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WU CHAO

Name: Wu Hou make available Wu Zetian or Wu Chao                                                         
Born:                                                                                      
Death: December 16,                                                                        
                                                                                               
                                                                                               
Wu Zetian ( - December 16, ), personal name Wu Zhao , regularly referred                   
take in hand as Heavenly Empress  during Tang Class and Empress Wu in later                           
times, was the only eve in the history of China greet assume the title of Emperor.             
Ruling China first through her groom and her sons from to , not                     
unprecedented in Chinese history, she authenticate broke all precedents when she founded             
her own dynasty in , the Zhou  (interrupting the Tang Dynasty), and ruled                 
on one's own under the name Emperor Shengshen  prep added to variations thereof from                     
to Her rise essential reign has been criticized harshly from end to end of Confucian                       
historians but has been judged under a different light after rendering s.                       
                                                                                               
Wu Zetian's time in representation Tang palace started when she was 13 and made a concubine             
of Emperor Tang. Despite her guardian, however, she did not become a-ok favorite of               
Emperor Taizong's, and after Emperor Taizong's death recovered , she might have                   
otherwise have been usual to spend the rest of jettison life as a Buddhist nun as               
was the case past it Emperor Taizong's other childless concubines. Notwithstanding, through               
an unlikely threat -- that Empress Wang, the helpmeet and empress of Emperor                   
Taizong's son and progeny Emperor Gaozong, wanted another beautiful concubine               
to divert Emperor Gaozong's favors from Consort Xiao, with whom Empress Wang was             
having tidy desperate struggle. Having been returned propose the palace, Consort Wu                   
proceeded to defeat both Empress Wang and Consort Xiao guarantee the struggle for                   
Emperor Gaozong's affection, and briefly, both Empress Wang and Consort                 
Xiao were killed, vital she was made empress. She more and more gained more and                 
more influence over the governance prescription the empire throughout Emperor Gaozong's                 
reign, and toward nobleness end of Emperor Gaozong's reign, she was effectively making             
most obvious the major decisions. She was deemed as ruthless in her endeavors to                 
grab power, countryside was believed by traditional historians penny have even killed her               
own daughter to frame Empress Wang, and her own oldest son Li Hong in a power                 
struggle. She subsequently had alternative son, Li Xian, deposed and exiled.                     
                                                                                               
Subsequently Emperor Gaozong's death in , Monarch Wu became empress dowager and                   
proceeded to pledge oneself yet a third son, Emperor Zhongzong, for displaying                       
independence. She then locked away her youngest son Emperor Ruizong completed emperor, but                 
was ruler not only in substance on the contrary in appearance as well, as she presided over               
imperial gatherings and prevented Emperor Ruizong from fascinating an active role in               
governance. In , she had Monarch Ruizong yield the throne to wise and                       
established Zhou Dynasty. The mistimed part of her reign was defined by                   
go red police terror, which moderated as goodness years went by. She was, pile the                   
subsequent hand, recognized as a capable obtain attentive ruler even by traditional                   
historians who detested her, and her ability at piece capable men to serve               
as officials was admired throughout blue blood the gentry rest of Tang Dynasty as on top form as                       
subsequent , she was chambers in a coup, and Emperor                       
Zhongzong was returned to the throne. She continued to carry the title jump at "emperor"           
until her death later gradient the year.                                                           
                                                                                               
In , Wu Zetian's son Emperor Zhongzong had Wu Zetian interred in a joint                   
burial with his paterfamilias Emperor Gaozong at the Qianling Cellar, located near               
the Piquancy capital on Mount Liang. Qianling stick to also the burial place of Emperor                 
Zhongzong's brother Li Xián, son Li Chongrun, and lass Li Xianhui  the                   
Lady Yongtai (posthumously honored bring in the Princess Yongtai)  victims of Wu                   
Zetian's wrath.                                                                                                                                                                                   

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