巫山神女 / Wushan Goddess

巫山神女 / Wushan Goddess enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》92丨历史上第一位著名舔狗是谁？（2） as the mythic figure who turns the Chu kings’ political afterlife into literary memory. The episode retells the tradition that she is 瑶姬, a daughter of the Yan Emperor who dies young and becomes the cloud-and-rain deity of Wushan.

In the episode’s story, 楚怀王 dreams of the goddess at Gaotang near Yunmengze. She describes herself through the morning-cloud and evening-rain image, and the king later builds a “朝云” shrine nearby. This makes her the source’s explanation for the “朝云暮雨” and Wushan cloud-rain imagery.

The later scene belongs to 楚顷襄王. After 宋玉 tells him the earlier story, Mi Heng sleeps at Gaotang hoping for the same encounter. The goddess appears in his dream but remains unreachable, and the episode reads that refusal as the basis for 襄王有意，神女无心: a ruler’s desire does not make the desired figure reciprocate.

Connections

• 楚怀王 - earlier dreamer in the Gaotang story.
• 楚顷襄王 - later dreamer whose failed pursuit anchors the idiom.
• 宋玉 - literary mediator through 《高唐赋》 and 《神女赋》.
• 襄王有意，神女无心 - one-sided desire motif grounded in the source.
• 楚国, Yunmengze, Gaotang, and Wushan - cultural and geographic setting in the episode.
• myth as historical evidence and mythic source layering - guardrails for treating the story as cultural memory rather than plain event history.