Wu Zetian, a legendary woman in Chinese history, she is the first of the earth and the empress of Weiyi, which is extremely rare in the entire period of more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasty rule in China, and no matter what surprises you in her, you don't have to pay too much attention to her. And because of her legendary life, she has left too many battles for future generations. Whether the records of the "New Tang Dynasty Book" and the "Zizhi Tongjian" are true, why many conflicts exist, and whether the historians at that time have truly recorded them and left us a real empress, it seems that the truth and the record may be very different. And for us, studying the deeper reasons behind it and discovering the origin of the matter may be more exciting than **, romance.
Teacher Meng Xianshi's "Wu Zetian Research", a total of 22 chapters, each chapter focuses on the word "research", not a simple introduction to Wu Zetian, but a synthesis of the "New Tang Dynasty Book", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other historical books on Wu Zetian's records, put forward a lot of personal views and opinions.
Mr. Guo Moruo pointed out that he was born in Lizhou, and there are many scholars who support his views, and scholars who oppose it will also put forward their own views and explanations. The author put forward his own opinion, about Wu Zetian's place of birth and the year of birth and death, because the evidence has a certain ambiguity and relativity, and the information has an insufficient side, so there is room for debate. Evidence, how to view all kinds of evidence, especially the evidence of opposing views, is the core question of historiography, which is very important in such a debate. Similarly, Professor Meng pointed out that compared to the place of birth, as far as the Chinese in the Middle Ages were concerned, the place of birth was completely negligible, unless the place of birth was the hometown, because the hometown was the concept that people valued at that time. Hometown is not a simple concept of hometown, but is closely connected with the kinship system and local culture. So, does Wu Zetian in history think that "Bashu is my hometown"?The existing historical materials all prove that Shanxi Wenshui is Wu Zetian's hometown, and Wu Zetian recognizes only one hometown, that is, Taiyuan Wenshui. The controversy over the issue of birthplace has overshadowed the issue of Wu Zetian's hometown, and the issue of the empress's hometown is what Wu Zetian's research should pay more attention to.
In short, every chapter of this tome of history is worth reading carefully, and through this book, we can also see the research on the new historiography that the author wants to convey to us.