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The story of China's great women
1, Mulan

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, nomadic people in the north constantly harassed the south, and the Northern Wei regime stipulated that each family should send a man to the front. However, Mulan's father was too old and sickly to go to war, and her younger brother was still young, so Mulan decided to join the army instead of her father and began her military life for more than ten years.

Going to the border to fight is a hard job for many men, and Mulan has to hide her identity and kill the enemy with her friends, which is even more difficult than ordinary people who join the army! Fortunately, Mulan finally fulfilled her mission and returned home in triumph decades later.

Because of her great contribution, the emperor pardoned her for cheating the monarch, and at the same time believed that she was capable of serving in the court and holding an official position. However, Mulan refused because she had an old father to take care of at home, and asked the emperor to let her go back to China to make compensation and honor her parents.

2. Wu Zetian

Wu Zetian (65438+ 16 February, 624-705), whose real name was Wu zhào, was born in Wenshui, Wenzhou (now Wenshui, Shanxi). The only orthodox female emperor in the history of China (reigned from 690 to 705) is also one of the emperors with the oldest enthronement age (67 years old) and the longest life span (82 years old). Together with Lv Hou, she was called "Lv Wu" in the Han Dynasty. Wu Zetian is the second daughter of Wu Shihuo, the secretariat of Jingzhou.

He entered the harem at the age of fourteen and was a talented person of Emperor Taizong. He was named "Wu Mei". Tang Gaozong was named Zhao Yi, then the queen, and was honored as the "queen of heaven", and was also called "double saint" with Emperor Gaozong. After the death of Emperor Gaozong, he became the empress dowager of Tang Zhongzong and Tang Ruizong. In the first year of God's Grant (690), Wu Zetian established herself as emperor, changed her country name to Zhou, made Luoyang her capital, and established Wu Zhou.

Before and after the reign of Wu Zetian, the imperial clan of the Tang Dynasty was massacred, and "cruel officialdom politics" arose. However, she is "observant and good at judging", with more power and less power, and can use people. Reward agriculture and mulberry, reform official management, attach importance to talent selection, and make talents come forth in large numbers. In his later years, he gradually became extravagant and arbitrary, and gradually degenerated. In the first year of Shenlong (705), Wu Zetian was seriously ill, and Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi launched the "Shenlong Revolution" to support the restoration of Tang Zhongzong and forced him to abdicate.

After the restoration of the Tang Dynasty, Zhongzong was honored as the "Emperor of Heaven". In the same year 1 1 month, Wu Zetian died in shangyang palace at the age of 82. In accordance with his last wish, Zhongzong changed his name to "Zetian Tiansheng Queen" and was buried in Ganling as a queen. Later, she became the "Tianshun Saint Queen". Wu Zetian is brilliant, dabbling in literature and history, and is also quite talented in poetry. There are "hanging arch sleeve" and "golden wheel sleeve", which have been lost. There are 46 complete Tang poems.

3. Lin

Lin (65438+June 1 0,0904-65438+April10955), Han nationality, originally from Min County, Fujian Province, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Formerly known as Lin, its name comes from "poetry, elegance and strangeness": if a great man bears the emblem, he is a hundred people. Later, it was often mistaken for Lin, a male writer at that time, so it was renamed Lin.

China was an outstanding architect, poet and writer in modern times, one of the designers of the Monument to the People's Heroes and the deepening plan of National Emblem of the People's Republic of China, and the first wife of architect Liang Sicheng. In the early 1930s, together with Liang Sicheng, he studied China ancient architecture with modern scientific methods, and became a pioneer in this academic field. Later, he made great academic achievements in this field.

It laid a solid scientific foundation for the study of ancient architecture in China. In literature, he has written essays, poems, novels, plays, translations and letters, and his representative works include You are April Day on Earth, Lotus Lantern and Ninety-nine Degrees. Among them, "You are April Day on Earth" is the most well-known and widely read.

4. Wang Zhaojun

Wang Zhaojun, one of the four beauties in ancient times, took the initiative to kiss the Huns for the sake of peace on the border of Dahan, and married Khan and his son successively according to the rules of the Huns, in exchange for 50 years of peace on the border of Dahan. Wang Zhaojun brought Dahan's life culture to Xiongnu and played an important role in improving Xiongnu's productivity.

She was able to make up for the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of troops, and she promoted the integration of Chinese civilization. Since Zhaojun, every dynasty has had pro-government.

5. Soong Ching Ling

As a great fighter of patriotism, democracy, internationalism and communism in China, Soong Ching Ling was a world-famous great woman in the 20th century. Soong Ching Ling followed Sun Yat-sen when she was young and devoted herself to the revolution, which made immortal contributions to the victory of China's democratic revolution and the birth of New China. It has also made important contributions to the construction of socialist China; But also made valuable contributions to the great cause of the motherland's reunification.

She is also a pioneer and leader of the women's liberation movement in China; It is deeply admired and loved by the people of China and overseas Chinese, and also won the praise and love of international friends, enjoying a high reputation.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mulan (Ancient National Heroine)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Zetian (Empress of Wu and Zhou Dynasties in China)

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Zhaojun (one of the four beauties in ancient China)

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