In China mythology, the Queen Mother is the immortal goddess in charge of punishing evil and warning disasters. Some scholars believe that the Queen Mother of the West is the ancestor goddess deified by the ancients. In Taoist mythology, the Queen Mother of the West is the head of a female fairy and the goddess who dominates and cultivates immortals, corresponding to the head of a male fairy. Is the goddess of creation, the founder of Quanzhen religion.
In the later period, the Queen Mother of the West was regarded as the goddess of marriage, childbirth and protection of women, and appeared in a large number of folklore, novels and operas. Many ancient books and legends have records about the Queen Mother of the West. Comparing Gui Zang of Shang Dynasty with Zhouyi of Western Zhou Dynasty, we can know that the Queen Mother has the elixir of life. In the annals of bamboo books, the image of the Queen Mother of the West is an elegant female emperor.
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Legends related to Journey to the West:
The queen mother's Xiantao is even more powerful: after three thousand years of cooking, people become immortals and become Tao; Boiled for 6 thousand years at a time, people will live forever after eating it; After nine thousand years of cooking, people eat the same life as heaven and earth, and the same life as the sun and the moon.
The Queen Mother held a grand flat peach party and invited fairies from all walks of life to attend. The Monkey King, the Great Sage of the Monkey, only heard the old story of the last Peach Blossom Fair from the immortal, and the Monkey King was not in the old list. In a rage, he made a big fuss about the flat peach party and screwed up the activities carefully planned by the queen mother. Then, the Emperor Jade Emperor was surprised and angry, and sent the heavenly soldiers down to earth to fight with the Monkey King.