It has an evolutionary process and has a broad folk foundation.
It originated from the Luo Jiao that appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and its founder was Luo Menghong. In the theory of Luo Jiao and its sects, Wusheng Laomu is both the creator and the savior: she is the ancestor of mankind, created the universe and mankind, and at the same time saves the descendants who are drowning in the sea of ??suffering, sends gods and Buddhas to the earth, or herself Go down to earth in person to save sentient beings. The folk religions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties almost all regard the Inanimate Mother as the highest deity. "Inanimate Mother, empty hometown" has become the "eight-character mantra" of folk religion.