One of the words was specially created for Wu Zetian, and it is "Qi", which is exactly what Wu Zetian wanted: the sun and the moon are in the sky, shining all over the world. Wu Zetian immediately fell in love with this word and took it as her own name.
For thousands of years, we have called her Wu Zetian. Actually, Wu Zetian is not her name, and Wu Zetian's real name has not been handed down. Nobody knows what her real name is. Later, she used this newly coined word as her name, namely Wu Zhao.
Wu Zetian's Calligraphy Background
Wu Zetian is not only proficient in historical poetry, but also in calligraphy. Especially good at flying white books and cursive scripts. The so-called "flying white" is calligraphy characterized by white strokes, which is extremely difficult, but it looks extremely elegant.
Wu Zetian wrote the names of ministers in a white notebook and gave them. Some ministers said in the above table: "You bite the hand that feeds you, write a flying white notebook, give the ministers their names, kneel in a treasure, and wear a Wen Qiong, which seems to be a test of the five gods. Crown six articles and the first one, covered with eight styles and lonely money, Zhong You struggled and difficult to compare, "English is absolutely hamstrung and caught." Then know that God is sacred and all wisdom will be shared. Versatile, always fragrant.
On the fourth day of February in the second year of the reign of Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty (699), Wu Zetian went from Luoyang to Songshan to meditate. When she came back, she lived in the Prince Xiansheng Temple in Lushan and wrote an inscription and a book for her. On the surface, the inscription describes the story of Zhou Lingwang's ascension to immortality, but in fact it praises the prosperity of Wu Zhou. The brushwork is graceful and smooth, and the meaning is vertical and horizontal.
The inscription "Monument to the Immortal Prince" is written in "flying white" with white strokes. There are 33 lines of inscriptions, each with 66 words. Running script and cursive script alternate with each other and approach cursive script. Famous calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty, Xue Ji and Zhong Shaojing, wrote the inscriptions You Xian Pian and You Xian Pian.
Calligraphy lovers in past dynasties regarded the Monument to the Immortal Prince as a treasure of calligraphy art. This monument is extremely cursive and has a side edge, and it still has a certain quaint atmosphere.