Why is the queen called Zitong?

There are three theories about the origin of Zitong in history.

1. In The Story of Hanwu (written by most people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties), Emperor Wudi once dreamed of a catalpa tree, and later he fell in love with Wei Zifu. Later, Wei Zifu became a queen, so later people called the queen Zitong.

The name Zitong has existed in popular novels for a long time. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, most of the first wives of princes contended for hegemony called themselves children (filial piety), but later people thought it was a great disrespect to the queen to call her filial piety.

Therefore, in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zi Tong appeared in popular literature. Later, people may think that the combination of children and children is not good-looking, so in the Ming Dynasty, there was a saying that children were called queens (children and children are homophonic).

3. In the eyes of the ancients, catalpa was the king of nobles in the wood, and it also had homophonic meaning, meaning that catalpa was the son. In ancient times, people thought that the queen should bear the responsibility of spreading branches and leaves, while in feudal dynasties, especially the royal family, children were the most important. Therefore, in order to cater to the children's psychological exuberance, the queen is called Zitong.

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The Queen's other names are Ai Jia.

In China ancient opera, after the death of her husband, the queen mourned for her family. However, only after the death of her husband can a queen or empress dowager call herself "homesick". It means that people who call themselves poor have no sorrow for their husbands. In ancient times, women focused on their husbands.

In addition, if you are not an imperial concubine or queen mother, you can't call it "bereavement" anyway. Previous emperors claimed to be unique, because they wanted to show that the emperor was unique in the world, and there could only be one emperor in the world.

Empress Dowager Cixi claimed to be "bereaved", but she lost her family because her husband died. She was only a person left by the "first emperor", so she meant to mourn the "first emperor". However, a queen whose husband is not dead will never claim to be so, calling her a concubine to the emperor, calling her a surname to courtiers and calling me directly. Saying that I am homesick shows how sad I am. As can be seen from the above analysis, the Queen Mother claimed that "bereavement" meant sadness.

The word "bereavement" should be used by Empress Dowager Cixi and later Empress Dowager Cixi when the emperor died, meaning that the widow died and mourned in front of the emperor. It should be a joke for the queen to claim to be homesick, otherwise it would be a curse to the emperor. That's a capital crime. "Mourning" means the death of the late emperor. Only the empress dowager and the imperial concubine can be called "family mourning", and nothing on TV can be taken seriously.

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