People have the impression that the Queen Mother should be an elegant middle-aged lady. However, the Queen Mother recorded in the earliest ancient books is not the case. According to Shan Hai Jing, the Queen Mother lived on Kunlun Mountain. What does it look like? Leopard-tailed tiger teeth, good at whistling, full of Dai Sheng, all white? .
People say she is? What are the steps in Dai Sheng? ,? There are three bluebirds feeding on the queen mother? .
In other words, the Queen Mother of the West has a tail like a leopard and teeth like a tiger, and will growl with a high-frequency voice. With messy hair and a strange thing on your head? Won. All white, leaning on the coffee table, there are three names called everyday? Jade bird? The giant raptor brought her food.
The Jade Emperor will be surprised to see him at night. But the emperors on earth worshipped her very much. According to legend, when Zhou Muwang made the Western Expedition to ethnic minorities, he passed through Kunlun Mountain and took out Bai Gui Xu Anbi and other jade articles to visit the Queen Mother of the West. At this time, the Queen Mother of the West has become gentle and elegant. At the Yaochi banquet, both of them sang some poems to bless each other. Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also went to see her once. It is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also ate a kind of flat peach, which only bears fruit once in 3000 years.
Some scholars believe that the Queen Mother of the West is actually the female chief of the nomadic tribe west of Qinghai Lake, and the reason why she is described so horribly in ancient books is actually used by this female chief when she leads her subordinates to exercise power or hold sacrificial ceremonies. Leopard-tailed tiger tooth? Or other animal fur horns as decoration.
However, some scholars have put forward a unique view: the Queen Mother of the West is the goddess of textile, and her strange appearance actually refers to the loom.
He first researched the monster on the head of the Queen Mother of the West? Win? . ? Win? What is this? Is it a hat? Some people think? Win? It was actually the warp beam of a loom at first, and later it evolved into a female hair accessory. Queen Mother of the West? Peng Fa Dai Sheng? In fact, it describes that the hair-like yarn on the loom is rolled up by the warp beam.
Queen mother's? How about whistling? Refers to the squeaking and twisting sounds made by wooden looms when they work. ? Leopard tail? Describe warp yarns or bunches of silk. Before weaving, workers should prepare warp yarns or bundles of silk and put them on the loom in bundles, which looks like the tails of wild animals. Tiger tooth may refer to the shuttle on the loom, which has two sharp points and is also like the teeth of a wild animal. ? How many steps? In fact, it refers to the primitive ladder loom, which is still in use in Miao areas of Yunnan. The queen of the west? All white? Everything is white, obviously referring to the pure white of silk thread.
As for the three bluebirds that feed on the Queen Mother of the West, they literally provide food for the Queen Mother of the West, but in fact they are likely to provide raw materials for the textile machine. In ancient times, people used spindles to spin fibers into threads. When the spinning wheel works, the spindle rotates like a fly. Maybe the ancients compared it to a bluebird.
The Queen Mother of the West lives in Kunlun Mountain, which means that she is the textile goddess of the local ancient Qiang people. Compared with tropical and subtropical regions, the climate in this region is cold, and people have more motivation to develop garment manufacturing technology. According to some records in ancient books, the ancient Qiang people did make great progress in some textile technologies. This is the background for Zhou Muwang and Liang Wudi to visit the Queen Mother of the West? Learn textile technology. Of course, they are not visiting the same person, but they should all be female leaders of the tribe!
Later, the legend of the Queen Mother of the West was introduced into the Central Plains with textile technology and became a part of the myths and legends of the Central Plains. People have gradually forgotten the original identity of the Queen Mother of the West, but the Queen Mother of the West still runs the textile industry in the Central Plains, and the famous Weaver Girl is her hand. If that's the case, it's not hard to understand why the Queen Mother of the West wants to break up the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Who will work for her?
It is not uncommon for ancient people to deify and worship important tools in production and life, and the Queen Mother of the West is probably one of them.