Chinese mythological and legendary figures
The sixtieth place Lei Gong Dian Mother
The two immortals of the Taoist folk division of thunder discharge belong to a husband and wife deity.
Lei Gong is also known as: Lei Shi, Thunder God.
Si Zhang: God of thunder, belongs to the yang, so it is called the gong,
Magic weapon: Lei Gongchisel's hammer drill.
Basic image: Bird-faced thunder-beaked with wings on the back.
The electric mother is also known as: Golden Mother and Lightning Niangniang
The god of lightning is yin, so it is called mother.
Magic weapon: two lightning mirrors,
Basic image: a woman with elegant appearance, two clothes of white pants, and two hands are more majestic.
Main responsibilities: Manage lightning, cheer when it rains, shock lightning and even the power of the sun, and can sanction demons and monsters.
Top boss: Puhua Tianzun (i.e. Leizu)
In the people, it also gives thunder and lightning the meaning of punishing evil and promoting good, believing that Lei Gong can distinguish between good and evil in the world, enforce the law on behalf of the sky, kill the guilty, and uphold justice.
In Taoism's various rituals for praying for rain, Lei Gong Dian Mu is used as the main deity.
Legends:
According to legend, in the past, when thunder roared, it did not emit electricity first, and when it killed people, it was not very prudent.
There was a widow whose husband died early and had no sons, her family was poor, and there was only one in-law in the hall, who served her in-laws very filial and refused to remarry.
Once, her in-laws were sick and wanted to eat meat, and the family was very poor and had no money to buy meat, so she thought left and right, so she resolutely cut off the meat on her hands and cooked it to honor her in-laws.
But when her in-laws saw the tough flesh of her hands, she did not know how to understand her daughter-in-law's filial piety, but thought that her daughter-in-law was not filial, saved the good meat she bought to eat herself, and cooked the meat that was close to the skin to honor her.
She scolded, and asked Wulei to beat her daughter-in-law to death, but how did she know that Wulei really answered the order, and suddenly beat her daughter-in-law to death.
When the mortuary found that a piece of flesh had been cut off from her daughter-in-law's thigh, and there were still blood scars, she suddenly woke up and repented.
She cried and begged Lei Gong to take her daughter-in-law to be born, and Lei Gong also regretted his imprudentness, listening to the old woman's words, and actually killed a good person by mistake.
So Lei Gong played the Jade Emperor and asked for orders to give this widow as an electric mother.
Before it thunders, the electric mother can shine light, first brighten the good and evil of the world, so as not to hit people by mistake again.
So when thunder strikes now, there is a flash of electricity and then thunder.
