name 照 zhào was replaced with one of two new characters created through her: 瞾 or 曌; [1] looking in the Kangxi Dictionary, one finds the description of the former, having two 目 ("eye") characters, being the proper character, rather than 明 míng ("bright").
Born in 1708 in Virginia, Mary was a widow managing a plantation and raising five children by the time she was 35. ... Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor (624–705), may have aced ...
Wu was a concubine of Emperor Taizong; after his death she married his successor and 9th son, Emperor Gaozong, officially becoming Gaozong's furen, in 655, although previously having considerable political power prior to this. Gaozong had a debilitating stroke in 660, after which Wu Zetian ruled as effective sovereign until 705. [1]
Li Xiǎn [10] was born in 656, as the seventh son of his father Emperor Gaozong and the third son of his mother, Emperor Gaozong's second wife Empress Wu (later known as Wu Zetian). In 657, he was created the Prince of Zhou and nominally made the prefect of the eastern capital prefecture Luo Prefecture (洛州, roughly modern Luoyang , Henan ).
Wei Yuanzhong was born during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, probably in the 630s. [2] His family was from Songzhou.He was originally named Wei Zhenzai, but later changed his name to observe naming taboo for Lady Yang, the mother of Emperor Gaozong's second wife Empress Wu (later known as Wu Zetian). [3]
In the following years, Empress Wu's nephews Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi tried to have one of them named heir to the throne, but Wu Zetian resisted these calls. Eventually, in October 698, faced with foreign invasion and dissatisfaction at home, Empress Wu accepted the suggestion of the chancellor Di Renjie and recalled the exiled Li Xian to the ...