Shiji Niangniang

Shiji Niangniang
Statue of Shiji Niangniang at the Sanyuan Cave Temple
Traditional Chinese石磯娘娘
Simplified Chinese石矶娘娘
Literal meaningMadam Rocky
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShíjī Niángniáng
Wade–GilesShih2-chi1 Niang2-Niang2
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSek6 Gei1 Noeng4 Noeng4

Shiji Niangniang (Chinese: 石磯娘娘; lit. 'Lady Rocky') is character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Fengshen Yanyi.[1] She was a 10,000-year-old demoness, originally a stone, born outside the heavens and the earth during the Chaos and Xuanhuang eras.[2][3][4] Shiji is worshipped as a deity in Chinese folk religion.

She also appreaed in the religious compendium Sanjiao Soushen Daquan (Compendium of Information on the Gods of the Three Religions, 三教搜神大全).[5]

  1. ^ "天庭有她一席之地?石矶娘娘被太乙真人炼回顽石原形后,去了哪里_手机搜狐网". Sohu (in Chinese). 18 January 2019.
  2. ^ Yu, Anthony C. (2001). Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09013-9.
  3. ^ Yang, Lihui; An, Deming; Turner, Jessica Anderson (2008). Handbook of Chinese Mythology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-533263-6.
  4. ^ 彦辰說封神之神仙道 (in Chinese). Beijing Book Co. Inc. 2018. ISBN 978-957-579-912-0.
  5. ^ 神勇小哪吒大战龙王 (in Chinese). 海燕出版社. 2005. ISBN 978-7-5350-2952-2.