The pillars of metal and stone could still be seen. At the time of the First Emperor, there was a crossway of eighty li to Mount Li, and people walked over the bridge, carts drove under the bridge. Li was encountered by the first emperor of China Qin Shi Huang from the nearby capital city of Xianyang, according to a lost Late Han source, the San Qinji (三秦記, ′Record of the Three Qin′), and scholars believe this "nymph" should be identified with Lishan Laomu. Ī divine woman or "nymph" (神女) associated with the hot spring west or northwest of Mt. The Later Han ( Eastern Han) compilation Han shu stated that the "Lady of Li Mountain" once ruled as the Child of Heaven between the Shang(17th-11th cent. Li, who married a western barbarian chieftain named Xuxuan ( 胥轩) Xuxuan then swore fealty to Zhou dynasty China and guarded the Western March ( 西陲), thus bringing the western peoples (the xirong 西戎) under control. The older text, the Shiji from the Former Han period, states that the Marquis of Shen ( 申候), ruler during the Zhou dynasty had a certain woman ancestor born at Mt. The historical figure is recorded in the Shiji ( Records of the Grand Historian) and Hanshu ( The Book of Han). However recent scholars have skeptically labeled it as conjecture without firm proof. 1907), who insisted the personage was real and not fictional. A certain woman of Lishan living at the end of the Shang dynasty has been proposed as a historical prototypeby a late Qing dynasty scholar Yu Yue (d. The ancient origins of Lishan Laomu appears lost to "time immemorial". The Lishan Laomu legend consists of an accretion of a number of stories about her.
Lishan Laomu is one of the more popular nüxian ( 女仙, ′female celestial/immortal′) revered in the Chinese folk religion or Taoist belief.
Legends Mount Li Escaping the Heat, hanging scroll, color on silk ( Yuan Jiang, 1702) Her origins are said to derive from Nüwa, the legendary creator and mother goddess. She is a popular female immortal in the Taoist pantheon, and a high-ranking one according to some late sources. 'The Old Mother of Mount Li') is the goddess of Mount Li in Chinese religion.
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