 Often this Paradise was presided over by Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of Meng Hao in the West, in later accounts was relocated to a palace protected by golden ramparts, within which immortals ("xian") feasted on bear paws, monkey lips, and the livers of dragons, served at the edge of the Lake of Gems.Every 6000 years the peaches which conferred immortality upon those who ate them would be served (except the time when they were purloined by Monkey King) (Christie 1968