How tall is Wu Zetian? She has a physical advantage, no wonder she can live long.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty was the biggest power, the country was rich, and the people's living standard was the highest in history. Without war, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, so their life expectancy increased. But even so, the average life expectancy of the Tang Dynasty was only 55 years old, and even if the emperor was over 60 years old, there were only a handful. Wu Zetian was the queen of Tang Gaozong. She didn't die until Tang Zhongzong. Wu Zetian lived to be 8 1 year old and died without cause.

There is a story in Tang Xinyu and Old Tang Shu. When Yuan Tiangang entered the palace, Wu Zetian's mother brought a face, but Wu Zetian dressed as a woman. After reading it, Yuan Tiangang said, "This son has the eyes of a dragon and the neck of a phoenix. If he is a woman, he can be a monarch. Everyone else laughed. Since the first emperor, he has never heard of a woman as emperor.

From this story, we can see that Wu Zetian doesn't have the feminine beauty we imagined, but looks like a man. However, there is no portrait of Wu Zetian in history. On the contrary, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty once recorded that there was a Buddha statue of Lushena in Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, which was based on the appearance of Wu Zetian. It should be true that Wu Zetian is a woman or a man.

The second is Wu Zetian's tall man. In ancient times, people in the Central Plains were not as tall as they are now. The average height of women is 1.5 m, and that of men is 1.6 m, but Wu Zetian is taller than some men. In fact, the ancients grew tall not because of bad genes, but because they could not eat. This is why Shandong people in ancient coastal areas are called Dahan in Shandong, because they eat more fish, and protein is higher, which is more nutritious than inland.

The same is true of Wu Zetian. His father is a famous local businessman, and Wu Zetian entered the palace at the age of fourteen, so his living standard is still very high, which laid a good physical foundation and made him grow taller. Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, the word "Wu Zetian 1.65 meters", coupled with her plump figure, had a feeling of standing out among the concubines.

Beauty in the Tang Dynasty was plump, not fat. Wu Zetian's weight is about 1.20 Jin, which may be normal weight, so Wu Zetian did not suffer from various diseases because of obesity, which became another reason why Wu Zetian could die naturally and live to 8 1 year, because many dignitaries in the Tang Dynasty died of obesity.

Our understanding of Wu Zetian's height, weight and appearance is mostly based on the records in ancient books and some calligraphy and paintings, but most of them have been artificially portrayed and processed, so they are not accurate. What does Wu Zetian look like? Perhaps only when Ganling sees the light of day, with the recovery of modern high technology, can we get a glimpse of the four beauties.