Xiwangmu 西王母, Xi Wangmu, Hsi Wang Mu, o Reina madre de occidente, es un personaje de la mitología china que durante la dinastía Han pasó a ser una divinidad taoísta. Habita en un palacio de jade sobre el Kunlun celeste, lugar mágico donde crecen las hierbas de la inmortalidad y los peces de larga vida. Autoridad de los inmortales, son sus discípulas todas las mujeres que aspiran a obtener el Dao.

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The Queen Mother of the West, known by , is a goddess in Chinese religion and mythology, also worshipped in neighbouring Asian countries, and attested from ancient times. The first historical information on her can be traced back to oracle bone inscriptions of the fifteenth century BC that record sacrifices to a "Western Mother". Even though these inscriptions illustrate that she predates organized Taoism, she is most often associated with Taoism. From her name alone some of her most important characteristics are revealed: she is royal, female, and is associated with the west. The growing popularity of the Queen Mother of the West, as well as the beliefs that she was the dispenser of prosperity, longevity, and eternal bliss took place during the second century BC when the northern and western parts of China were able to be better known because of the opening of the Silk Road.

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