Why Empress Lu married her own son

Dowager Empress Lu was as follows:

The Empress Dowager Lu Piang decided to marry her granddaughter Zhang Yan to her son, Emperor Hui-Di of Han, in order to add to her kinship. Lu Piang's idea of adding to her kinship was also common sense; after all, all the empress dowagers wanted their kin to continue to have a close relationship with the royal family and to be able to be rich and powerful from generation to generation. However, most of the dowager empresses in history married their nieces to their sons, and it can be said to be very rare for them to marry their granddaughters directly to their sons like this.

Characteristics

When people talk about Lu Pheasant, the images related to harem dictatorship and the subjective impression of Lu Pheasant's ruthlessness and inhumanity will automatically come to their mind.

We can't say that this traditional impression of Lu Pheasant is wrong, but to really understand the root of a person, we must first look through the phenomenon of his behavior to understand the logic of his mind and the vein of his behavior, which means that we must put ourselves in his shoes and walk into his world of existence.

If we can truly look at the person of Lu Qian from the heart, then through all the traces she has left in history, it is not difficult to realize that it is not unreasonable for Sima Qian to classify her biography as a book in the middle of the century.

This woman was very difficult and uncomplicated. It could even be argued that if it were not for the fact that she was only a feudal woman, she was better suited and better at being an emperor than most men.