Chapter 154 Western Queen

The Queen Mother of the West is referred to as the Queen Mother, also known as the Golden Mother, the Golden Mother Yuanjun, and commonly known as the Queen Mother.Originally a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology, she was later embellished by Taoism as the leader of the female fairies.The name of the Queen Mother of the West first appeared in the "Sutra" written from the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. "Huainanzi Lan Ming Pian" said: "Yi asked the Queen Mother of the West for the medicine of immortality, and E stole it to fly to the moon." "Zhuangzi The Great Master" also writes the Queen Mother of the West as a person who has attained the Tao, saying: "The way of the husband is that there is love and faith, and nothing can be invisible.... The Queen Mother of the West got it and sat in Shaoguang. She didn't know her death or her end."It can be seen that from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty, the Queen Mother of the West was either a fierce god, a lucky god, a human king, or a righteous person, with different images.

During the Han Dynasty, the Queen Mother of the West had been unified as the Personality God.During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Queen Mother of the West was regarded as the leader of the fairies.During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people's depiction of the Queen Mother of the West went a step further. Volume 50 of "Taiping Guangji" quotes "Zianyilu" to record "Songyue married a daughter", the content is not Songyue married a daughter, but actually records the banquet of the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.On the mid-autumn night of Tang Yuan and Guisi, Tian Yan and Deng Shao went out to enjoy the moon, and were led into the fairyland by the immortals Wei Fuqing and Li Babai, where they witnessed the scene where the Queen Mother of the West held a banquet for King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of Han.Seeing that the Queen Mother of the West was sitting at the same table with King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Xuanyuan Huangdi was also invited, but he was unable to attend the meeting because he was presiding over the banquet in the Moon Palace.At the meeting, Liu Gang and Mao Ying served as waiters, Magu played the zither, Xie Ziran played the building, Ding Lingwei sang, and Wang Zijin played the sheng and harmony.The scene is more lively than having a banquet with King Mu of Zhou in Yaochi or having a banquet with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in Chenghua Hall.Here, there is no concept of time and space in the human world, and people who have been around for more than a thousand years all appear at a banquet.The so-called: "There is only one day in the sky, but thousands of years in the world", is exactly the fairyland that the fairy family yearns for.

The Queen Mother of the West also had a great influence in society in the old days.First of all, the Temple of the Queen Mother of the West existed very early among the people.There are also a lot of things about the Queen Mother of the West in the novel, and the story about Monkey King making a big fuss at the Peach Blossom Festival is also based on this.