Female emperor – Wu-zetian

For Wu-zetian(UL-ZeTian), from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there is always a variety of awards, the perspective varies. Early in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor is due to all her children and grandchildren of an immediate and Confucian orthodoxy has not yet dominant, so at the time of Wu’s appraisal of relatively positive, more positive. However, as time goes on, especially by Sima Guang editor-in-chief of “Mirror”, Wu Shi harsh criticism. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism in China has dominated thinking, woman light of public opinion on the decision of the evaluation of the Empress Wu. For example, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, the famous thinker Wang Fu-zhi, Wu evaluation was “the spirits will not be tolerated, the subject of a total of resentment.” However, it is undeniable that the history of Empress Wu made a huge contribution.