Detailed explanation of Tuibei 60: The third image of Tuibei Tu: Bingyin (Empress Wu proclaimed herself emperor)

There are 60 images in the whole book of Tuibei Tu. The second image talks about the predictions of the twenty emperors of the Tang Dynasty, and all of them came true. The third image will tell the prophecy of Empress Wu becoming emperor. How does this Tuibei Tu make predictions? What the physiognomy column is going to introduce to you today is “The Third Image of Tuibei Tu: Bingyin”. Friends who are interested can learn about it!

【Prophecy】

The sun and the moon shine in the sky over the earth

Confusing and unsophisticated

【Song said】

Visit the King of Emptiness and enter the Emperor's Palace again

The branches are all gone, but the roots are still there. Who is the rooster crowing in the morning?

[The sun and the moon are in the sky, shining down on the earth] is the "曌" (pronounced: 照) in Wu Zhao's name, and it is also a pun, referring to Empress Wu's enthronement. Empress Wu's name was Zhao, and she invented the character "曌" herself. After her death, she was posthumously named "Zetian". It is customary to call her Wu Zetian, which is not standard.

[Complicated and confusing] comes from "The Ballad of Mulan" during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It originally meant that it was difficult to tell the gender of a rabbit, and was a metaphor for Hua Mulan dressing up as a woman. Later it came to refer to the complexity of things. This is a metaphor for the female emperor.

[Neither civil nor martial] implies that the heroine's surname is Wu.

[Practice the emptiness of all forms and colors at the King of Emptiness] "King of Emptiness" refers to Buddhism. Buddhists believe that "all the four elements are empty." It refers to the fact that Wu Zetian, as the concubine of Emperor Taizong of Tang, was forced to become a nun after his death.

[Once Returned to the Imperial Palace] Wu Zetian was later brought back to the palace from Ganye Temple by Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi.

[Even if the branches are uprooted, the roots remain] Wu Zetian killed almost all of her own children and the royal family with the surname Li. But the roots of Li Tang are still there. "Root" refers to Li Xian, the Emperor Zhongzong who restored the Tang Dynasty and the third son of Wu Zetian.

[The crow of the morning rooster is a male] refers to Wu Zetian's enthronement.

In the picture: the woman is holding a knife, which means that Wu Zetian killed too many people, from her own children, grandchildren, Li clan members, to relatives and ministers, and she also employed villains and cruel officials to kill people without restraint.

In the picture, a woman stands holding a sword. The text is: "The sun and the moon are in the sky, shining down on the earth, confusing, neither civil nor military. Visit the king of emptiness, the colors are empty, one day I return to the emperor's palace, the branches are uprooted but the roots are still there, who is the male at dawn crowing?"

The sentence "The sun and the moon are in the sky, shining down on the earth" in the text hints at Wu Zhao's name, and has the meaning of ruling the world and shining down on the earth.

"Complicated and confusing" is an idiom that comes from the story of Hua Mulan joining the army. The story tells that Mulan disguised herself as a man and served in the army for thirteen years. No one in the army knew that she was a girl, that is, no one could tell whether she was a man or a woman, a male or a female. Li Chunfeng used this to illustrate that Wu Zetian started out as a talented woman, and no one knew that she would later turn from a female to a male and become a female emperor.

"Pursuing the King of Emptiness, all forms are empty." Emperor Taizong, who valued his country, believed Li Chunfeng's prediction about women causing chaos in politics, and reluctantly gave up his love and stayed away from Wu Zetian. After the death of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi, who had admired Wu Zhao's beauty, ascended the throne and brought her into the palace, making her a Zhaoyi, fulfilling her wish of "returning to the emperor's palace overnight." After Wu Zetian entered the palace, she first used conspiracy to depose Queen Wang and took the position of Queen herself; then she ruled the country from behind the curtain, and was called the Emperor and Queen of Heaven together with Emperor Gaozong; after Emperor Gaozong's death, she deposed Emperor Zhongzong, officially proclaimed herself emperor, changed the country's name to Zhou, and killed and exiled a large number of Li Tang royal family members and ministers. At that time, Crown Prince Li Dan, born to Queen Wang, later Emperor Ruizong, was only a few years old. He was secretly sent to King Jiangxia Li Kaifang by the eunuch Du Hui and survived. This is another proof of the saying "even if the branches are uprooted, the roots remain."

"Cock-a-doodle-doo in the morning, which one is the male?" of course refers to Wu Zetian's enthronement as the emperor, which has the implication of turning female into male. The rooster in the morning rooster refers to the year of the rooster, and the year when Wu Zetian enthroned as the emperor was the Year of Yiyou, which is the year of the rooster.

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