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History Tea Time

Empress Wu Zetian of China

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Empress Wu Zetian rose from royal concubine to become the only female ruler in China’s 2,000 years of imperial history. Today she is seen as ruthless, tyrannical and willing to murder her own family to hold onto the throne. However this female leader has suffered from a millennium of bad propaganda. Many of the shocking and devious actions she took to claim and hold power overshadow the good she did for her people. Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091781568503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyteatimelindsayholiday/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@historyteatime Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating episodes! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Lau Tzu Ehru by Doug Maxwell #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0

Hello and welcome to history tea time.

0:49.2

I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.

0:58.0

Queens of the world Empress Wu Zetian of China

1:02.0

Empress Wu Zechian rose from royal concubine

1:07.0

to become the only female ruler in China's 2,000 years of imperial history.

1:13.6

Today, she is seen as ruthless, tyrannical, and willing to murder her own family to hold on to power.

1:20.6

However, this female leader has suffered from a millennium of bad propaganda.

1:26.6

Many of the shocking and devious actions she took to claim

1:30.3

and hold the throne overshadow the good she did for her people. Wu May was born February 17,

1:39.3

624, the year of a total solar eclipse throughout China, an event imbued with monumental significance.

1:47.0

The Wu's were a wealthy family who lived in the Shinsie province of West Central China.

1:53.0

May's father, Wu Shihuei, was a timber baron and her mother was a member of the powerful noble Yang family. The household frequently hosted

2:02.6

Li Yuan, the governor of the Shinsie province. When Li Yuan overthrew the sitting emperor to become

2:10.2

Emperor Gao Zhu, he remembered his friend Wu Shihue and made him a governor. Wu Shiwei had a unique appreciation for his

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