Covering an area of 600 square kilometers, the Black Rock City-State is a giant beast creeping in the north of the Central Plains, is the throat city of the land that enters the northern frontier, and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

Since the fall of Buri City, in order to resist strong enemies, the jurisdiction of the urban agglomerations around Black Rock City has long been taken over by the Dongfang family and the Shangguan family, and the Dugu family, who was greatly injured, withdrew into the Central Plains city Yitian City, but the Dongfang and Shangguan families have been here for almost half a month, and the war between the two major battlefields of Nanjun and Xishagu is in full swing, but there is no movement in this generation. Dongfang Lie and Shangguan Feihu knew that the calm before the war was the most terrible, and it did not mean safety, but it represented that danger was coming.

At the moment, when the night was approaching, Shangguan Feihu and Dongfang Lie were sitting on the second floor of the Starfall Pavilion, discussing something.

"Uncle, if I don't stay here, you can go back and take a look at Yuan Ji." Dongfang Lie threw his pen on the battle map.

"No, I guess that kid is fine, it's just a moment of anxiety, and it's been like this since he was a child." Shangguan Feihu rubbed his sleepy eyes.

Obviously, he didn't know what happened in Chihong Star Picking Tower last night,

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded the "Five Buckets of Rice" religion, absorbed a lot of witchcraft, and became the later "ghost religion". In 198 AD, his grandson Zhang Lu established the Taoist "Pingduzhi" in Fengdu, which became the center of Taoist mission. Later, Taoism made up a "Luo Feng Mountain", saying that it was the ghost capital governed by the Beiyin Emperor, who was the seventh-level central god of Taoism and was in charge of hell. In the Northern Wei Dynasty geographer Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water", it is said that Fengdu is the forty-fifth place in the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism.

The second is the theory of the Ghost Emperor (Tubo): when human society was still in ancient times, due to the underdevelopment of science, it was impossible to make a correct explanation when encountering some natural phenomena, and believed that all these things were dominated by ghosts and gods. The Ba and Shu tribes are mainly composed of the Diqiang tribe, two tribes. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Fengdu was the capital of Bazibe, with the continuous exchanges between the two ethnic groups of Bashu, politics, economy, culture, thought, and customs penetrated each other, so there was a common belief in the religious god - Tubo, which is the first generation of ghost emperors of the Bashu ghost tribe. This ghost emperor lives in the hidden capital, and there are still relics of the "hidden capital" in Fengdu.

The third is the Buddhist theory of "Yama King". "King Yama" is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which was originally the king of Hades in ancient Indian mythology. Buddhism continues to use this term as the demon king who governs hell. Legend has it that he had eighteen judges under him, and he was in charge of eighteen hells. According to the Sutra of All Scriptures, the "King of Yama" is the "King of Equality", and he can punish sins equally.

The fourth is the theory of Yin and Wang Chengxian, which is the most widely circulated saying in Fengdu. As early as around 270 A.D., Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty said about Yin and Wang Chengxian in his "Legend of the Immortals". Legend has it that in the Han Dynasty, there were two alchemists, one was named Yin Changsheng, who was the great-grandfather of Empress Liu Zhao; One is named Wang Fangping, an official to the court. Because they were dissatisfied with the status quo of society, they both came to Fengdu to cultivate, and in the early years of Wei Qinglong, they became immortals and left. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, the two of them were falsely rumored to be the "Yin King", that is, the king of the underworld.

Later, coupled with the continuous deliberate exaggeration of the ruling class of successive dynasties, literati and officials of successive dynasties described through novels, poems, travelogues and inscriptions, such as "Journey to the West", "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", "Western Records" and so on. Therefore, a more comprehensive ghost town was formed in Fengdu. It has gone through a history of more than 2,000 years from the illusory to the real, organically combining Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese ghost culture; Combine Bayu culture, Central Plains culture and foreign culture; combining folklore and legend imagination with reality; The combination of architecture, sculpture, painting and other art forms has formed the "ghost town culture" that is famous all over the world today.

The scenery of the ghost town of Fengdu

Fengdu Ghost Town is located on the southeastern edge of the Sichuan Basin, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the hometown of Qili. It is an ancient city that faces the mountains and rivers, called "Bazi Beidu" in the spring and autumn, and it is the first tourist attraction of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River from Chongqing.

"Ghost town", as the name suggests, must be haunted by ghosts and gods, and it is extremely terrifying. Descending the Yangtze River from Chongqing, the ghost town of Fengdu is hidden in the mountains on the shore, adding a sense of mystery and gloom.

The ghost town of Fengdu is known as the "ghost country of Kyoto" and "the underworld". According to the Wei and Jin dynasties, Fengdu is located next to the Liutianqing River, there are three palaces and nine mansions, the palace tower is like a heavenly court, and the ghost emperor sits here, ruling hundreds of millions of ghosts and gods. It is the place where the legendary human souls of the dead are located, and the treasure house of folk culture and art integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoist folk culture, and is known as the "hometown of the Chinese Divine Comedy" and "the capital of the human soul".

Legend has it that this is the place where the souls of people return after death. "Ghost City" Fengdu, the ancient trees on the famous mountain are towering to the sky, the temples are numerous, in the huge underworld, the immortals and the gods and ghosts are entrenched in the temples, the hierarchy is strict, each performs its duties and rules the legendary ghost world with harsh punishments.

The ghost city of Fengdu has a history of more than 2,000 years and has always been regarded as the destination of the undead of mankind.

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Fengdu Ghost Town

The city is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China, and its Fengdu ghost town is known for its rich ghost culture where the Yin Cao Difu is located.

With its long history, unique cultural connotation, magical legends, beautiful scenery and irreplaceable ornamental value, the ghost city of Fengdu is a rare ghost culture research carrier and unique source, showing the mysterious oriental Shenshao to Chinese and foreign tourists. The "ghost city" of Fengdu is a "netherworld mansion" built by people by imagination, and people have built a series of underworld institutions such as "Hades Palace", "Ghost Gate Pass", "Yin and Yang Realm", and "Eighteen Layers of Hell" with a legal mechanism similar to that of the human world. The images of ghosts and gods in each level are varied and strange. The torture instruments are terrifying and chilling.

Historical origins

If you want to make it clear that Fengdu is falsely rumored to be a ghost town, the earliest historical origin, I am afraid to start from the first generation of ghost emperors of the Bashu and Qiang tribes, Tubo, who lived in the "ghost country".

Bashu Qiang tribe

According to the research of some historians, originally lived in the Tianshui area in southern Gansu, due to the tenth century BC to the ninth century BC, China's climate had a major change, the climate in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty was relatively warm, but soon deteriorated. According to the Bamboo Book Chronicle, during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, froze twice in 903 and 897 B.C., and the freezing was followed by a great drought. This means that there was a cold period in the 10th century BC, which lasted about one to two centuries, and it was not until the spring and autumn that the climate warmed. Because of this cold period, the Di people, who originally lived in Longnan and were distributed at the junction of today's Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan, moved southward. One of them went down through the Han River basin to form an alliance with the Ba tribe. There is Fancheng in Xiangyang, Hubei Province today, which should be one of the Fan surnames of the Di nationality in the southward migration. The other group went down through the Jialing River basin and moved to northern Sichuan, and the "Banduman" in the northeast of Sichuan included the tribes from the Qiang system.

The Qiang tribe moved south

east to today's Hubei and Xiangxi; It extends from the west of Sichuan to the northeast of Yunnan in the south. The Ba people's activity center was mainly active in the Hanshui basin from the Yin Shang to the Spring and Autumn Period, and later moved west to Sichuan due to the invasion of Chu. After entering Sichuan, the country of Pakistan was established, and when it was strong, the southeast of Sichuan and the west of Hunan were its southern borders. The Shu and Qiang tribes in Cuba are also known as the two tribes of the ghost tribe, in the long-term exchanges, because they all believe in ghosts and witches, they have produced a common belief in the primitive religious god - Tubo, known as the first generation of ghost emperors of the two tribes of Bashu, this ghost emperor lives in the hidden capital. Eastern Han Dynasty Gao lure note "Huainanzi. The Falling Shape Chapter said: "The ancient seclusion is north of Yanmen. "A "secluded capital", a "north of Yanmen", it is difficult to say, there is a secluded capital in Youzhou in ancient times, and Yanmen refers to the area of Yanmen Pass in Shanxi; However, it is impossible for the Bashu Qiang ghost tribe to be in the north, so some people believe that this "north of Yanmen" is in present-day Sichuan. Fengdu was used as the capital of Bashu in ancient times, and later it was rumored to be the "hidden capital" of the "ghost country". This "ghost country and secluded capital" probably means "the capital of the ghost clan".

The ghost clan believes in witches

There must be witchcraft; The ghost clan has a primitive religion, and it must establish a god, this god is the first generation of ghost emperors, and Tubo is said to be the first god in the land of Gufengdu. Some people may think that this is nonsense, but later Zhang Daoling founded the "Five Bucket Rice Dao" in Sichuan, also known as the "Ghost Dao", and Zhang Tianshi absorbed the witchcraft of the Diqiang tribe as his spell to exorcise ghosts and cure diseases; Later, Taoism was one of the Youzhi in the city, during which it was internally related to the first generation of ghost emperors of Bashu who lived in Guyu.

Fengdu, since ancient times, is a famous cultural city, is a very distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China, used to be a small town, where there are many legends of ghosts and gods.

According to the "Fengdu County Chronicles" and the Jin Ge Hong's "Legend of the Immortals", the folk legend of the clouds, the Han Dynasty Wang Fangping, Yin Changsheng and the two Fangshi had cultivated into immortals in Pingdu Mountain, and the Taoists then set up a heavenly master in this mountain, and listed it as one of the "36 caves of heaven, 72 blessed lands". Later generations attached the "Yin and Wang" as the "Yin King" (the king of the underworld), and the residence was the "ghost capital". Pingdu Mountain is also gradually attached to the "Yin Capital". Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "Laughing at the sergeant of the world, sinking the soul of Beifengdu", which made the name of the ghost city far and wide. After the rendering of the novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is more mysterious and grotesque. The ghost city imitates the judicial system of the yang world, creating a hierarchical and strict "underworld" that integrates the functions of arrest, detention, trial, judgment, and education in one furnace to punish those who committed adultery and criminals before their deaths. Although the little ghost of the Hades judge is only a legend, it is praised for its social and educational function of punishing evil and promoting good.

Fengdu Ghost City Scenic Area is divided into Ghost City Famous Mountain Scenic Area and Ghost King Stone Carving Scenic Area.

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The famous scenic spots include Naihe Bridge, Ghost Gate Pass, Eighteen Layers of Hell, Hum Ha Temple, Bao'en Palace, Wangxiang Terrace, etc., each of which interprets the true meaning of ghost town folk culture of "punishing evil and promoting good". Among them, the "Yin Cao Difu" statue group simulates human lawsuits, courts, prisons, etc., with strange ideas and realistic expressions, which reflect the Chinese concepts of gods and ghosts, heaven and hell, and there are inscriptions of celebrities such as Su Shi, Lu You, and Fan Chengda on the famous mountain.

The ghost town of Fengdu has unique attractions and rich connotations. There are national key scenic spots, scenic spots and historic sites in the Three Gorges Scenic Area of the Yangtze River, and the largest ghost and god dynamic cultural landscape in China. There are the national forest park Shuanggui Mountain, as well as the world's largest ghost king stone carvings, China's largest and largest number of Han tombs, the thrilling Dragon River drifting, and the beautiful scenery of Siping low-altitude forest park for leisure and vacation.

The main landscapes are: Fengdu Famous Mountain, Shuanggui Mountain, "Ghost Country Shrine", "Yin Si Street", is the largest cultural and cultural landscape of ghosts and gods in China, and is also the most spectacular dynamic cultural landscape in the southwest region, there are also strange and spectacular buildings, large density, large time span, high cultural value, it is rare in the country to be the Huinan Han Tomb Group; There are tree people and ghost stone carvings under construction, as well as low-altitude (380-520 meters above sea level) Siping Forest Park, Sanfu primitive forest farm, Longhe Scenic Area (karst cave, rafting) and other natural landscapes.

The famous mountain scenic spot is verdant, the building is exquisite, the drum and the morning bell, the river and the mountain are in one vein; The morning glow and sunset, the scenery is intoxicating, the temples and halls are like Senluo, and the pavilions and pavilions stand by the mountain; Celebrities and celebrities are elegant, and the inscriptions are timeless. The main scenic spots are the country's largest folk culture dynamic cultural landscape ghost country shrine, "Yin Cao Difu" statue group respectively simulates human lawsuits, courts, prisons, torture, etc., with peculiar conception and realistic demeanor. There are also inscriptions of celebrities such as Su Shi, Lu You, and Fan Chengda on the mountain. Shuangguishan National Forest Park is adjacent to the famous mountain.

The ghost city imitates the judicial system of the yang world, creating a "Yin Cao Underworld" with strict hierarchies and integrating the functions of arrest, detention, trial, judgment, and education. Punish those who committed adultery before their deaths. Although the little ghost of the Hades judge is only a legend, its social education function of punishing evil and promoting good is praised by people.

Guan yin

It is the first Bodhisattva of the Buddha country, also known as Guanzi, Cihang Master and so on. According to the "Lotus Sutra": distressed sentient beings, praising the Bodhisattva wholeheartedly, all get liberation, with the name Guanyin, the Tang Dynasty Gang avoided Li Shimin's name, omitted the "world", referred to as Guanyin, the meaning is: when sentient beings are suffering, as long as they recite their names, the Bodhisattva will "see" this voice and immediately go to the rescue.

Pingdu Mountain

The original name of the famous mountain was "Pingdu Mountain", which was renamed because of the poem "Pingdu Ancient Famous Mountain in the World" inscribed by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty. It has an altitude of 287.3 meters and an area of 0.45 square kilometers. Legend has it that in the Han Dynasty, Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping had successively cultivated in Pingdu Mountain and became immortals, and they soared in the daytime. Taoists list this place as one of the "blessed lands" of the Taoist capital. In the Tang Dynasty, some people mistakenly combined the surnames "Yin" and "Wang" as "Yin King", so the famous mountain was gradually attached to the legend as the place where the "Yin King" (the king of the underworld) lived, that is, it evolved into the ghost capital of "Yin Cao Difu". And then built a lot of temples and temples related to the "underworld". There are more than 30 such as Hum Ha Temple, Bao'en Palace, Naihe Bridge, Jade Emperor Palace, Baizi Palace, Impermanence Palace, Daxiong Treasure Palace, Ghost Gate Pass, Huangquan Road, Wangxiangtai, Tianzi Palace, Erxian Building, City God Palace, Nine Python Palace, etc. There are also inscriptions of celebrities such as Su Shi, Lu You, and Fan Chengda on the mountain.

Hum Ha Temple

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The second general of the inner plastic hum. Legend has it that the hum general is called Zheng Lun, who was originally the general of the king of Shang, the official to the general of the grain, and once worshiped the real person as a teacher, and learned a stunt. When he touched the enemy, his nose hummed like a bell, and spewed out two white lights, sucking people's souls, Zheng Lun relied on this trick to defeat many opponents. Later, he was captured by King Wu of Zhou's generals, and took refuge in King Wu of Zhou, still serving as a grain governor.

The general Chen Qi is also the general of the king of Shang, who once taught the secret technique of aliens, refining a stream of yellow gas in the abdomen, opening his mouth, the yellow gas gushing, and the opponent's soul dispersed. Chen Qi once fought with Zheng Lun who descended to Zhou, humming and haha, regardless of victory or defeat. Later, Chen Qi was stabbed to death by Zhou General Huang Feihu. After King Wu was destroyed, Jiang Ziya returned to the country and became a god, and Zheng Lun and Chen Qi guarded the two mountain gates, announced the enlightenment, protected the magic weapon, and became the god of the two generals.

Hall of Thanks

The hall was originally built in the Republic of China and rebuilt in 1984, covering an area of 234.4 square meters

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Fengdu Ghost Town

The Bodhisattva Mu Lian, flanked by his disciples Min Gong and Min Zhi. Mulian is also called Muganlian, is one of the ten disciples of Shakyamuni, legend has it that he has great powers, can fly to the sky, is the first line of filial piety, is very admired by the world, and the incense continues all year round. According to the "Buddha Says the Bon Sutra", there was a rich man named the Minister of Magadha in ancient India, and his wife was called Qingti. The prime minister respects the monks very much, but Qingti, on the contrary, hates the monks very much. In their later years, the couple had a son named Mulian. Seven days after she was born, her father died. When Muren grew up, he became a father, still respected the monks, and longed for the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). In order to inherit her father's business, Mulian decided to go out into business. Before leaving, he said to his mother: When the child goes out to seek wealth, the mother should accumulate virtue at home and treat the monks well. Qingti agreed to her son's request. But as soon as her son left, she still went her own way, beating and scolding the monks. When Mulian returned home, she heard the neighbors saying that her mother was very unkind to the monks, so she reprimanded her. Qingti vowed: "If I treat the monks badly, I will not die well within seven days." Sure enough, in less than seven days, Qingti fell ill and died. After her mother's death, Mulian scattered her family's belongings to her neighbors and continued her practice alone in the yang world. When he came to Heaven after attaining enlightenment, he saw that his father was enjoying the glory and wealth of the country, but he did not see his mother, so he asked his master Shakyamuni what the reason was. The Buddha told Mulian: Your mother did not respect Buddhism, and was beaten down to the eighteen layers of hell and suffered from hanging upside down, and became a hungry ghost. If you want to save your mother, you must prepare a hundred flavors of food on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month and make offerings to the monks of the ten directions, so that your mother can be exceeded. This was the origin of the later Buddhist Bon Festival.

So Mulian's mother was rescued. But after his mother went through reincarnation, she was reincarnated as a dog in Wangshe City, and everyone saw that there was a dog under the lotus seat of Mulian, which was Mulian's mother. Since then, the Obon Festival has also been called the Oni Society. It is said that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, people do not go out.

Temple of the God of Wealth

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The statues in the hall are the god of literature and wealth and the god of wealth Zhao Gongming. Anyone who has watched "The Romance of the Gods" knows that Bigan is the uncle of the king of Shang, who is upright and loyal to the king. Not only did the king turn a deaf ear, but Su Daji, who was originally the incarnation of the fox spirit, provoked him to do more harm than him. Once, Su Daji said to the king with a sad face: I have a heartache and mouth disease, and I must eat Bigan's heart to live. So when Bigan forcibly exhorted him again, the king said angrily: It is said that the human heart has seven knots, but I want to see how many knots your heart has. So he ordered him to cut open his chest, take out his heart, and give Su Daji medicine. Bigan rode into the street with a heartless body

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When the horse came to the street, he saw a woman selling water spinach, so Bigan stepped forward and asked, "What if the food has no heart, but what if a person has no heart?" The woman did not lift her head, but said only one word, "Death." So Bigan fell to the ground and died. Because Bigan is an "unintentional" prime minister, he can handle things fairly and handle cases impartially, so later generations built a temple for him and named him the god of literature and wealth.

The God of Martial Arts is Zhao Gongming. In fact, Zhao Gongming is a fictional character of Taoism. Legend has it that he is Zhong Kui's hometown, a native of Zhongnan Mountain, Shaanxi, and is the embodiment of Heavenly Haoting's Heavenly Wisdom and Wisdom. Because he saw Qin Shi Huang's cruelty and unkindness, he lived in seclusion in the mountains. It was not until the Western Han Dynasty that Zhang Daoling entered Huming Mountain to practice and accepted him as an apprentice, and ordered him to ride a black tiger to protect the Dan furnace. After Zhang Daoling became a heavenly master, he ordered him to guard the "Xuantan" (Taoist altar), so Zhao Gongming is also known as Zhao Xuantan. Later, he was summoned by the Jade Emperor as the deputy marshal of Shenxiao, with many positions and many titles. In "Sou Shen Daquan", it is said that after Zhang Daoling ascended, he guarded Longhu Mountain, specializing in overtaking those who had done good deeds or sincerely repented. His subordinates have eight fierce generals to respond to gossip; There are six poisonous gods, in response to the six evils of heaven, earth, year, month, day, and hour; There are five thunder gods and five rampant soldiers to respond to the five elements; There are twenty-eight generals, and there are twenty-eight constellations; and the combination of heaven and earth, managing the affairs of water and fire in heaven and earth, also symbolizing the meaning of spring and autumn. He can drive thunder and lightning, call wind and rain, remove temperature and epidemics, dispel diseases, and also manage litigation, apply for justice, redress unjust cases, supervise transactions and make both parties rich. Therefore, it is worshiped as the god of wealth by the people.

It was originally an annex building of Liaoyang Palace. It is a "golden bridge" that communicates history and reality, connects the yin and yang worlds, examines goodness and evil, and declares life and death. On the left is the health bridge, which symbolizes health every year, and on the right is the wealth bridge, which symbolizes wealth every year, which is the famous "gold test bridge".

However, the bridge is the first level of the legend of "passing the three levels". Legend has it that when a person dies, he will drink Meng Po soup, and after crossing the Nai He Bridge, he will forget his past life and throw himself into a new life. After crossing the bridge, the husband and wife can hold hands and pass and take even steps; Or those who come singlely, take a few steps to be happy and safe. The bridge has been smeared with sesame oil, and you must not slip when you walk through, otherwise you will be suspicious of ups and downs.

Folklore: After death, the soul has to cross the Nai River Bridge, the good have the protection of the gods and Buddhas to cross the bridge smoothly, and the evil person is beaten into the blood river pool to suffer. This is described in detail in the book "Investigation of Religious Customs in Xudu": "...... The bridge is divided into three layers (or three), the ghosts of the good can safely pass through the upper bridge, the good and the evil cross the middle bridge, and the ghosts of the wicked cross the lower bridge, and are mostly stopped by the ghosts into the dirty waves under the bridge, and are bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs. Every year, during the incense festival, pilgrims compete to throw paper money or copper plates into the pool, and sprinkle fried rice into the pool, thinking that they can give it to hungry ghosts. Many elderly pilgrims like to walk from above, thinking that if they walk across this bridge, they can avoid the pain of crossing the Nai River Bridge after death. ”

Liaoyang Palace

It was originally the incense hall of Ming Shu to offer Wang Zhu Chun. Zhu Chun, the king of Shuxian, is known as "Shu Xiucai", and is said to be the eleventh son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and was named the king of Shu in the twenty-third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1390). He is gentle, martial, handsome, and has the demeanor of a general in every move, so he is deeply favored by Zhu Yuanzhang. After he entered Sichuan, he quickly quelled the riots of the people in the north and south, and advocated etiquette and religion, lightly punished the thin endowment, the corporal of etiquette and virtue, and recruited talents. The history says that "the Shu people have settled down from this, and they are getting richer and richer, and the middle of Sichuan has not been revolutionized by the military for two hundred years, and Chun Li is also". The rebuilt one has a history of more than 300 years. The whole hall covers an area of 2431 square meters, and is composed of three parts: the archway, the mountain gate and the hall, which are symmetrically arranged on a central axis. The memorial arch is the triple eaves square of wood and stone structure, about 10 meters high, the mountain gate is the heavy eaves rest mountain roof, the bell and drum towers on both sides are the four corners of the spire, the hall is the brick and wood structure, the hard gabled roof, wear the comic beam frame. The temple is the core part of the ghost city, and it is also the oldest building age, the largest area, the largest and the most well-preserved temple on the famous mountain.

Death

Legend has it that the Ghost Gate Pass is a mandatory checkpoint to enter the Ghost Country. Whoever comes here must be checked to see if they have a ghost country pass. This is the basis for reporting to the ghost country after death. Lu Yin is 3 feet long and 2 feet wide, and is printed on yellow soft paper, with the inscription "This guide is necessary for the Fengdu Tianyu Yama Emperor to send to Lu Yin and the people of the whole world before he can go to the underworld to reincarnate and ascend to heaven." The road guide is stamped with three seals of "Yin Si Chenghuang and Fengdu County Government". Anyone who burns it when he is buried or cremated after death will come to the underworld with his soul, and wherever he goes, he can be unimpeded in the underworld, summoning people's souls to test people's souls. After the calculation, summon the earth yin god, and summon the earth mansion, collect the form and body, and test its soul god. Jin Gehong's pillow book Yiyun: "Zhang Heng Yang Yun is the ghost emperor of the north, and he governs Luo Yu Mountain" (the magistrate of the underworld region).

Tao Hongjing's true spiritual position diagram divides the Taoist true spirit into seven levels: the seventh Emperor of Beiyin - Emperor Yan Ting clan, Qingjia, the sect of ghosts and gods in the world, and the rule of Luo Yu Mountain, three thousand years and one replacement.

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Emperor Xudu is the master of hell. Ranked among the gods of the underworld

Emperor Xudu

The highest position, in charge of the Hades, is the sect of ghosts in the world. All living beings and the like go to hell after death, and their souls are all under the jurisdiction of Emperor Xudu, who kills ghosts and punishes ghosts for the sins they committed in life. In the temple dedicated to the Emperor of Xudu in the old days, there were more than 75 divisions (one said 72 divisions), each of which was responsible for the function of collecting and chasing ghosts and informing ghosts of entering and leaving. If the relatives of Yang Si are over-atoned for the ghosts of the underworld, they will also be pardoned by the Emperor Xudu and sent to the ghosts to be refined and ascended to heaven.

Enshrined

Generally, it is only after the death of relatives and when the soul is overlived that the Emperor Xudu is enshrined. Since the Qing Dynasty, there are many people who have pre-built the Huangqi Dojo for themselves before their deaths, so there are also those who pray for health and longevity when they build the Yansheng Dojo during their lifetimes.

Records

"On Heng and Ordering Ghosts" quotes the cloud of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas": "There is a ghost country in the north,...... In the middle of the sea, there is the mountain of Dushuo, there is a big peach tree, its Qupan is three thousand miles, and its branches are between

Emperor Xudu

The northeast is called the ghost gate, and all ghosts go in and out. There are two gods and people, one is called Shen Tu and the other is Yu Lei, and the Lord reads and leads ten thousand ghosts. "The Taiping Sutra" has many soil mansions, and the earth lord summons people's souls and examines people's souls, such as volume 12 says: "The Great Yin Law Cao, counting the burden, dividing and subtracting the year." After the calculation, summon the earth yin god, and summon the earth mansion, collect the form and body, and test its soul god. Volume 14 and clouds: "For the evil is not stopped, it is connected with the dead book, passed on to the earth, and its form is hidden, when will it come back?" The spirit is closed, asking what he did when he was born, the words are different, seeing the plundering again, the soul is extremely bitter, who is to blame? Jin Gehong's "Book in the Pillow" contains: "Bao Liang is the underground master, with a real person in the hidden mountain. …… Cai Yulei is the Eastern Ghost Emperor (the magistrate of the underworld region) and governs Taoqiu Mountain. Zhang Heng and Yang Yun (magistrates of the underworld region) are the ghost emperors of the north and govern Luo Yu Mountain. These are the earlier Taoist sayings about hell and its ruling gods, which were later indiscriminate by the Fengdu Emperor.

By the time of the Southern Dynasties, Taoism's depiction of Emperor Xudu was more systematic. Tao Hongjing's "True Spirit Position Industry Map" ranks the seventh median of the immortal seat is the "Emperor of Beiyin", called it: Emperor Yan Ting clan, Qingjia, the sect of ghosts and gods in the world, governing Luo Fengshan, three thousand years and one replacement. Tao Hongjing's "True Message" volume 15 "Explain the subtle first" contains: "Luo Yu Mountain is in the northern Guidi, the mountain is 2,600 miles high, and the cycle is 30,000 miles. …… There is a ghost palace room above and below. There are six houses on the mountain,...... The first palace is called the Heavenly Palace, which is eastward, the second palace is called the Taisha Forgiveness Sect Heavenly Palace, the third palace is called the Ming Chen Nai Guilty Wucheng Heavenly Palace, the fourth palace is called the Tianzhao Sinqi Heavenly Palace, the fifth palace is called the Zongling Qifei Heavenly Palace, and the sixth palace is called the Dare Si Lianwan Repeated Heavenly Palace. The Six Heavens Palace is for the six heavens of ghosts and gods. "Zhuyun: This Six Heavenly Palace" is the residence of the ghost king of Beifeng who decides sinners, and its god should be the residence of the king of Yama through the scriptures (today), and its king is the current Emperor of Beida. …… Whoever is alive and the like will die to hell. Youyun: "Yan Qingjia, the ancient Yan Emperor, is now the Northern Emperor and the lord of the ghosts and gods in the world." Volume 13 of the "True Message" also said: "The emperor of the ghost official, the monarch of the Northern Emperor, in the palace on the first day of governance, the chief lord of the six heavenly palaces." It is a ghost official who always has the power of life and death. The above shows that Taoism has formed the belief that Emperor Xudu was in charge of hell during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and at that time it was mostly called Beidi Jun, referred to as Beidi.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Buddhist theory of hell was widely spread in the society, and there were the so-called eighteen layers of hell and the theory of ten halls of Yama to cure ghosts. The names of the Ten Kings of the "Yuan Shi Tianzun Saying the Sutra of Destroying Sins" of the "Daozang" are the same as the "Buddha Says the Ten Kings Sutra of the Bodhisattva's Heart". There is also a "Yuan Shi Shuo Du Jing".

The Taoist Emperor of Xudu was originally said to live in the north of Luo Yu Mountain, called the Northern Emperor; However, later generations took Xudu County in present-day Sichuan as a ghost town, which was the seat of the Emperor Xudu. This transformation took place around the time of the Song dynasty. Qing Yuyue's "Tea Fragrance Room Cong Banknotes" volume 16 quotes Song Fan Chengda's "Wu Chuanlu" and said: "Zhongzhou Yudu County, there is Pingdu Mountain in three miles to the county. According to the stele, the king of the Western Han Dynasty Fang Ping and the Yin Changsheng of the Later Han Dynasty are all here to get the Tao Immortals, and there is the Yin Jun Dan furnace. …… Yin Jun uses alchemy to help people, and its law is still spread. Yu Yue pressed: "Pingdu Mountain, Yudu County, one of the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism, should be a fairy cave house, and the world is said to be the residence of the ghost uncle, which is incomprehensible. Reading "Wu Biography", I know that because of the Yin Jun's rumors, the cover has been along for a long time, and I don't know that I am immortal in Yin, but I think that I am the master of the underworld, and this saying is also the origin. The same volume of "Luo Yu Mountain" is also cloudy: "According to Luo Feng Mountain, it is ruled by the ghost emperor in the north, so there is a saying that Luo Yu governs ghosts, and the secular refers to today's Xudu County, Sichuan."

Emperor Xudu

"Yi Jianzhi" cloud: "Chungju Yudu County has the Xudu Temple, and its mountain is called Panlong Mountain, which is called the place of the Arctic hell by Taoists. Gai Nan Nan has said this. Qing Fang Xiangying's "Diary of Shu" said: "The county seat of Xudu leans on Pingdu Mountain, one of the seventy-two blessed places of Taoism, and is known as the 'capital city of the ghost country'. Legend has it that the Han King Fang Ping and Yin Changsheng successively cultivated in Pingdu Mountain and became immortals, and the sun soared, and later generations misread 'Wang, Yin' as 'Yin King', and falsely rumored to be 'King of the Netherworld'. The capital is a netherworld. "The Yama Hall of the city of Xudu is misrepresented as the palace of the Emperor of Xudu, and the Bodhisattva of Jizo is falsely rumored to be the Emperor of Xudu.

Luoyu Mountain and Chongqing City. The northern land of Luoyu Mountain was originally the place where ghosts lived. Since about the Song Dynasty, some people have actually referred to Luo Yu Mountain as the county of Xudu County, Sichuan, and in the Xudu area, various hell-related buildings have been built for many generations, becoming a famous ghost capital in China. The original Pingdu Mountain in Yudu County is one of the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism. Legend has it that the Western Han Dynasty King Fang Ping, the Eastern Han Dynasty Yin Changsheng and others once cultivated here and became immortals, and the sun soared. Later generations mistakenly read the first words of Wang Fangping and Yin Changsheng as Yin King, and explained it as the king of the underworld, so the blessed land of Xudu County was regarded as the location of the Yin Cao Difu.