We always hear that China is a country of many mysteries, but also patriarchal machismo, I will make this post to show you this curious story of the only monarch of a country with mystical tradition.
By the time Zetian was born the Confucian patriarchy ensured that women had lost most of their rights in relation to political life, the choice of a husband with total freedom and free self-determination. But when she was only 14 years old she entered the Haren of Emperor Taizong who would be the father of her future husband.
A scandalous fact was denounced by the Chinese society to be a single girl lover of two monarchs but little by little and thanks to his intelligence and beauty climbing achievement to marry the emperor.
It was in 690 when she gave a coup d'état and decided to name herself "Emperadora" and not Empress, a title that would give her the absolute power of all China. Wu had allies who were assuming the charges little by little until they met a team of loyalists, who assured him of power.
It seems that the Empress had a great character that subjected her to strong criticism from society, but thanks to this character I also achieve the respect of Chinese women.
The throne of the Dragon
The character of the emperress was demonstrated after governing for more than a decade in the most rigid country in the world, helped to expand the territory of the empire, improved education and the army even made available to all Chinese citizens, copper boxes for all the territory so that they could deposit in them the anonymous denunciations of everything that they did not agree or needed to demand from the emperress.
Wu was never overthrown despite numerous attempts, in fact she died shortly after abdicating to leave her son Zhongzong in power.
The emperress is still remembered to be part of the golden age of China, and be an example that women could also be very powerful