Who is the Jade Emperor? What is the relationship between the Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager?

The Queen Mother of the West, a figure in ancient myths and legends in China, is also called the Queen Mother. In the Taoist immortal system, the Queen Mother of the West is the leader of all female immortals and all Yin Qi between heaven and earth. Originally an ancient goddess in charge of elixir and punishment of evil, it is now widely circulated as a goddess to protect marriage and have children. The founder of Quanzhen religion. Later, the Queen Mother became an important Han folk belief in the Han Dynasty, and the idea of immortality contained in the belief of the Western Queen Mother also appealed to the pursuit of immortality in Taoism.

Among the orthodox Taoist gods, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother are not husband and wife. The Queen Mother of the West is the first of all female immortals and is in charge of the Fairy Island in Kunlun. The head of all male immortals is Dong, who is in charge of Penglai Fairy Island. The Jade Emperor, whose full name is "Heaven in the sky, the Golden Que in the sky is supreme, natural and wonderful, and God is a miracle for the true jade emperor", also known as "Heaven in the sky, the Jade Emperor in Tong Ming Palace" and "Jade Emperor with a lofty sky", lives in Yuqing Palace. Taoism believes that the Jade Emperor is the king of the gods, and the level of cultivation is not the highest in the Taoist hierarchy, but the theocracy is the largest. The Jade Emperor not only commands the gods of heaven, earth and human beings, but also manages the rise and fall of all things in the universe. Is the head of the gods, the Lord of the gods. But the Queen Mother of the West appeared before the Jade Emperor, so they are not husband and wife. Only China folk stories and novels think that the Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager are husband and wife.

Because the ancients first knew about the Milky Way and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and believed in the Western Queen Mother, logically speaking, the Western Queen Mother would not be allowed to create a Milky Way. It was only in the Jin Dynasty that it was said that Weaver Girl and Petunia met on July 7th every year. Who made this rule? But it is definitely not the Queen Mother of the West, because the Queen Mother of the West is not the queen of the Jade Emperor, and their status is different. One is in the sky and the other is on the ground.