1. Journey to Mount Song with Gaozong

    · Mount Song, Dengfeng, Henan, China

    Journey to Mount Song with Gaozong
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    In the eleventh month of 683, Wu traveled with Emperor Gaozong to Mount Song shortly before his death; the account places the imperial pair at the mountain when Gaozong became ill. The source gives the event in the eleventh lunar month; no Gregorian day is asserted.

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