The belief in the god of wind, also known as Feng Bo or Feng Shi, has a very long history. According to the Shanmei Jing and the Daxiang Bei Jing, Chi You raised an army and attacked the Yellow Emperor. Feng Bo and Yu Shi were asked to cause heavy rain and strong winds. According to the Zhou Li and the Dazong Bo, Nan Liao was used to worship Sizhong, Siming, Feng Shi and Yu Shi.
After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the beliefs in the wind gods gradually unified. In the Central Plains, the wind god was believed to be a constellation, while in the south, the wind god was believed to be in the shape of a bird or a flying demon with wings. Ying Zhao's “Customs and Practices: Rituals” states that according to “The Zhou Li” (Rites of Zhou), the wind god is worshipped with incense. The wind god is also known as the star of the dipper, which is in charge of winnowing and can cause wind. The character for wind in the Book of Changes is the first daughter, and the eldest is the elder brother, so it is called the elder brother of wind. It beats with thunder and lightning, nourishes all things with rain and wind, and is helpful to people. The king worships it to thank it for its help. The god of the twelfth lunar month is the elder brother of wind, so it is worshipped on the day of Bingxu in the northwest, where fire wins over metal and is the ruler of wood .
 Cai Yong's Solitary Judgment also says: The god of the elder brother of wind is the star of the constellation Kei. Its image is in the sky, and it can raise the wind.
Feilian is also sometimes called Feilian, and its image is very strange. “Chu Ci · Li Sao” Qian Wangshu makes the herald, and after Feilian makes the running servants. Wang Yi's annotation says: Feilian is also called Feng Bo. Hong Xingzu's annotation says: Ying Zhao said that Feilian is a divine bird that can cause the wind and the weather. Jin Zhuo said that Feilian is a deer with a head like a sparrow, horns and a snake tail with leopard spots. The “Huai Nan Zi” (Huai Nan Classic) says: “The true man rides the Fei Lian and gallops in the outer regions, resting in the inner regions, lighting up the ten days and causing rain and wind.” Gao You's commentary says: “Fei Lian is the name of a beast with long fur and wings.”
After the Qin and Han dynasties, Taoism absorbed this belief, listing the Wind God among the gods, unifying the beliefs of the two. For example, “Yun Ji Qi Xi” (Yun Ji Qi Xi) says that the name of the Wind God is Za, and his title is Chang Yu. Za is a description of the characteristics of the wind. Changyu refers to the wind blowing on the earth and giving birth to living things. Volume 7 of “The Search for the Origins of the Three Religions and the Great Gods” calls the Feng Bo god Fei Lian, as Ying Zhao said, he can cause the wind to blow. He looks like a deer, with a jade head, horns, and a snake-like tail, as big as a leopard. Volume 2 of “A General History of Immortals Throughout the Ages” also says: Fei Lian was born with the body of a deer and the tail of a snake, the head of a goblin and horns like a goat, and he studied with the immortal Yizhen, the same master as Chiyou. He lived in the southern Qi region and saw a stone on a hill. Whenever it rained or snowed, it would fly up like a swallow, and when the weather cleared, it would return to normal. He was curious and looked, and at midnight saw a thing as big as a sack, with leopard spots but no legs. It breathed in two mouthfuls towards the ground and spewed it out, and a violent wind suddenly arose, scattering the stone swallows. It walked with the swiftness of a bird, so he chased and captured it. It was the Wind Mother, able to control the news of the eight winds and understand the climate of the five seasons. Even today, there is a Fengboshi Mountain in Qiyang, Yongzhou, which is said to be the same mountain from that time.
Later, people further personified the wind god, and several more famous wind gods appeared.
Fang Tianjun's “Jishuo Quanzhen” quotes “Shiwu Yilv Minglu” as saying: The wind god is also known as Xun Er, also known as Fengyi, also known as Fang Tian Daozhang. Nowadays, the statue of the wind god is of an old man with white beard, holding a wheel in his left hand and a fan in his right hand, which looks like a fan-shaped wheel. He is called the wind god Fang Tianjun.
Meng Po Meng Po is the wind god of the south, and his worship was prevalent during the Northern Qi dynasty. In the ninth volume of the Ming dynasty writer Yao Meng's “Liu Qing Ri Zha”, it is said that Li Taoji of the Northern Qi dynasty asked Lu Xiushi what god Meng Po was in Jiangnan. Lu Xiushi replied that according to the “Classic of Mountains and Seas”, the emperor's daughter swam in the river, and rain and wind always accompanied her. This emperor's daughter was Meng Po.
Yang Shen's “General Record of the Red Boat”: During the seventh lunar month in Jiangnan, there was a strong wind that was even stronger than the oars of the boats. The barbarians passed it down as Mengpo's anger.

    风神亦称风伯、风师，其信仰起源甚早。《山梅经·大荒北经》蚩尤作兵，伐黄帝。请风伯、雨师，纵大风雨。《周礼·大宗伯》以楠燎祀司中、司命、风师、雨师。
春秋战国以后，风神信仰逐渐统一，中原一带信仰的风神为星宿，南方一带信仰的风神则为鸟形或带有羽翼的飞廉。应昭《风俗通义·祀典》谨按《周礼》云：以楠燎祀风师。风师者，箕星也，箕主簸扬，能致风气。《易·巽》为长女也，长者伯，故日风伯。鼓之以雷霆，润之以风雨，养成万物，有功于人，王者祀以报功也。戌之神为风伯，故以丙戌日祀于西北，火胜金为木 
相也。又蔡邕《独断》曰：风伯神，箕星也。其象在天，能兴风。
飞廉有时也称作蜚廉，其形象非常古怪。《楚辞·离骚》前望舒使先驱兮，后飞廉使奔属。王逸注曰：飞廉，风伯也。洪兴祖注日：应昭曰，飞廉神禽，能致风气，晋灼曰，飞廉鹿身，头如雀，有角而蛇尾豹文。《淮南子·真》曰：真人骑蜚廉，驰于外方，休于宇内，烛十日而使风雨。高诱注曰：蜚廉，兽名，长毛有翼。
秦汉以后，道教吸收了这一信仰，列风神入神系，将二者信仰进行统一。如《云笈七羲》称风神名吒，号长育。吒是说明风的特征。长育是指风吹拂大地，化生生物。《三教源流搜神大全》卷七称风伯神为飞廉，正如应昭所说的能致风气，身似鹿，头似爵，有角，尾似蛇，大如豹。《历代神仙通鉴》卷二亦云：蜚廉生得鹿形蛇尾，爵头羊角，与蚩尤同师一真道人，迸居南祁，见寸山之石，每遇风雨则飞起似燕，天晴安状如故。怪而觇之，夜半见一物大如囊，豹文而无足，向地吸气二口喷出，狂风骤发，石燕纷飞。廉步如飞禽，乃追而擒之，是为风母，能掌八风消息，通五运之气候。至今在永州祁阳还有座风伯山，相传即是当年之山。
后来人们将风神进一步人格化，从而出现了几位比较著名的风神。
方天君《集说诠真》引《事物异名录》曰：风神名巽二，又名风姨，又名方天道彰。今惜塑风伯像，白须老翁，左手持轮，右手执扇，若扇轮状。称曰风伯方天君。
孟婆孟婆为南方风神，大约在北齐时信仰盛行。明人口艺蘅《留青日札》卷九中称北齐李陶酴(音涂)问陆秀士，江南的孟婆是何神。秀士答道，据《山海经》中记载，帝之女游于江中，出入必以风雨自随。这帝女，就是孟婆。
杨慎《丹船总录》江南七月间，有大风甚于舶棹，野人相传为孟婆发怒。