Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in ancient China, used to be a nun. In a desperate situation, she did not give up on herself, and finally she used a poem and a pomegranate skirt to complete the counterattack in her life.

Speaking of Tang poetry, many people’s names will come to mind! Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Wang Wei, Du Mu, Li Shangyin. These people are all famous poets, and the classic poems are also loaded with loads. However, most of these poems are just to express feelings and talk about masturbation. So they can only be called poets, and politicians are not called poets even if they can write poetry. For them, poetry can become a weapon.

Yuan Tiangang’s Prophecy

AD 626 One day in the new year, Yuan Tiangang, a master of physiognomy, came to Wu Zetian’s house, and everyone knew that Yuan Tiangang was a relative. The Wu family would naturally not miss this opportunity, so Wu Zetian’s mother, the Yang family, summoned all the sons and let Yuan Tiangang look at each other one by one. That year, Wu Zetian was just a baby in swaddling clothes. When she was picked up by the nurse, she was wearing boy clothes.

Yuan Tiangang was shocked after seeing it and said two words. The first sentence: Dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes are indescribably expensive. The second sentence: If you are a woman, you should have the appearance of the Son of Heaven.

Twelve Years of Mediocrity

In AD 637, Wu Zetian entered the palace by imperial edict. Called Wu Mei Niang.

My daughter entered the palace at such a young age and became the emperor’s concubine. Mother Yang couldn’t help crying, but Wu Zetian said, “How can you know that the emperor who serves Shengming is not a blessing?” It can be seen that Wu Zetian is very ambitious.

After entering the palace, Wu Zetian was unwilling to be only a small talent and tried his best to express himself. Once, Tang Taizong got a group of fierce horses, which were extremely difficult to tame. Wu Zetian was waiting by his side, and Tang Taizong asked her for countermeasures. Wu Zetian said she could tame the horse, but she needed three things: a whip, an iron rod and a dagger. Begin to beat it with a whip, and if the horse refuses to obey, hit it on the head with an iron rod, and if it refuses, cut its neck with a dagger. Since then, Taizong has alienated her.

In AD 649, Emperor Taizong became seriously ill. At this time, Wu Zetian was 25 years old, and he had been in the palace for 12 years before he knew it, but he was still only a talented person. As a woman, her talents and ambitions could not be displayed, and she saw that her great youth was about to be buried in this deep palace.

When Li Shimin was seriously ill, Wu Zetian and Li Zhi hooked up. After the death of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, according to custom, Wu Zetian and Li Shimin’s other concubines who had no children entered the Ganye Temple as nuns. At this time, Li Zhi became the emperor.

A stepmother who is a nun and a son who is an emperor, it seems No more meeting.

A Poem’s Counterattack

Tang Gaozong Li Zhi usually likes to recite poems and compose poems when he has nothing to do. Essentially, he is a literary youth. The rivalry between the queen of the harem and Concubine Xiao Shu made him upset. At this time, Wu Zetian, who was far away in Ganye Temple, wrote a poem for Li Zhi.

Ruyi Niang

Tang: Wu Zetian

Seeing Zhu Chengbi thinking, haggard and fragmented as Yijun.

I don’t believe it.

Translation:

I have been thinking of you very much recently. Thinking of the dazed look and confusion, I mistakenly see red as green; Because I miss you so much.

I miss you but can’t see you, I can only wash my face with tears all day. I sent you a dress, the pomegranate dress we wore when we first met. If you don’t believe me, open the box and look at the splotches of tears on the dress.

This poem is very well written!

The first two lines of the poem express the pain of lovesickness.

“Looking at Zhu Chengbi” is quoted from the last two lines of “The Night Sorrows Showing Zhubin Poems” written by Wang Sengru of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Through the contrast of the two colors, it is a metaphor for the desolation of being alone and being alone.

“Thinking” was first created by Wu Zetian. In the past, there were only “Snows” (Tang Gaoshi’s “Farewell to Dong Da”: The North Wind Blows Wild Goose Snows) and “Rain” (Tang Dumu’s “Qingming”: Qingming The seasons are rainy.)

Wu Zetian visualized the invisible and intangible things of missing, which can better reflect his continuous longing for Li Zhi.

“The haggard and dismemberment become the memory of the king”, expressing the heart directly, the image of a woman who is thinner than the “yellow flower” is vivid on the paper, and the picture is full of sense.

The last two lines of the poem describe Wu Zetian’s true temperament. You may not believe these words, but the pomegranate skirt can testify.

“Pomegranate skirt” comes from “Wuqi Song” by Liang Yuandi Xiao Yi: “Furong is a skirt with pomegranate”. In this poem by Emperor Liang Yuan, the “pomegranate skirt” is unusual, it represents love and marriage.marriage. The “pomegranate skirt” sent to Li Zhi may be a testimony to the love between the two. Wu Zetian wanted to use the pomegranate skirt to recall Li Zhi’s original memory.

In Li Bai’s “Sauvignon Blanc”: “If you don’t believe in a heartbroken concubine, go back and look in front of the mirror” is very similar to the last two sentences. It is said that after Li Bai’s wife saw Li Bai’s poem, she told Li Bai that you didn’t listen to it. Did you say Empress Wu’s poem? After Li Bai heard this, he was “rejoiced”. Perhaps Li Bai’s wife questioned Li Bai’s plagiarism of Wu Zetian’s two sentences, and Li Bai felt that it was a shame.

I believed you were love, so I did that with you What kind of thing, did you forget what happened under the pomegranate skirt? What about your promise to me? Did you eat it and wipe it clean?

Well, a beautiful poem, which finally turned yellow.

This poem is just right!

If Wu Zetian wrote this every day as soon as she entered the Ganye Temple, everyone would think it was fake. She wrote this poem about a year after she entered the Ganye Temple. Just imagine, a talented and beautiful person The woman tells you the pain of lovesickness, how many people can’t feel compassion, let alone the old lover Li Zhi?

Li Zhi has to work on state affairs during the day, and at night, he has to face a fight between two women. He is bored. In this palace, no one can understand. Wu Zetian’s poem was sent at just the right time. After reading it, Li Zhi was very ashamed and remembered the love of fish and water with Wu Zetian in the past.

This poem binds the hearts of two lonely people together again.

Later, Emperor Gaozong brought Wu Zetian back to the palace, and he was alone She is alone. After Li Zhi died, Wu Zetian became the only female emperor in Chinese history by virtue of her talent and political talent.

If Wu Zetian had not written this poem, he might have died alone in the Ganye Temple.

Wu Zetian must have been in his old age, recalling his own life, he would definitely feel that it was not Yuan Tiangang’s prophecy that saved him, but his original poem, and more importantly his own destiny. Unyielding attitude towards life that is actively striving for the future.

Beethoven said: I want to hold the throat of fate, it Never make me submit.

This sentence, give it to yourself, and give it to everyone who has read this article.

I hope you will get rid of the shackles of fate as soon as possible and hold the throat of fate. A desperate turnaround, a counterattack in life.