Some people say that she showed power, manipulation of politics, disrupting the dynasty; some people say that she is brilliant, poetry and writing, affecting a generation of literary style; others say that she is obscene palace, private life is unbearable.
How exactly is she a woman, and what kind of story? Please go down to see it ......
1 born from a famous family born in misfortune
The chancellor of the Tang dynasty during the high emperor Shangguan Yi, is a traditionally corrupt people, for the time is still the empress of the wu zetian holding the dynasty is very accustomed to, and often against the empress of the wu. He was accused of plotting against Emperor Wu Zetian and was executed along with his son Shangguan Tingzhi, and his whole family was plagiarized because of the abolition of the empress's edict that he prepared for Emperor Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty.
Although her daughter-in-law Zheng and granddaughter Shangguan Wan'er were spared from death, they were also sent to the palace to be used as servant girls.
The young Shangguan Wan'er was forced to take on the identity of a slave girl before she knew what was going on. Shangguan Wan'er's mother understood that if she wanted her daughter to get rid of her status as a servant girl, she had to have talents and abilities that were different from her status as a servant girl.
Shangguan Wan'er was very intelligent by nature, and under the careful cultivation of her mother Zheng, she was able to learn history, write poems, and understand official affairs, and she had a high level of talent at a very young age.
2 into the master of the inner palace in charge of power
Because of the outstanding talent, only thirteen years old Shangguan Waner Wu Zetian valued, exempt from her status as a slave girl, and was appointed as the Tang Emperor's talent, in charge of the palace edicts, that is, specializing in the drafting of the work of the imperial edicts. Wu Zetian himself after the emperor, the work of the proposed edict is also mostly by Shangguan Waner to complete.
Once, Shangguan Wan'er because of disobedience, committed a capital offense, but because of Wu Zetian's strong love of talent, Wu Zetian pardoned her death sentence, only to face tattooing punishment.
The so-called tattooed face, that is, tattooed on the face to indicate that they have committed a crime, Shangguan Wan Er in order to cover up the forehead tattoo, specially in the place of torture stabbed a plum blossom, but on the contrary, it looks more charming and attractive, in the harem caused the popularity of the red plum makeup.
The Shangguan Wan'er realized that it is not easy to survive in the palace, more careful and smooth, to Wu Zetian everywhere to please and cater to. The same woman, Wu Zetian and Shangguan Wan'er of course, between the less, and on the Shangguan Wan'er talent, Shangguan Wan'er soon became Wu Zetian's side of the first red, dealing with the hundreds of officials, the resolution of the Senate, mastered a very high political rights.
3 Zhongzong restored, then sealed Zhaorong
After the Shenlong coup, Wu Zetian abdicated, Wu Zetian's son, Tang Zhongzong once again became emperor. During Wu Zetian's reign, Shangguan Wan'er had already begun to curry favor with Tang Zhongzong, and after Wu Zetian's fall, Shangguan Wan'er was still standing in the tide of regime change, and continued to be trusted by Tang Zhongzong, specializing in the drafting of imperial edicts.
The Tang Emperor named Shangguan Wan'er as Zhaorong, so that, following the thirteen-year-old was named the Tang Emperor's talent, Shangguan Wan'er became the Tang Emperor's consort, married two to the emperor, one is Wu Zetian's husband, one is Wu Zetian's son. At the beginning Shangguan Wan'er was both Wu Zetian's secretary and the relationship between the concubine and the main house. Later Shangguan Wan'er married her original nominal son, Tang Zhongzong, and became Wu Zetian's daughter-in-law. It must be mentioned that Wu Zetian also once introduced his nephew Wu Sansi to Shangguan Wan'er.
4 Prophet vision against peace and happiness
Smooth Shangguan Wan'er is very political vision, very know how to find themselves a political partner and backing, she was first close to Wu Sansi, and then Wu Zetian in Dijian persuasion, give up the idea of establishing Wu Sansi as the Crown Prince, to welcome back to the Tang Zhongzong, and then she curried favor with the Tang Zhongzong. From Wu Zetian, to Wu Zetian's next emperor, her position is not affected in the slightest.
By the time of Emperor Zhongzong, the request of Princess Anle to establish an "Imperial Daughter", Shangguan Wan'er was also repeatedly discouraged, and even went so far as to drink poison to advise. Shangguan Wan'er through the Anle Princess of opposition to the Princess Taiping to express their own position, and later facts did prove to be Tang Xuanzong and Princess Taiping this side of the victory.
5 Death at the hands of Emperor Tang Xuanzong
When Emperor Tang Xuanzong teamed up with Princess Taiping to stage the Tanglong Coup and attacked the city, Shangguan Wan'er took out her own and Princess Taiping's proposed posthumous edicts to show that she was on Emperor Tang Xuanzong's side, but Emperor Tang Xuanzong still firmly killed her. Shangguan Wan'er's life also fell into this, completely fixed at the age of forty-seven.
6 Influence on the literary style of a generation
In addition to the political influence of the officialdom, as well as the later rumors of the unsightly private life, Shangguan Wan'er also had a very high achievement in the literary level. Shangguan Wan'er inherited and developed her grandfather Shangguan Yi's style of writing, emphasized the formal skills of poetry, valued the beauty of sound and rhetoric, and was good at reflecting the delicacy and subtlety of things.
Her poetry, both on the "Shangguan style" formal skills of inheritance, but also in the scope of the subject matter of poetry, lyrical features and style and temperament of the previous court poetry has exceeded the poetry from the early Tang dynasty court poetry of singing praises and virtues, beautiful mistakes and charming to the magnificent, perfect sound of the Sheng Tang dynasty, an important step forward. The first step in the process was the creation of a new poem, which was to be published in a new edition.
Her literary achievements have also been greatly recognized by later generations. The modern literary theorist Xie Wuliang said, "Wan Er inherited her ancestor, and all the bachelors competed with Hua Zao, Shen, Song should be system of works by Wan Er evaluation, and at that time to admire, and then become a custom, so the completion of the poem, Shangguan grandchildren have more credit also".