Taoist and Tibetan orthodoxy "The True Fairy Mirror of the Past Dynasties" records that "when chaos first opened, there was a divine word' Shengdi', and mother and son lived here. Qin people named it "Holy Basket", and all immortals named it "Notre Dame". The Flat Peach in the Han Dynasty also said that Empress Dowager Tai learned the Tao during the Yao Emperor's period and that "when there were no outsiders in Fujian, the gods began to expand their territory to the residents". All these accurately tell us that Empress Taimu is an ancient goddess and the earliest goddess in Fujian.
In fact, according to the modern point of view, ancient immortals are often the sublimation of ancient ancestors' worship of ancestors or outstanding figures in tribal groups. As far as Tai Lao Empress is concerned, she should be regarded as an outstanding woman among the ancient Vietnamese in the matriarchal clan era, even the first mother.
Contemporary scholars believe that the true identity of this outstanding woman is probably the mother of Emperor Yao!
In the folklore of Taimu Mountain, in ancient times, Emperor Yao and his mother visited the East China Sea, only to reach the shore in a violent wind and fog. Later, Yao's mother fell in love with this fairyland, stayed in monasticism, taught villagers to make blue tea, and finally became immortal, and was respected as a grandmother by later generations. Therefore, Caishan was renamed Taimushan.
In fact, The Biography of Nan Man in the late Han Dynasty, The Song of Huang Gao by She nationality and the ethnic origin theories of Yao, Miao and Li nationality also reveal the secrets of this period of history for us. Di Ku Gao Xin, one of the five ancient emperors, married his daughter to Pan Hu, who helped him eliminate the invasion of foreign enemies; After that, Tiger Pan moved south with his wife to expand the territory, and his descendants were ancient Vietnamese aborigines; When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went south, the indigenous people of Guyue "fled the valley" and "later prospered, and posthumous title was barbarian", which gradually evolved into southern minorities such as She nationality. According to Records of the Five Emperors in Historical Records, Emperor Yao, the king of the ancient sages, was his son, and of course he was also the brother and sister of Pan Hu's wife. Yao Di's mother, Tiger Pan's mother-in-law, left Fang Xun (Yao Di) when he was eight years old. According to the custom of matriarchal clan, she lives with her daughter.
Yaomu, who took her daughter south, mainly lived in Zhejiang and Fujian, and her descendants became the first pioneers of this land. "Old mother" means female elder. Because Yaomu is the grandmother of Guyue aborigines, it is honored as Zhongtianmu in Zhejiang, Taimu in southern Zhejiang, Damu in northern Fujian and Wu Tai in southern Fujian. Because "the land of Yao ruins is Wei", Taoist classics are also called Mrs. Wei and Wei Zhenren. Because Yao Mu was originally a member of the royal family, she was also called "Grandmother of the Emperor" and "Grandmother of the Holy Father".
Finally, Yaomu settled in Caishan, because it was originally a place where the ancestor Xuanyuan Huangdi was taught the art of health preservation, and there were many natural caves for them to live in. Therefore, later generations renamed this mountain Taimu Mountain, and when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty renamed it Taimu Mountain, Yaomu was also mythologized as the Empress Taimu.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Taimushan area has left many traces of ancient civilization. Around Taimu Mountain, more than 30 Neolithic sites have been discovered, among which Malanshan site is also a centralized processing area for Neolithic tools, indicating that it was once a gathering area for ancient humans. According to textual research, the tea-making technology of ancient white tea handed down from generation to generation in Taimushan area inherits the original tea-making technology of Chinese ancestors and is called "the living fossil of tea"; Taimushan area is a gathering area of She nationality, and the women of She nationality here must wear a "phoenix skirt" to show their nobility when they get married, because their ancestors were originally of royal descent. She people in Taimushan also claimed that their ancestors migrated from Henan, and the tribe where Yao's mother lived originally lived in Henan.
When we climb Mount Taimu after the mystery of Queen Taimu's life was uncovered, don't forget to pay a special visit to the earliest goddess in Fujian, the mother of Guyue people and the mother of Emperor Yao.