The Queen Mother is one of the great gods of heaven who took charge of the Flat Peach Garden in the Journey to the West and was on an equal footing with the Jade Emperor.
In Taoism, the Queen Mother of the West is called the Golden Mother of Jiuling Taimiao Guishan. According to Jianghu rules, the longer the nickname, the greater the skill of this person or fairy. For example, the Jade Emperor is called "Heaven, Heaven, Golden Que, Supreme Nature, Mira and True Jade Emperor God", so the corresponding Queen Mother must have a very powerful and long name. It's just that the name was given to her by the official in Taoist classics, so the people generally refer to it as the Queen Mother.
but this heavenly queen will not pop out of thin air. According to Taoism, the Queen Mother is a combination of western yin and qi, so it is called the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West is the leader of the fairy in the world and lives on the Kunlun Mountain. The legendary Yaochi naturally moved to Kunlun Mountain.
Taoism is based on the five elements of Yin and Yang, with women dominating Yin and men dominating Yang. Therefore, since the Queen Mother of the West is the first among the female immortals, there must be the first among the male immortals. It's just that the head of this male fairy is not the Jade Emperor that we are looking for, but Dong Wanggong. Because from the azimuth, west to east, from the gender, princes to queens, from the two instruments, Yin to Yang, the emergence of this Dong Wanggong, there is no problem. And Dong Wanggong and the Queen Mother of the West don't live together, and Dong Wanggong lives in Penglai Fairy Island in the east.
But the Queen Mother of the West and Dong Wanggong appeared in pairs, which was after the prevalence of Taoism in the Han Dynasty, but the prototype of the Queen Mother of the West was much earlier than this. At present, the image of the Queen Mother of the West is well documented. It first appeared in Shan Hai Jing, but there is a big gap between the image of the Queen Mother of China and the West in Shan Hai Jing and the image of later generations. Here, the Queen Mother of the West is leopard-tailed, tiger-toothed, good at whistling and full of Dai Sheng, which is completely incompatible with the kind old lady in our concept! Therefore, some people suspect that the Queen Mother of the West may be the image of a god played by a wizard wearing a mask and animal clothes during ancient sacrifices.
so who is this god? Looking through ancient books, who else is the goddess worthy of constant sacrifice by future generations except Nu Wa?
So, the final answer was revealed: Nu Wa was sacrificed in the later generations, and her image gradually evolved into the Queen Mother of the West, which was recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and then evolved again, and was absorbed by Taoism, becoming the head of the fairy who was in charge of the celestial world. Later, ghost novels prevailed, and the image of the Queen Mother was borrowed, and a flat peach was planted and a flat peach banquet was held, which became the nominal harem of the Jade Emperor, and also became a well-known queen mother among the people.