Pei Tan (8th-century Tang chancellor)
Pei Tan( 裴談) was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, briefly serving as chancellor.
Despite
Pei's high status, little is firmly established about his career except for the time that he served as chancellor—as, unusual for a chancellor, he did not have a biography in either the" Old Book of Tang" or the" New Book of Tang".
It is known that his clan traced its ancestry to the Cao Wei official Pei Hui( 裴徽).
Some of Pei Tan's ancestors served as officials for Jin Dynasty( 265- 420), Former Qin, and Northern Wei, but Pei's several immediate ancestors did not carry any official titles.
As of 710, Pei was serving as minister of justice( 刑部尚書) under Emperor Zhongzong, when Emperor Zhongzong died suddenly — a death that traditional historians believed to be a poisoning by Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei and daughter Li Guo'er the Princess Anle.
Empress Wei did not initially announce Emperor Zhongzong's death and quickly made a number of personnel moves in the government and the military.
As a part of these moves, Pei was given the designation" Tong Zhongshu Menxia Sanpin"( 同中書門下三品), making him a chancellor" de facto".
Soon, she had Emperor Zhongzong's son by a concubine, Li Chongmao the Prince of Wen, named emperor( as Emperor Shang), but retained power as empress dowager and regent.
Less than a month later, Emperor Zhongzong's sister Princess Taiping and nephew Li Longji the Prince of Linzi, rose in rebellion and killed Empress Dowager Wei and Li Guo'er.
LI Longji's father Li Dan the Prince of Xiang became emperor( as Emperor Ruizong), displacing Emperor Shang.
Soon, as part of the major governmental reorganization, Pei was demoted to be the prefect of Pu Prefecture( 蒲州, roughly modern Yuncheng, Shanxi).
That was the last historical record about Pei, and it is not known when he died, although it is known that his son Pei Yuanming( 裴元明) later served as a prefectural prefect as well.
( There was a reference to Pei Tan in 714, when Pei Tan was listed among a list of secret police officials during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong's mother Wu Zetian in an edict by Li Longji( then reigning as Emperor Xuanzong), indicating that the former secret police officials should be removed from their posts and officially denounced, but it is not completely certain that this was the same Pei Tan.)
Huan Yanfan
Huan Yanfan( 桓彥範)( 653–706), courtesy name Shize( 士則), formally Prince Zhonglie of Fuyang( 扶陽忠烈王), briefly known during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as Wei Yanfan( 韋彥範), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong.
He was a key figure in the coup that overthrew Wu Zetian and restored Emperor Zhongzong in 705, but was later exiled due to false accusations instigated by Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Sansi and killed in exile in a cruel manner.
Princess Jincheng
Princess Jincheng( c. 698 – 739), surnamed Li, was a member of a minor branch of the royal clan of the Chinese Tang dynasty.
Princess Jincheng was a daughter of Li Shouli, a prince of Tang China.
She grew up in the court and was regarded by Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as a foster daughter.
Emperor Zhongzong received an ambassador sent by Empress Dowager Khri ma lod of the Tibetan Empire requesting a marriage alliance between the future emperor, Tridé Tsuktsen, and a Tang princess.
Emperor Zhongzong conferred the title of Princess Jincheng upon his foster daughter and, in 710, a minister of Tibet arrived to collect her.
On his arrival, Emperor Zhongzong entertained the minister by having his sons- in- law play ball sports with him.
Princess Jincheng was then married to Emperor Tridé Tsuktsen of Tibet, in accordance with the" heqin" policy.
Princess Jincheng was expected to act as an ambassador to the Tibetan Empire and assist as a Tang diplomat to the Tibetan court.
In one case, she solved a dispute between the Tibetan and Tang envoys by erecting a plaque to mark the two territories.
In 723, unhappy with her marriage, Princess Jincheng ask for asylum with the King of Kashmir, but she was persuaded to remain in Tibet.
The Emperor Zhongzong, saddened by the loss of his daughter, requested that poems be written in her honor.
The poet Wang Zhihuan answered with" Beyond the Border", a reference to her trip through Yumen Pass.
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (26 November 656 – 3 July 710), personal name Li Xian, and at other times Li Zhe or Wu Xian, was the fourth Emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 684 and again from 705 to 710.
During the first period, he did not rule, and the entire government was in the hands of his mother, Empress Wu Zetian.
In the second period, most of the government was in the hands of his beloved wife Empress Wei).
Emperor Zhongzong was the son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Empress Wu (later known as Wu Zetian).
He succeeded his father in 684.
His mother, however, deposed him less than two months later in favor of his younger brother Emperor Ruizong.
The former emperor, demoted to a princely rank, was sent in exile in the provinces and placed under house arrest.
Six years later, Emperor Ruizong in turn relinquished the throne to his mother and Empress Dowager Wu officially proclaimed herself empress regnant, while Emperor Ruizong was made crown prince.
By 698 the court was caught in the middle of a bitter power struggle.
In an attempt to secure her prominence, Empress Wu liberated the former emperor from his 14 years of seclusion and recalled him to the capital in April 698.
He was reinstated as crown prince in October 698, taking the place of his brother.
On 20 February 705, a palace coup deposed Wu Zetian and Emperor Zhongzong was restored as emperor three days later.
Emperor Zhongzong reigned for five years but was a rather weak and easily influenced ruler.
Real power was in the hands of his empress consort, Empress Wei and her lover Wu Sansi
(Wu Zetian's nephew).
In 710, Emperor Zhongzong died, allegedly poisoned by Empress Wei, who then installed his son, Li Chongmao, as Emperor Shang.
Empress Wei, who had failed to install her daughter Li Guo'er, the Princess Anle, as heir to Emperor Zhongzong, thought that Li Chongmao, born of Zhongzong and a concubine and who was only 16 years old, would be easy to control and allow her to preserve her power.
The scheme failed, however, when Princess Taiping, the sister of Emperor Zhongzong, launched a coup two weeks later with her nephew Li Longji (later Emperor Xuanzong), son of the abdicated Emperor Ruizong, and overthrew Empress Wei and the young emperor.
Emperor Ruizong, the father of Li Longji and the older brother of Princess Taiping, was restored as emperor.
Wei Juyuan
Wei Juyuan( 韋巨源)( 631 – July 22, 710), formally Duke Zhao of Shu( 舒昭公), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving multiple times as chancellor during the reigns of Wu Zetian, her son Emperor Zhongzong, and her grandson Emperor Shang.
During Emperor Zhongzong's reign, he became aligned with Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei, and after Emperor Zhongzong's death in 710 and a coup led by Emperor Zhongzong's sister Princess Taiping and Emperor Zhongzong's nephew Li Longji the Prince of Linzi killed Empress Wei, Wei Juyuan was also killed.
Wei Wen
Wei Wen( 韋溫)( died July 24, 710) was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Zhongzong's son Emperor Shang.
He was trusted by Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei, who was his cousin, and after she was killed in a coup after Emperor Zhongzong's death, he was also killed.
Ji Chuna
Ji Chuna( died July 24, 710) was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong and Emperor Zhongzong's son Emperor Shang.
He was a member of the faction of Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei, and was killed after she was killed in a coup in 710.
Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)
Empress Wei( 韋皇后, personal name unknown)( died July 21, 710) was an empress of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
She was the second wife of Emperor Zhongzong, who reigned twice, and during his second reign, she tried to emulate the example of her mother- in- law Wu Zetian and seize power.
After Emperor Zhongzong's death in 710 — a death traditionally believed to be a poisoning she carried out together with her daughter Li Guo'er the Princess Anle—which gave her the power to become the empress dowager and regent, but in short order was overthrown and killed in a coup led by Emperor Zhongzong's nephew Li Longji( the later Emperor Xuanzong) and Emperor Zhongzong's sister Princess Taiping.
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), alternatively named Wu Zhao, Wu Hou (Empress Wu), during the later Tang dynasty as Tian Hou, in English as Empress Consort Wu, was a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially name of the emperor and as empress consort, power behind the throne, and later officially as regent, empress dowager, empress regnant  during the brief Zhou dynasty (690–705), which interrupted the Tang dynasty.
Wu was the sole officially recognized empress regnant of China in more than two millennia.
Wu was the concubine of Emperor Taizong.
After his death, she married his successor—his ninth son, Emperor Gaozong, officially becoming Gaozong's "huanghou" (empress consort, title for the reigning emperor's main consort) in 655, although having considerable political power prior to this.
After Gaozong's debilitating stroke in 660, Wu Zetian became administrator of the court, a position equal to the emperor's until 705.
The importance to history of Wu Zetian's period of political and military leadership includes the major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it far beyond its previous territorial limits, deep into Central Asia, and engaging in a series of wars on the Korean Peninsula, first allying with Silla against Goguryeo, and then against Silla over the occupation of former Goguryeo territory.
Within China, besides the more direct consequences of her struggle to gain and maintain supreme power, Wu's leadership resulted in important effects regarding social class in Chinese society and in relation to state support for Taoism, Buddhism, education, and literature.
Wu Zetian also had a monumental impact upon the statuary of the Longmen Grottoes and the "Wordless Stele" at the Qianling Mausoleum, as well as the construction of some major buildings and bronze castings that no longer survive.
Besides her career as a political leader, Wu Zetian also had an active family life.
Although family relationships sometimes became problematic, Wu Zetian was the mother of four sons, three of whom also carried the title of emperor, although one held that title only as a posthumous honor.
One of her grandsons became the renowned Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.
Zhu Qinming
Zhu Qinming( 祝欽明), courtesy name Wensi( 文思), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty and Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, serving as a chancellor under Emperor Zhongzong.
He was a renowned Confucian scholar, but was later disgraced after Emperor Zhongzong's death for having flattered Emperor Zhongzong's powerful wife Empress Wei.

Question: When was Emperor Zhongzong Of Tang's mother born?
Answer: 17 February 624