Sui and Tang · Ruler

Empress Wu 天后

Tianhou

Attested AD 690 - AD 705

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Empress Wu was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 690 to AD 705 天后朝
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 14

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 14

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passage 14
A prophecy circulated during her reign about a two-horned calf and sixty years
Mode named-source-report
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 3, passages 14-15

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 3Volume 3 Book of Later Liang 3: Taizu Annals 3 · 1 passage

天后朝有讖辭云：「首尾三鱗六十年，兩角犢子自狂顛，龍蛇相鬥血成川。」 In the reign of Empress Wu a prophecy ran: "Head and tail, three scales, sixty years; the two-horned calf runs wild; dragons and serpents battle until rivers run red."