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Xitianmu is the Queen Mother, who is honored as the Queen Mother of the West and the wife of the Jade Emperor.

In the Taoist myth system, the Queen Mother is the highest goddess in the sky and the wife of the Jade Emperor, one of the highest gods. In the famous Taoist temple, she is generally described as a very beautiful woman of about 30 years old. The formation of the Queen Mother has undergone a long-term evolution, and her earliest source surprised people.

In ancient mythology, she was called "the Queen Mother of the West", and there are records about her in China's oldest works. At that time, her image was a monster with tiger teeth and leopard tail. She lives in Kunlun Mountain and is actually a tribal leader or totem in western China. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), Taoism rose, and she began to be included in the myth system and gradually evolved into a noble goddess. ?

In many of China's later ancient works, she began to become the queen of heaven, the god of human happiness and longevity. She also said that she has a magic medicine that can make people live forever. The famous moon god Chang 'e flew to the moon because she stole her magic medicine. Taoism holds the queen mother in high esteem, believing that she is the leader of all goddesses and manages the immortals with her husband.

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The historical origin of the appearance of the Queen Mother of the West should be attributed to the opening of the Silk Road and frequent cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. His personal factors are related to the western complex of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and his religious myth is caused by the impact and expansion of the eastern immortal system, which is also a reflection of the immortal thought entering the lower class and popularizing the whole people.

But at the beginning, the image of the Queen Mother of the West was the same as that described in Shan Hai Jing, and she was a god who could ward off evil spirits in the Western Heaven. People choose the Queen Mother of the West as the content of portraits of coffins and tombs, firstly because of her ability to ward off evil spirits.

As for the fact that the Queen Mother of the West can make fairy medicine, which can make people break away from the secular world and live forever, that is an understanding derived from the later period. The rich and beautiful image of the western queen mother should be derived from the cognition of western female beauty after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.