"Jade Emperor and Queen Mother
Jade Emperor:
The Jade Emperor was the son of King Yan Jingle of Haotian Realm and Empress Baoyue Guang. When he was born, his body was covered in flames and filled the kingdom. He was intelligent when he was young and kind when he was old. He gave all the treasures in the treasury of the kingdom to the poor, the widowers, the widows, the lonely, the helpless, the hungry and the disabled. After the death of King Jingle, the prince managed the government well. He told the ministers to accept all living beings, so he left the country and went to Mount Xiangyan in Puming to cultivate Taoism. After 3,200 kalpas, he became a Golden Immortal. At first, he was called the Natural Jue Emperor. After hundreds of millions of kalpas, he became the Jade Emperor.
The Jade Emperor was the Emperor of the Heavens, the King of True Immortals, the Lord of the Sacred Venerables, the highest god of the Three Realms and the Three Cave Immortal Truths. The Jade Emperor had the power to command the nine heavens and summon the gods of the four seas and five mountains. All the gods stood by his side like emperors and ministers in the mortal world. Bai Juyi had a poem saying,"An Qi envies the door generation, and the attendants are like Gongqing." I worship the Jade Emperor and bow my head to show my sincerity."
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Western Matriarch:
The origin of the Queen Mother of the West was the Queen Mother of the West, commonly known as the Queen Mother, also known as the Old Lady of the West, the Queen Mother, the Golden Mother, and the Golden Mother. Her full name was White Jade Tortoise Platform Nine Spirit Supreme Gold Mother, White Jade Tortoise Platform Nine Phoenix Supreme Queen Mother of the West, or Supreme Spirit Nine Light Tortoise Platform Golden Mother. The name of the Queen Mother of the West first appeared in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. "West" referred to the direction, and "Queen Mother" was the name of the god. The Queen Mother of the West was formed by the most wonderful qi of Xihua in the chaotic Taoist qi. Her surname was Hou, and her position was equal to that of the West. According to the Internal Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when the Queen Mother of the West came to the palace, she was wearing a golden girdle, bright and beautiful, with a large ribbon flying in the spirit, a sword of split-scenery on her waist, a Taihua bun on her head, a crown of Taizhen Chenying, and a pair of black shoes with phoenix patterns on them. He looked like he was in his thirties. He was short and middle-aged. His natural beauty covered his face and his appearance was peerless. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty worshipped the teachings of the Queen Mother of the West. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is said that the Queen Mother of the West has a human body with tiger teeth, a leopard tail and a shaggy head. She is the god of the white tiger in the west sent by the Queen Mother of the West, not the shape of the Queen Mother of the West.
The Queen Mother of the West is the clan of female immortals. She lives between Kunlun Mountains. She has a city of thousands of miles, twelve jade towers, Qionghua Palace, Guangbi Hall, nine-story Yuan Room, Purple Jade Dan Room, Jade Pool on the left and Green Mountain on the right. According to the History of Natural History, there were peach trees in Yaochi, which bore fruit after three thousand years. In the heavens, the earth, the three worlds, and the ten directions, women who achieved immortality were all under the jurisdiction of the Queen Mother of the West.
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Three Blue Birds:
It was a divine bird from ancient Chinese mythology. Legend has it that they were the emissaries of the goddess, Queen Mother of the West. There were three of them. Also known as the Three Birds. It was originally a powerful bird of prey, but later it became a delicate bird. Han Dynasty brick portraits were commonly seen beside the Queen Mother of the West. The Song of Chu. The Nine Sighs: "Three birds fly from the south, looking at their aspirations and want to go north." I hope you can tell the three birds to get rid of the wind and fly away.”Hong Xingzu added,"Natural History: 'When the Queen Mother came to see Emperor Wu, there were three blue birds as big as crows on both sides of the Queen Mother.'Three birds, is the Queen Mother's messenger, out of the "Shan Hai Jing."”The Classic of Mountains and Seas. In the Northern Classics of the Sea, the Queen Mother of the West climbed a few steps and wore a crown. There are three blue birds in the south of the mountain, which are fed by the Queen Mother of the West.”There are also three bluebirds in the Western Classic of the Great Wilderness: "There are three bluebirds with red heads and black eyes. One is called the big bird, one is called the small bird, and the other is called the bluebird.”Tao Qian of the Jin Dynasty,"Reading the Classics of Mountains and Seas" poem five: "Three blue birds, their fur is very pitiful.”Also, in poetry, it was often used to refer to the messenger of love. Tang Li Bai's "A Journey to Reunion":"I am willing to repay my long-cherished love with three bluebirds."”
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P.S. The Queen Mother of the West is indeed a person in history.
Some scholars and experts in our country believe that the Queen Mother of the West, who was given a strong mythological color, did exist in history.
In many ancient books and myths in our country, the story of the Queen Mother of the West was endless. There were records of the Queen Mother of the West from the Classic of Mountains and Seas to the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The Queen Mother of the West was also known as the " Queen Mother " among the people. She was a goddess with supreme power and elegance.
Li Xiaowei, a scholar who studied Kunlun culture, said,""In fact, the Queen Mother of the West, who is shrouded in countless mythological halos, is not a celestial being, but a female chief of the nomadic tribes west of Qinghai Lake.”
After many years of research and field visits, some scholars and experts discovered that there was a grazing country more than 3,000 to 5,000 years ago-the Western Kingdom. Its territory included the vast area sandwiched between the Kunlun and Qilian mountain ranges of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The grasslands around Qinghai Lake and the Chaidamu Basin were its wealthiest central areas. According to research, the "capital" of the ancient country of the Queen Mother of the West was located in Tianjun County, Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, on the west bank of Qinghai Lake.
Professor Zhang Zhongxiao from the Department of Geography of Qinghai Normal University said in his signed article: "It is worth mentioning that the Queen Mother of the West is both a title of an ancient tribal country and the honorific title of the Queen of an ancient country.”
The ancient country had long disappeared in the dust of history, but it still left traces of its existence for future generations. Twenty kilometers southwest of Tianjun County, there was a cave that was more than ten meters deep on the west side of an independent hill. According to the research of scholars, this was the residence of the female leader of the Ancient Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West more than 5000 years ago. It had been named the Queen Mother of the West Stone Room. There were various rock paintings, scriptures, and paintings written by monks and Taoists in the past. Opposite the stone room was the Western Mother Temple, which had collapsed to the ground. Cultural relics archaeologists excavated precious cultural relics such as Han tile with inscriptions of "Changle Weiyang" and "Changle Trillion", which indicated that the ruins of the Western Queen Mother Temple belonged to the Han Dynasty, which proved that people in the Han Dynasty had already recognized that this stone chamber had an inseparable connection with the Western Queen Mother.
Li Xiaowei believed that the era of the Queen Mother of the West was a matriarchal society, and it was also an era of totem worship. A five-woman hand-holding dance colored pottery basin of the Majiayao culture type was unearthed in Shangsunjiazhai Village, Datong County, Qinghai Province. The image of the woman was tiger teeth and leopard tail, which was the symbol of the totem of the Queen Mother of the West. According to carbon-14 measurements, it was 5000 years ago, which coincided with the era of the Queen Mother of the West.
The existing ancient books proved that from the Jin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even the Republic of China, there were a large number of Queen tribes in the grassland area of Qinghai and the north and south of Kunlun Mountain. The Supi tribe was the most famous one.
Taoism called the supreme ruler of heaven the Jade Emperor. He was like the emperor of the human world. He was in charge of thirty-six heavens and seventy-two lands. He was in charge of all gods, Buddhas, immortals, saints, and the affairs of the human world and the underworld. It was also known as Heaven Duke, Heaven Duke Ancestor, Jade Emperor, Jade Emperor, Jade Emperor God.
According to the Jade Emperor's Collection, the prince of the Kingdom of Light and Miaole gave up his throne and learned to cultivate in Mount Xiangyan of the Jin Dynasty. He assisted the country and saved the people, converted all living beings, and finally became the Jade Emperor after hundreds of millions of disasters.
It was said that the Jade Emperor was the Taoist's "Heavenly Lord Yuanshi". The highest god worshiped by Taoism.)
The Queen Mother of the West, also known as the Queen Mother, was a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology. Recently, some scholars in our country believe that the Queen Mother did exist in history. According to the field investigation, 3000 to 5000 years ago, there was a country of animal husbandry, the Western Kingdom. Its territory included the vast area sandwiched between the Kunlun and Qilian mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau today. The grasslands around Qinghai Lake and the Chaidamu Basin were its wealthiest central areas. The "capital" of the Ancient Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West was in the area of Tianjun County in Qinghai.
The Queen Mother was originally a tribal female leader
He once met with King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The myth of the "Peach Banquet" is the most widely spread.
According to Cheng Shirong, the head of the Gansu Province Federation of Literature and Art, the myth of the Queen Mother of the West was an important part of the ancient mythical legend system of the Chinese Dynasty. There were many records about the Queen Mother. The late Tang poet Li Shangyin once wrote in a poem when he visited Jingchuan: " The mother of the Jade Pool leaned against the window and opened it. The yellow bamboo sang sadly. The eight horses traveled 30,000 miles in a day. Why did King Mu not come again?"”The meeting between the Queen Mother of the West and King Mu of Zhou, according to the research of experts, was a reflection of the harmonious relationship between the western ethnic groups and the eastern Central Plains ethnic groups. There was also a description of the Queen Mother of the West in the story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "She was short and beautiful, and her beauty was peerless." She gave the immortal peach that only bore once every three thousand years to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, showing her deep infatuation with love.
Logically speaking, the mythical Queen Mother should not have any sexual desire between men and women. However, people both deified her and secularized her, linking her with the Jade Emperor. They even gave birth to seven daughters named "Seven Fairy Maidens". The youngest daughter of them secretly descended to the mortal world and married a poor farmer, Dong Yong. Chang'e Flies to the Moon was also one of the most popular stories about the Queen Mother. In the seventh chapter of Journey to the West, it was described that the Queen Mother held a "Peach Banquet" at the Jade Lake, which had a great influence on the people of the Heavenly Dynasty.
Jingchuan Huishan Queen Mother Palace is a special and complete holy land about the Queen Mother of the West.
Liu Yingqi, the deputy head of the Jingchuan County Political Conference, who had been committed to the study of the Western Queen Mother's culture, believed that the era of the Western Queen Mother's ancient tribe, from the earliest myths and legends, was roughly in the era of the Five Emperors. However, because the Five Emperors Era was a legendary era, the boundaries of the tribes were unknown and there was no evidence to support it.
According to the records of the Hai Nei Xi Jing, Mount Kunlun was the residence of the Queen Mother of the West. The Kunlun Mountains were located in present-day Xinjiang, Tibet, and Qinghai. However, the people of the Central Plains knew that there was Kunlun. It was actually a geographical concept of the west after the Warring States Period. It was said that the Queen Mother of the West lived in Kunlun. It was not necessary to talk about it. Just one reason could make it clear that it was the place referred to by later generations. Was it because the Queen Mother of the West was a widely revered ancestor of the Han people? Now the foot of Kunlun Mountain was a minority area? There was no special admiration for the Queen Mother of the West among the minority ethnic groups. This showed that the Queen Mother of the West was not the ancestor of the local ethnic minorities. It also showed that the ancient Queen Mother of the West tribe had long integrated into the Central Plains and did not exist alone today. Otherwise, the legend of the Queen Mother of the West would not exist in the Han culture, but in the culture of the ethnic minorities at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.
The Queen Mother of the West existed in Kunlun after the expansion of the western region of the Celestial Dynasty. As the deity of the western part of the Celestial Dynasty, according to her position in the west, she should have her temple on Mount Kunlun, the highest mountain in the western part of the Celestial Dynasty. This was similar to the fact that the Queen Mother of the West also had a temple on Mount Tai in the eastern part of the Celestial Dynasty. It was the result of the spread of the Queen Mother of the West's culture. According to the western boundary of the Celestial Dynasty determined in the previous article and the ownership of the ancient tribe of the Queen Mother of the West in the previous article, the ancient tribe of the Queen Mother of the West could only live in the upper reaches of the Jing, Wei, and Luo rivers. Their ancestral temple should also be in this area.
According to the information on the remains of the Queen Mother Palace in Jingchuan, it was not as simple as a temple or a pool in other places. It was a special and complete holy land for the Queen Mother of the West.
Jingchuan Huishan Queen Mother Palace was closely related to the Queen Mother of the West in terms of its geographical location in the ancient west, relics, records of various ancient books, and local folk beliefs. It was believed to be the ancestral temple where the ancient Queen Mother of the West lived. After the Warring States Period, the vast area around Jingchuan Huishan had become the interior of the Heavenly Dynasty, and it was said to be the western outer region. It was no longer in line with the history of that time, and it had lost the infinite mystery of the gods. In addition, the ancient tribe of the Queen Mother of the West had long since ceased to exist. Therefore, after the Warring States Period, the literati recorded the myths and legends about the Queen Mother of the West in Kunlun Mountain. It was the result of the Western Queen Mother's culture moving westward.
There was a cave that was more than ten meters deep in the southwest of Tianjun County. It was the residence of the female leader of the Ancient Kingdom of the Western Mother more than 5000 years ago.
If the Queen Mother of the West, Jade Lake, Jade Mountain, and other problems were examined in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there would be new discoveries. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the western border of the Zhou Dynasty did not cross Longshan (now Liupan Mountain and Guanshan). A record in Zuo Zhuan, the ninth year of Zhao Gong, explained the problem very clearly: "After the Xia Dynasty, Ji, Wei, Yu, Rui, Qi and Bi were the western lands of our country.”"Records of the Historian·Zhou Benji" records: "Next year, attack Mixu.”Also "a total of king travel in Jingshang, Mi Kang Gong from." "One year, King Gong destroyed the secret." Mixu was a small state established by the Rong people in Lingtai County, which was later conquered by the Zhou people. These examples showed that the western border of the Western Zhou Dynasty was on the line between Fufeng and Lingtai. The Western Expedition of King Mu of Zhou would not be too far away from here.
"Ancient and Modern Book Collection" Pingliang Prefecture historical site research records: "Back to Zhongshan, three miles west of the state, the vein from Kunlun, there is the Queen Mother Palace, below the Jingshui, a palace mountain. King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty came here."
In the ancient history of China? Back to Zhongshan, famous all over the world? It was closely related to the Huizhong Ancient Road and was a famous mountain on the Silk Road of the Han and Tang Dynasties. According to the Records of the Historian·Xiongnu Biography, Huizhong Palace was the temporary palace of the Qin and Han emperors. In the Han Dynasty, Huizhong Palace was located in Zhongshan, Jingchuan County.
As the Huizhong Palace was located on the Huizhong Road, the feudal rulers of the Qin and Han Dynasties paid close attention to it. I've been here many times. From this point of view, the story of the Queen Mother of the West dating King Mu of Zhou and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not purely fictional, but inferred and deduced on the basis of certain historical facts.
It is very difficult to find any records about the Queen Mother of the West and Hui Zhongshan. It is certain that in the Tang Dynasty, people believed that Hui Zhongshan in Jingchuan County was the old place of the Queen Mother of the West. In the late Tang Dynasty, there was already a hall dedicated to worshipping the Queen Mother of the West in Jingchuan and Zhongshan, and it also had the name "Queen Mother Palace".
Although the ancient country had disappeared in the dust of history, it still left traces of its existence for future generations. Twenty kilometers southwest of Tianjun County, there was a cave that was more than ten meters deep on the west side of an independent hill. According to the research of scholars, this was the residence of the female leader of the Ancient Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West more than 5000 years ago. It had been named the Queen Mother of the West Stone Room. There were various rock paintings, scriptures, and paintings written by monks and Taoists in the past. Opposite the stone room was the Western Mother Temple, which had collapsed to the ground. Cultural relics archaeologists excavated precious cultural relics such as Han tile with inscriptions of "Changle Weiyang" and "Changle Trillion", which indicated that the ruins of the Western Queen Mother Temple belonged to the Han Dynasty, which proved that people in the Han Dynasty had already recognized that this stone chamber had an inseparable connection with the Western Queen Mother.
Information Link: The Evolution of the Myth of the Queen Mother of the West
The myth of the Queen Mother of the West had evolved twice. The Han Dynasty was the first stage of the evolution of the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West. During this period, the Queen Mother of the West lived in a cave in the western Jade Mountain (also known as Kunlun Mountain). She was a monster with a human face and a beast body. In addition, there was a monster with horns, leopard prints, and a barking voice on the mountain-Jiao. There were also three blue birds with red feathers who liked to eat fish.
The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties was the second stage of the evolution of the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West. At this time, people linked the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West with the historical facts of King Mu of Zhou's western expedition and Emperor Wu of Han's western tour. The image of the Queen Mother of the West was personified and the legends were deified. The story of King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West meeting at the Jade Pool was widely circulated and had a great influence. The image of the Queen Mother of the West in myths and legends was gradually perfected, and it was closely related to history. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, she was a monster that lived in caves and was good at howling. She looked like a human but not a human, and she looked like a beast but not a beast. In the Biography of Emperor Mu, she became a graceful and peaceful woman who could sing ballads and was familiar with the world. In " The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ", she became a goddess who was about 30 years old and had unparalleled beauty. In later literary works, there were many descriptions of the Queen Mother of the West. She was called the " Jade Pool Golden Mother ". She planted peaches of immortality and ripened once every three thousand years. Every time the peaches of immortality matured, the Queen Mother of the West held a birthday banquet and the immortals came to celebrate her birthday. Wu Chengen's Journey to the West had a wonderful description in the fifth chapter.
The highest god of Taoism was the Three Pure Dao Ancestor, who was transformed from vital qi and was the representative of the highest Dao. Below him was the Four Imperial Emperor, who was responsible for handling specific matters. Among the four emperors, there were three men and one woman. The highest one was the Supreme Jade Emperor of Haotian Golden Palace. He was the head of all gods and could be referred to as God. He ruled the three realms of heaven, earth and space. The four directions, the four dimensions, and the upper and lower were collectively called the ten directions. All living beings in the four realms of viparous, egg-laying, wet and metaplasia, as well as the six realms, ruled the good and bad fortune of all living beings and existences. The other three emperors assisted the Jade Emperor. The Four Imperial Emperors had great authority, and they had a clear division of labor. The only female among them was Chengtian, who imitated the Earth Emperor and the Earth God. The Jade Emperor was originally the prince of the King of Guangyan Miaole, who was bestowed by Taishang Daolord of the Three Pure Ones. However, he always cultivated the Great Way of Heaven and Earth with painstaking efforts. He was appreciated by the first deity of the Three Pure Ones, Yuqing Heavenly Lord Yuanshi, and became the incarnation of the highest Dao. Therefore, it was impossible for the Jade Emperor to have a wife since he was so passionate about cultivation. The Queen Mother was the Queen Mother of the West, a subordinate of the Four Imperial Great Emperor. She managed the immortal records together with the Prince of the East and was in charge of the immortal records of the female immortals. However, her status was higher than that of the Prince of the East. The new immortals had to visit the Queen Mother of the West first before they could visit the Prince of the East.
The two had nothing to do with each other. It was just that the film and television works forcefully connected the two. The legend of the Queen Mother was divided into two stages. The first stage was that the legend of the Queen Mother of the West underwent two evolutions. The Han Dynasty was the first stage of the evolution of the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West. During this period, the Queen Mother of the West lived in a stone cave in the western Jade Mountain (opposite to Kunlun Mountain). She was a monster with a human body and long teeth wearing animal skin. In addition, there was a monster with cow horns, leopard prints, and a barking sound on the mountain-Jiao. There were also three green birds with red feathers who liked to eat fish. The second stage was the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which was the second stage of the evolution of the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West. At this time, people linked the myths and legends of the Queen Mother of the West with the historical facts of King Mu of Zhou's western expedition and Emperor Wu of Han's western tour. The image of the Queen Mother of the West was personified and the legends were deified. The story of King Mu of Zhou and the Queen Mother of the West meeting at the Jade Pool was widely circulated and had a great influence. The image of the Queen Mother of the West in myths and legends was gradually perfected, and it was closely related to history. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, she was a deity who lived in a cave and was good at howling. She looked like a human but not a human, and like a beast but not a beast. In the Biography of Emperor Mu, she became a graceful and peaceful woman who could sing ballads and was familiar with the world. In "The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty", she became a goddess who was about 30 years old and had unparalleled beauty. In later literary works, there were many descriptions of the Queen Mother of the West. She was called the "Jade Pool Golden Mother". She planted peaches of immortality and ripened once every three thousand years. Every time the peaches of immortality matured, the Queen Mother of the West held a birthday banquet and the immortals came to celebrate her birthday. Wu Chengen's Journey to the West had a wonderful description in the fifth chapter. The Jade Emperor was the Jade Emperor, whose full name was "The Supreme Jade Emperor of Haotian Golden Watchtower", also known as "Jade Emperor of Haotian Brilliant Palace" and "Jade Emperor of Xuanqiong High". He lived in the Jade Pure Palace. Taoism believed that the Jade Emperor was the king of all gods. His cultivation level was not the highest among the Taoist gods, but his divine power was the greatest. In addition to ruling over the three realms of heaven, earth, and man, the Jade Emperor God also managed the prosperity and decline of all things in the universe. It seemed that the Jade Emperor was Taoist Hongjun's gatekeeper. His name was "Haotian" and he took the throne after Taoist Hongjun disappeared. According to Ouyang Fei's Legend of the Gods [1]? The Jade Emperor used to be a stronghold master when he was alive. His name was Zhang Youren, also known as Zhang Bairen. He was the reincarnation of the son of the Heavenly Emperor. It was said that since Pangu created the world, everything was peaceful. Later, the gods began to fight, and the human world was unrestrained, causing chaos in the three worlds. Therefore, Taibai Jinxing descended to the world to find a talented and virtuous person to be the emperor of the three worlds. Taibai Jinxing turned into a beggar and searched everywhere. Later, he came to Zhangjiawan and found that Zhang Youyou, known as Zhang Bairen, was very harmonious in the village. He was kind and compassionate, so he brought him back to the Heavenly Court and became the Jade Emperor. Later on, the immortals of the Three Realms requested to jointly worship Zhang Bairen as the "Lifetime Heavenly Emperor" and called him the "Jade Emperor". Since the Jade Emperor was the general emperor of the Three Realms, he was also called the "Jade Emperor" or "Jade Emperor God Jade Emperor".”
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