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Basic definition: the words used in the name. Same as "photo". Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty chose this word for her name. The sun and the moon are flying in the sky and shining on the earth.
Origin: The word "Qi" was chosen by Qin Ke one year before Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor (Qi was not created by Wu Zetian). As recorded in Zi Zhi Tong Jian, in November of the first year of Yongchang (689, Wu Zetian was 65 years old), assistant minister of Fengge Hedong lived and changed the twelve characters of "heaven" and "earth" to offer. The queen mother chose a word after reading it, renamed it "Qi" and renamed the imperial edict "Tianxia".
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The origin of the word "coffin";
Wu Zetian was brilliant since she was a child. She followed her mother Yang's "learning poetry" and "reading history and drawing pictures", and her thoughts were like a tide. She is really knowledgeable. When she became emperor, she created nineteen new words, which were promulgated and popularized all over the world, and were called "Zetian New Words". In this word 19, there is the word "qi".
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a courtier named Zong Qinke, who was from Zhou Pu, Shaanxi, and was related to Wu Zetian. He had been in contact with Wu Jiayou since he was a child, and knew that Wu Zetian was originally named "Wu Zhao". When Wu Zetian was queen, like many courtiers, she admired Wu Zetian's ability to govern the country and often went out of the palace to persuade Wu Zetian to be emperor.
At that time, Wu Zetian was strongly opposed by some courtiers when he became emperor, so there was great resistance. It is said that there is no precedent for a woman to be an emperor. Wu Zetian wanted to be emperor because of incest, disharmony between Yin and Yang, and the inversion of Gan and Kun. What's more, she called it "the hen crows and the loser dies".
In order to create public opinion for Wu Zetian as emperor and refute the opposition's remarks, Zong created the word "Qi" and presented it to Wu Zetian in the harem. He told Wu Zetian that the word not only means that the sun and the moon shine all over the world, but more importantly, it also means that Yin and Yang are one, which is in line with her feminine mentality when she was emperor and homophonic with her name "Zhao".
Wu Zetian needs help and support at this time. She was very happy when she heard what she said about living in Qin Ke. She immediately adopted the opinion of living in Qin Ke and changed her name from "Wu Zhao" to "Wu Zhao".
In the first year of God's will (AD 690), 67-year-old Wu Zetian became emperor. New words created by imperial edict are named after coffins. It can be seen that since Wu Zetian claimed to be the emperor, she has openly used the name of "Qi", so there is a record in the history books that "the emperor followed the Wu family and was taboo".
Later, because the word "Qi" was the name of the emperor, people were afraid to write its name directly, so they wrote the word "Sun and Moon" at the top of the word "Qi" as "Mu Mu Pastoral". It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty that the "Pastoral Department" in Zhengzitong written by Zhang Zilie was corrected under the item "Originally from the Sun and Moon, not from Pastoral".