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Ep. 7 | Wu Zetian

The China History Podcast

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The Story of Woma Nang

Wo ma nang was sent to a nunnery to live out the rest of her days as a buddhist non so she heads off to ganie temple, resigned to her fate. After serving some time as a nun, emperor galzung arranges for woma nang to go back to the palace. She now had a powerful benefactor who made her a ja, the highest rank concubine of the second level. Now this is where the history gets kind of merky or merkier. The documents handed down over the past thousand years have all kinds of opposing stories about what happened. And nothing can be accepted as true, or even probably true.

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