Autumn and spring come two swallows

People often think of Empress Wu Zetian or Empress Cixi when it comes to ruling the state behind a curtain. In fact, before them, there were many precedents for the Empress Dowager to rule the state in court. What's more, even the Empress dowager to rule the state behind a curtain was eliminated and directly controlled the state in court.

It's hard for a man to stay sober when it comes to power. Women are even more, women when the country, left a very deep impression in history, gender inequality, when looking up into looking down, the inner madness can not be contained, once the key of power opens the Pandora's box of disaster, stimulate women's ambition, desire. Men's discontent, unrest, mutiny, war, blood. All kinds of SINS roll in, the wind blows the waves, the waves are empty, and very few people can consciously hold themselves. It's harder to keep clean and uncontested in the midst of bloodshed.

There are few women who can truly control this madness, and even fewer who can glide through the peaks of power. Wu Zetian allowed the cruel officials, but also her lack of confidence no way. After all, it is not one's own private affairs, so how can one's own desires override national artifacts?

She was always an anomaly, and it was an anomaly that she finally changed her dynasty and became the rightful emperor. Ruled as a male monarch, forgetting about gender. She did not make the country won weak, on the contrary, in her hands to promote the "Zhenguan governance" laid the "Kaiyuan prosperous times. But her insatiable demand for power, her greed for it and her ruthlessness towards her opponents are all the same as those who love it.

The reason why Wu Zetian is mentioned is that after reading Yuefu's "Yang Baihua", I suddenly remembered that Wu Zetian and Empress Dowager Hu in the Northern Wei Dynasty were among the few powerful female politicians who would write love poems to their lovers and write them with great literary talent.

I have to Wu Meiniang that song "wishful mother" and heart swaying: see Zhu Chengbi have thought, haggard fragmented to recall you, do not believe that often tears, open the box to test.

-- A woman who would live and die in Daming Palace and never blink an eyelash would write such heartfelt and touching love poems in the quiet night of Ganye Temple. The difference between these mistakes is huge, which makes people wonder whether people have changed, the environment has changed, or people have not changed. They just show different pursuits and ideas at different stages.

All she wanted then was to go back to the palace, where the mistress of those days had been so busy, and her ambition, if any, was only a woman's ambition, to her lover and to be pamped by him. But then she began to feel the joy of power, which was better than a gentle smile to a man, better than the pleasure of a third palace. More ambition gradually strong and break the ground, then the Wu Mei, is not the emperor husband, the empress can meet the position. She matured like a lioness, and as her body and mind matured rapidly, so did her appetite for hunting.

Empress Dowager Hu, Hu Chong Hua. Compared with Empress Wu Zetian, this woman's experience and political achievements can only be described as ordinary. And yet, as women, they have something in common.

Empress Dowager Hu Chenghua was born Hu Chenghua, the daughter of Hu Guozhen, the Stu of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is said that when she was born, the house was full of red light, which was strange to people at that time. She has an aunt when a nun (professional nun, but according to her often to the court to the autumn wind and to the niece to do sales advertising behavior, this nun is very good at speculation, the degree of human enthusiasm is no less than the "Water Margin" in the Wangpu) often to the palace to preach. Tell the palace people that I have a niece, who is both beautiful and beautiful, and she was born with a different appearance...

The gossiper would love to hear it, let alone a court lady with too much time on her hands, and there was something mysterious about the person who was spreading it.

The so-called room full of red light, according to Mr. Boyang is a nonsense, is there not a god with a searchlight in the room survey? The records about the birth and life stories of emperors and concubines in official history are not trustworthy. The perfunctorily told lies and the red light in the room are also old formulas in order to show off the difference of this person. Maybe they are rumors deliberately released by the Hu family in order to raise their value.

Regardless of the true circumstances, Hu succeeded in gaining the attention of Emperor Yuanque, who summoned her to the palace and conferred the title of Chenghua Empress.

For an ordinary woman, getting married is usually the end of her life, while for those who are destined to enter the imperial chamber, getting married (marrying the emperor) is just the beginning of her life. At that time, the harem of the Northern Wei Dynasty was very turbulent. The first empress of Xuanwu Emperor Yu was of noble birth and smooth character. She was poisoned by Gao, who entered the palace later, and Gao was later made empress and took advantage of the harem.

Empress Gao did not pay much attention to Hu's entry into the palace. First, Hu's rank in the palace was not high, and it was difficult to pose any threat to the well-established empress. The situation is similar to that of Wu Meiniang. More than a Hu Chong Hua and more than a palace maid is not much different; Another and most important reason was that the Northern Wei carried out the policy of "keeping the calf and removing the mother". Once a son was made a prince, he was killed, whether he was a queen or a concubine. This cruel regulation from our wise and cruel Han Tianzi Liu Che, Liu Che old, to establish young son Liu Fuling, and worry about the emperor young emperor mother good at government, then ordered the death of the hook of lady. This barbaric policy, which was practiced only occasionally in the Han Dynasty, was carried out as an ancestral system in the Northern Wei, and eight imperial mothers died before Hu Chonghua. Therefore, Empress Gao calculated that it was best that Hu Chonghua could not bear children. If she gave birth to a Lin, she would be executed. Without her action, she, as the emperor's mother, had custody of the child. Empress Dowager Feng and Emperor Xiaowen were examples, so she was confident. One more Hu Chong Hua to help her share the risk why refuse?

In the harem concubines are reluctant to give birth to a son for the emperor, the emperor will no longer have the dilemma, Hu Chong Hua is very different and touching, she is lucky to be pregnant, she bravely made a vow, God, please let me have a son, as long as the emperor does not have a son, I will die?

In no touch to power, she is astute and sophisticated innocent girl, lucky to be born, heroic and generous, never will children's personal feelings against the heart, her person is really like the song praise "Ji moonlight wind Yao Yu Tang" is a human temperament, but when she holds the power of the wand can not be put down, her resolute and bold astute, all become things to kill people.

Liu Che this man ruthless when too ruthless, sentimental when too sentimental. He has one principle: he can kill anyone and anything that touches his political interests. If Hu Chong Hua met Han Wudi, I am afraid that only and hook Yi lady turned into a wisp of beautiful soul in the tomb, the moon floor nowhere words desolate. Hu Chonghua was lucky to meet Yuanke, the eighth emperor of the Northern Wei. He was a deeply Buddhist and kind man, and more importantly, he could not bear to see such a beautiful and brave woman leave him. Sometimes, a woman's courage is also very touching. Hu's sacrifice must have moved the emperor, who was so lonely and fearful that he would not have an heir, that he made Yuan Xu, Hu's son, crown prince and abolished the rule that he should kill his mother. Whether it is done for love or for gratitude is hard to say. In any case, the brutality of more than a hundred years has finally come to an end. But Hu Chonghua later as a comedy to prove that the ancestors of the system actually had a reason to exist. The twilight king's eyes are open. A stable political situation could save countless lives.

After Yuanque's death, the crown prince Yuanxu ascended the throne as Emperor Xiaoming, and Hu Chonghua was promoted to Empress Dowager by Guipin Ye. When the emperor was very young, Empress Dowager Hu ruled from the sidelines and became the de facto ruler of the empire. She also said I call his purport to letter, however, is the northern wei xianbei ethnic countries, although after localization, is less critical standards, in early han dynasty kowtow, tears zero, PinJiSiChen, actually also is nothing like to call, the Confucian scholars if I met a iron lady like wu zetian, one pound a tuning, jiangshan come to hand, They just go home and chew their gums.

At the beginning of her reign, Empress Hu was statesmanlike and wise. She required a "litigant van" to be built, mounted inside and with a curtain outside, to regularly patrol the busy areas such as Yunlong Men and Qian Qiu Men to accept the litigants and redress the cases, and was promptly adjudicated or handed over properly, which was well received by the government and the people. All prefecture-recommended filial piety scholar, by her since the inspection of character and knowledge, and then the appointment of quantity, generally considered very fair. Unfortunately, she became more and more disgraceful. In the words of Mr. Bo Yang, "Since the Empress Dowager Hu came to power, in addition to the construction of Buddhist temples and statues, almost all of her energy was used to harm the empire. Much of the rage of the 1920s was provoked or triggered by her."

Ah, such a woman as Wu Zetian is amazing and brilliant, unparalleled in the world. Empress Dowager Hu, the harem struggle intelligence and courage are first-class, but once the whole empire power in her hands for too long, will be powerless, confused. It is not she who wields power but it wields her. And this woman, too easily disturbed by lust, conspired with her lover to kill her own son, and was really confused about priorities.

She also had a male pet, the Southern and northern Dynasties open atmosphere for later generations can not imagine, bearing the rest of the continuation is the Tang Dynasty. The wind of openness made later generations stunned, but in the chaotic times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, people's hearts were in turmoil, and the collapse of rites and music brought about the swaying of thoughts. The openness always had the meaning of lewdness and indulgence, and sometimes it was in conflict with the original ethics. The Tang Dynasty was physically and mentally strong, and its people were not weaker than people in body and mind.

She was not yet the kind of person who forgot her gender for the sake of power. The needs of women were more practical and urgent for her in middle age. More unexpected is as the queen mother she was lovelorn, so, you see a sad lingering Northern Dynasty folk song was born. Empress Hu expressed her thoughts and expectations with the drift of poplar flowers in late spring. With puns, the poem was cleverly conceived, which was different from the ordinary rough and forthright folk songs of the Northern Dynasty.

Yangchun two and three, willow Qi flower; Spring breeze night into boudoir, Yang Hua drifting down south home; Feeling out of the home foot weak, picked up tears from the heart; Autumn to spring to double swallow, willing to bit the flowers into the nest.

The dream spirit is accustomed to no detention, and stepping on the young flowers across the Xie Bridge, this is a sentence in the Xiaoshan Ci, anchor anchor Small anchor had such a beautiful dream as a continuation of the emotion, I don't know whether Empress Dowager Hu had such a dream?

The "Yang Hua" that Queen Hu sang and missed was indeed a real person. It was Yang Baihua, the son of Yang Dayan, the famous general of Northern Wei and Duke of Chouchi. He was outstanding in martial arts and had a big body. The Empress dowager Hu intended to him, recruited into the palace and the affair, but Yang Baihua is the son of general, due to the empress Dowager power between the bed two times is just, let him do a male pet is not allowed, plus the emperor growing up, the empress Dowager Hu is a restless. Yang Baihua thought that it was quite unwise to tie up a future life in a woman's skirt. Can't I hide from a woman like Empress Hu? Soon he led his troops south to the Liang Dynasty. His move proved wise. Empress Hu was later killed by Zhu Errong, a high-ranking official, and thrown into the Yellow River with the new emperor. If Yang Baihua followed in the side of the Empress Dowager Hu, death is certain inevitable, the key is, dead and insult home.

Yang Baihua as the first (possibly) in order to escape the fate of the general fled to other countries, but also renamed Yang Hua, is also a great story in history, "beauty disaster" four words on some women is really just as its share. The Empress Dowager Hu sang songs for her runaway lover, which made people sing and spread through the ages. At the same time, it also revealed a woman's desire and persistence for feelings.

However, my wife is better than my concubine, and my concubine is better than stealing. I am still glad that Yang Hua timely fall to the South, a clear name. If he stays in Empress Dowager Hu's nest, the wind and rain will destroy the flowers and willows. A man should be calm and thoughtful. Without Yang Hua's decisive departure, there would be less of a popular Yuefu today, and this period of history would also be less of a lot of room for contemplation.