Nowadays, regardless of film and television or opera, randomly popped out of a queen or empress dowager of the strange woman, upholding the principle that as long as I'm not embarrassed embarrassment is you, open mouth is how to grieve. In fact, the word "mourning" is a recent invention, five thousand years of history, there has never been any one of the empress or empress dowager in the river ditch has called herself mourning, so the word mourning is only a kind of theater film and television call.
The word "mourning" first appeared in the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, and at first it was the princess who called herself "mourning", which is what she called herself after the death of her son-in-law.
The Western Han Dynasty book "Rituals and Miscellaneous Records" has a record: the sacrifice is called filial son and filial grandson, and the funeral is called mourning son and mourning grandson.
Ancient people called themselves "mourning son" when their parents died, and novel writers created the term "mourning family" based on the word "mourning son", which was later borrowed in the opera. Influenced by the opera, not all empress dowager and empress in the beginning of the movie and TV drama called themselves mourning family, only after the death of her husband so called. One is the memory of the late emperor, and the other is to explain their own situation, calling themselves poor people, no husband to mourn.
However, the fire of the palace fighting drama and crossing the drama so that the later costume drama completely let go of the self, regardless of whether her husband is alive or dead, the Queen and the Empress Dowager open and close their mouths have become the mourning family mourning family. Since the history of the Empress and the Empress Dowager do not call the mourning family, then how to call themselves? Anyway, it is not "I". How to call actually depends on the situation, history, there are some empress dowager, although already to the age of the square bouncing, but for a variety of reasons still can not enjoy the happiness in the harem, but also to listen to the government, such empress dowager, empress dowager and the emperor is generally the same, called himself as I.
The emperor's name is the same as the emperor's, but the empress dowager is not the same.
Such as the Western Han Dynasty filial piety Yuan Wang Huang Huang, Eastern Han Dynasty Xi Deng Huang, Northern Wei Dynasty Empress Feng, Tang Wu Zetian is a generation of "female me". Of course, most of the empress dowager, empress dowager is not necessary to listen to politics, have the freedom of square dance they call themselves "to". The old Buddha Cixi is very domineering, is extremely strong empress dowager, however, she is also just a curtain to listen to politics and did not come to the front of the stage, so also can only call themselves "to". Film and television dramas, after all, is just a play lack of historical rigor, but Tuyi Yiluo really lost.