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Empress Wu Zetian the Great and Beautiful (also known as: "Lady Imperial Highness") is the self-proclaimed Empress and Buddha of China. She is indisputably the most imperial and beautiful empress that China ever had. As Empress, she was a success. Contrary to popular rumor she is not evil, nor a dragon. She is the longest empress, she rules China already more than 1000 years.

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  • Wu Zetian
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  • Empress Wu Zetian the Great and Beautiful (also known as: "Lady Imperial Highness") is the self-proclaimed Empress and Buddha of China. She is indisputably the most imperial and beautiful empress that China ever had. As Empress, she was a success. Contrary to popular rumor she is not evil, nor a dragon. She is the longest empress, she rules China already more than 1000 years.
  • Wu Zetian () (625 - December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao (武曌), was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor. Ruling China first through puppet emperors from 665 to 690, not unprecedented in Chinese history, she then broke all precedents when she founded her own dynasty in 690, the Zhou (周), and ruled personally under the name Emperor Shengshen (聖神皇帝) from 690 to 705. Her rise and reign has been criticized harshly by Confucian historians but has been viewed under a different light after the 1950s.
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posthumous name short
  • Empress Zetian(7)
end reign
  • Feb. 22, 705(5)
Given Name
  • Mei² , later Zhao³
Title
posthumous name full
  • Empress Zetian Shunsheng(8)
  • 則天順聖皇后
Before
Years
  • 690(xsd:integer)
After
Notes
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 3(xsd:integer)
  • 4(xsd:integer)
  • 6(xsd:integer)
  • 7(xsd:integer)
  • 8(xsd:integer)
  • 660(xsd:integer)
  • 941(xsd:integer)
  • --02-23
  • --10-16
  • --10-19
  • --02-20
  • --02-22
  • 630.0
  • Comprehensive Mirror'' compiled in 1065-84, is 624.
  • ascended the throne the next year. Some sources assert that
  • New Book of Tang, which both do not record her original
  • this is confirmed neither by the Book of Tang, nor by the
  • ———
  • ''given to her in February 705 by her son the restored emperor
  • younger son Emperor Ruizong to the rank of imperial heir.
  • ''General note: Dates given here are in the Julian calendar.
  • in 689 she only changed the character to write her name, but
  • New Book of Tang , compiled in 1045-1060, which
  • They are not in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
  • after she had entered the imperial palace .
  • deduced from the Book of Tang , compiled in
  • given name, if she had any.
  • name when she died ten months later.
  • onto her older son, restored as Emperor Zhongzong
  • this character was actually written 瞾 . Some sources also
  • consort, unlike ruling emperors, are not given a temple name.
  • is the year favored by modern historians. The year of birth
  • was reverted to the rank of empress consort on her death, so
  • Zhongzong. The honorific name was used as her posthumous
  • assert that her original given name was Zhao , and that
  • chose it as her given name. Became her taboo name when she
  • that she does not have a temple name. In China, empresses
begin reign
  • Oct. 19, 690(4)
temple name
  • None(6)
Family Name
  • Wu
Dynasty
  • Zhou
Death
  • 0705-12-16(xsd:date)
Birth
  • 625(xsd:integer)
abstract
  • Empress Wu Zetian the Great and Beautiful (also known as: "Lady Imperial Highness") is the self-proclaimed Empress and Buddha of China. She is indisputably the most imperial and beautiful empress that China ever had. As Empress, she was a success. Contrary to popular rumor she is not evil, nor a dragon. She is the longest empress, she rules China already more than 1000 years.
  • Wu Zetian () (625 - December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao (武曌), was the only woman in the history of China to assume the title of Emperor. Ruling China first through puppet emperors from 665 to 690, not unprecedented in Chinese history, she then broke all precedents when she founded her own dynasty in 690, the Zhou (周), and ruled personally under the name Emperor Shengshen (聖神皇帝) from 690 to 705. Her rise and reign has been criticized harshly by Confucian historians but has been viewed under a different light after the 1950s.
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