Momu

In Chinese legendary chronology Momu is presented as a woman of the Yellow Emperor's court, commonly named as his fourth wife. Traditional accounts attribute to her the invention of the mirror (one source dates this attribution to a traditional chronology around the 27th century BC). One popular account recounts that she healed a girl who had been bitten by a poisonous snake and, following that event, was invited to oversee aspects of divine administration. These elements place her in the roster of early culture-heroine figures associated with Huangdi-era narratives.

Later traditions emphasize Momu's extreme unattractiveness: sources describe her as "an extraordinarily ugly woman" with a hunched back and club-feet and explicitly place her among the so-called "Five Ugliest Women of Ancient China." The available material does not supply a canonical iconography or details of dress and regalia; the emphasized traits are preserved primarily as literary labels in later storytelling.

Sources attribute to Momu two practical, non-combative powers: cultural-technological invention and remedial healing. She is traditionally credited with inventing the mirror and is reported in one account to have healed a girl bitten by a poisonous snake, an act after which she was invited to take on responsibilities concerning divine administration. The excerpts do not record combative, malevolent, or cosmically transformative powers beyond these inventor/healer and administrative attributions.