One day, while enjoying the snow, Wu Zetian gambled with Shangguan Waner and recited poems. Shangguan Waner wrote a poem "Snow", and Wu Zetian drank a glass of wine. Drinking and drinking, suddenly there was a fragrant smell. It turned out that Chimonanthus praecox was in bloom. Wu Hou felt very happy and whimsically thought that all the flowers in the garden should be as open as Chimonanthus praecox, so he ordered to prepare for it and prepare to go to see the flowers with the princess. At this moment, the princess said, "Flowers bloom at different times, and now it's not spring. How can there be flowers?" Chimonanthus praecox was originally a winter flower, and it is normal to bloom at this time. " The princess is an understanding princess who knows that nature is sometimes orderly. But Wu Hou didn't listen to this one, and he felt that he was "helped by the Holy Son of Heaven", so it was not a problem to seize the artificial fortune. Of course, the cruel reality gave this comrade who thinks that man can conquer nature a loud slap in the face. Fortunately, there were eunuchs who came to Wu Hou's court. "According to the handmaiden, some Hua Xian didn't know that Viva was coming to enjoy the flowers, so they waited on him in the future. Just now, the handmaiden has declared the sacred will to the flowers. If Viva personally gives another imperial decree, it will naturally bloom tomorrow. " So Wu Hou started to write down four sentences: I swam to the Garden in the Ming Dynasty, and I quickly reported to the Spring that the flowers must be released overnight, so I don't want to be urged by the morning breeze. Everyone knows the rest. When I came the next day, flowers were blooming everywhere. It was really a splendid place. Looking closely, only the peony is in bud. So Wu Hou was furious, thinking that she was the thickest to peony at ordinary times, but peony was so ungrateful, and even ordered peony to be banished to Luoyang after being branded with charcoal fire. "Therefore, only Luoyang is the most prosperous peony in the world."

Later, after careful cultivation by Luoyang people, the flowers became redder and brighter, so later generations named them "Luoyang Red". Due to her hobbies and influence, during her administration, classics, history, literature, music, dance, astronomy, mathematics and other undertakings were very developed. The National History Museum edited 1 volumes of Records of the Emperor Gaozong and an unfinished Tang Shi. Private history books are also extremely prosperous, including Yao Ai's "Current Affairs", which is dedicated to military affairs; There is Liu Zhiji's Shi Tong, which expounds the theory of history.

Wu Zetian also ordered the editing of Three Religions and Zhu Ying. The three religions are Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. "Three religions and Zhu Ying" is a collection of famous sayings of three religions. She ordered Zhang Changzong to gather 26 people, including Li Qiao, Yan Chaoyin, Xu Yanbo, Zhang Shuo, Song Zhiwen, Shen Quanqi, and Fu Jiamo, to "write a collection in one thousand three hundred volumes". These editors are called "Zhu Ying Bachelor". Zhu Ying's bachelor are both poets and scholars. During the course of writing books, "talking day and night, gathering poems" was a grand gathering of court poets in Wu Zetian's period, which was a very temporary scenery. Cui Rong compiled their poems and integrated five volumes of Zhu Ying's Bachelor Collection. History says: "At that time, the literati were distinguished by Shen and Song, and every time they used beautiful words, they were glad after inviting women, and Shangguan Waner dyed them and envied them in the ruling and opposition, so they changed them for a while."

Wu Zetian's period was a period when the literature of the Tang Dynasty got rid of the accumulated habits of the Six Dynasties and took on a new look. Wu Zetian herself can write poems, and there are still 46 existing poems. Her poems also have fresh and memorable lines, such as "floating bamboo leaves in the wine and writing hibiscus on the cup". At that time, she often traveled. Once she saw the good scenery, it was not enough to improvise her own poems, and she also ordered her officials to serve peace.

At that time, there was also a large-scale poetry contest, in which "grabbing robes at the dragon gate" was a legendary story in the poetry circle. When Wu Zetian was traveling in Longmen, Luoyang, he ordered his ministers to write poems, and Zuo Shi was the first to become a scholar. Wu Zetian gave them a brocade robe. Later, when Song Zhiwen wrote a poem, Wu Zetian read it, which was greatly appreciated. She thought it was more than the former, so she won the brocade robe and gave it to Song Zhiwen.

if there are good people in the world, there will be great things in the world. Wu Zetian's love of poetry and courtesy to poets directly affect the atmosphere of the whole society.

when Wu Zetian reformed the imperial examination system, she decided to use poetry to recruit scholars. As a result, the wind of writing poems has swept the country, from the imperial court to the five-foot children, and poetry has become a common practice. History says that Wu Zetian has been in the world for 2 years. "All the officials and officials have reached their goals with articles, followed them for a long time, and slept in the wind."

It's probably unique in human history to choose officials on the basis of good poetry and make it a long-term system!

Hundreds of officials are proud of writing poems, while students take writing poems as their service, while grass people enjoy writing poems. As soon as this atmosphere was opened, the poetic style in the early Tang Dynasty changed, completely getting rid of the style of palace poetry, and the meter gradually became perfect. Qi Liang's elegance faded away, and Han Wei's character revived. A number of star-rated poets such as Li Qiao, Su Weidao, Cui Rong, Du Shenyan, Shen Quanqi, Song Zhiwen, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin and Chen Ziang appeared, paving a broad road for the prosperity of poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.