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Empress Zhangsun MBTI Personality Type

Personality

What personality type is Empress Zhangsun? Empress Zhangsun is an ENFJ personality type in MBTI, 1w2 - - 126 in Enneagram, in Big 5, EII in Socionics.

She is known for her kindness and helpfulness, so she has the compliment”empress with high virtue” (贤后). Zhangsun had most of the best morals that women should have in the feudal society. However, she was different from the stereotype of women under patriarchy. For example, she involved into politics a lot, but not take any power. Her contribution was mainly on helping Taizong on the details. On the other hand, she tried her best to balance the conflict of Taizong’s harem, so she had good relations with the consorts. She had highly self-discipline, and she said if Taizong died before her, she will commit suicide because she did not want to be powerful as Lv Zhi. In these descriptions, we know that Zhangsun had strong Fe function and she should be NFJ, not sure I or E.

Biography

Empress Zhangsun (長孫皇后, personal name unknown, presumably Wugou (無垢) (15 March 601 – 28 July 636[1]), formally Empress Wendeshunsheng (文德順聖皇后, literally "the civil, virtuous, serene, and holy empress") or, in short, Empress Wende (文德皇后), was a Chinese essayist and an empress of the Chinese Tang dynasty. She was the wife of Emperor Taizong and the mother of Emperor Gaozong. She was well educated, and her ancestors were of Xianbei ethnicity. Their original surname was Tuoba, later changed to Zhangsun. During her tenure as empress, she served as a loyal assistant and honest advice to her husband, Emperor Taizong.

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