[Zhao] (624-705,65438+16 February), namely Wu Zetian, was born in Wenshui (now Wenshui County, Shanxi Province). Politician from Tang Dynasty to Wu Zhou Dynasty, the founding monarch of Wu Zhou Dynasty (reigned from 690 to 705), the only orthodox female emperor in China history, and one of the oldest emperors who acceded to the throne (67 years old) and lived the longest (82 years old).
Wu Zetian is the second daughter of Wu Shihuo, the secretariat of Jingzhou. When he entered the harem at the age of fourteen, he was a talented person of Emperor Taizong and was named "Wu Mei"? . In the sixth year (655) after the "Abolition of the King" incident, Yonghui became the queen.
Family background:
Wu Zetian (later called Wu Zhao) was the second daughter of Wu Shihuo, the founding hero of the Tang Dynasty. Her mother is Yang (born in the royal family of Sui Dynasty, and her father is the younger brother of King De of Sui Dynasty), and her ancestral home is Wenshui County (now Wenshui County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province). Wu Zetian Wude was born in Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan) in the seventh year (624). She was once called Chang 'an (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi) and Luoyang.
There are two half-brothers, Wu and Wu, and two half-sisters. One is Wu Shun, a Korean wife (Wu Shun is called a sister in history books and a sister in Wu Shun's epitaph), and the other is Mrs. Guo.
Wu Shihuo is engaged in timber trade, and his family is well-off. At the end of Yang Di the Great, when Li Yuan (Tang Gaozu) was in Hedong, he stayed in the Wu family many times and got to know each other. After Li Yuan rose up against the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan, the Wu family once supported money and had no worries about food and clothing.