Editing Wu Zetian (section)

=== Poetry ===
Wu's court was a focus of literary creativity. Forty-six of Wu's poems are collected in the ''[[Complete Tang Poems]]'' and 61 essays under her name are recorded in the ''Quan Tangwen'' (''Collected Tang Essays'').<ref>{{Cite book |title = Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism
 |author=[[Kang-i Sun Chang]] |author2=[[Haun Saussy]] |author3=Charles Yim-tze Kwong
 |year = 1999
 |publisher = Stanford University Press
 |page = 31
}}</ref> Many of those writings serve political ends, but there is one poem in which she laments her mother after she died and expresses her despair at not being able to see her again.

During Wu's reign, the imperial court produced various works of which she was a sponsor, such as the anthology of her court's poetry known as the ''[[Zhuying ji]]'' (''Collection of Precious Glories''), which contained poems by [[Cui Rong]], [[Li Jiao (Tang dynasty)|Li Jiao]], [[Zhang Yue (Tang dynasty)|Zhang Yue]], and others, arranged according to the poets' rank at court.<ref>{{harvp|Yu|2002|p= 56}}</ref> Among the literary developments that took place during Wu's time (and partly at her court) was the final stylistic development of the "new style" poetry of the [[Regulated verse|regulated verse (''jintishi'')]], by the poetic pair [[Song Zhiwen]] and [[Shen Quanqi]].

Wu also patronized scholars by founding an institute to produce the ''Collection of Biographies of Famous Women''.<ref name="Paludan, 99" /> The development of what is considered characteristic [[Tang poetry]] is traditionally ascribed to [[Chen Zi'ang]],<ref>{{harvp|Watson|1971|p= 115}}</ref> one of Wu's ministers.