Shiji Niangniang
| Shiji Niangniang | |||||||||||||
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Statue of Shiji Niangniang at the Sanyuan Cave Temple | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 石磯娘娘 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 石矶娘娘 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Madam Rocky | ||||||||||||
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Shiji Niangniang (Chinese: 石磯娘娘; lit. 'Lady Rocky') is a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Fengshen Yanyi. She was a 10,000-year-old demoness, originally a stone, born outside the heavens and the earth during the Chaos and Xuanhuang eras. Shiji is worshipped as a deity in Chinese folk religion.
She also appeared in the religious compendium Sanjiao Soushen Daquan (Compendium of Information on the Gods of the Three Religions, 三教搜神大全).