Why is there a legend about the underworld all over the world? I don't know how many people have thought about it, but it's actually a real problem, and it seems difficult to convince people with coincidence!

When I was in college, I used to help my teacher collect materials for a project and prepare a topic about world religions, and I was quite strange at that time, the world's most famous religions appeared about 3,000 years ago, that is, the Zhou Dynasty in China.

And Confucius, Shakyamuni, Aristotle, etc. were also born in this era.

Could it have been that in those days, something had ever happened on Earth?

I have a very bold guess: could it be that about 3,000 years ago, there were many people in all parts of the world who saw things in the underworld at the same time, but could not understand everything they saw, so they added their own imagination and made up some fabrications to integrate this matter into religion.

These six people should be the souls of people, and they walked along Huangquan Road to Nai He Bridge, thus entering another world.

The thought of this made me shudder.

Not really! Of the six men, five were wearing shrouds, and the other young man was wearing a prison uniform, and there was a blood hole the size of an apricot kernel in his forehead, which was supposed to be a bullet hole—it was a death row prisoner.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that my analysis is reliable! Where are the six people, it is clear that they are six souls who go to the underworld after death.

When I looked up at the six spirits again, something strange happened again.

They're gone!

I was shocked into a cold sweat - they are souls, this is the underworld, and the old glasses are gone, does it mean that I have ......

It's scary to think about!

Some distracting thoughts flashed through my mind, I took a few deep breaths, and I wanted to wash my face by the river to calm down as soon as possible, but when I thought about what kind of river this was, I still forgot it.

As soon as I looked down and saw the ring on my left hand, I suddenly thought of a solution.

Quickly touched the ring of She on the ring finger of the left hand with his right hand, and forcibly let the brain imagine the scene on the pit, I thought that the appearance of the pit had appeared in my brain, but the feeling of dizziness just didn't appear, and after waiting for half a minute, I opened my eyes, and sure enough, it was still by the river.

It seems that in this place, the ability of She Zhijie cannot be brought into play.

Thinking of the natal Gu again, I had the mentality of trying it and wanted to ask it, but I shouted it several times in the language of thought, but I didn't receive any response.

It seems that in this ghost place, the natal Gu is also inhuman.

I was really panicked now, a panic that I had never experienced before.

I'm just dead? Think about Wu Jinghan, think about how many unfulfilled wishes there are, it's really damn unwilling!

When I think about it, those souls just now are all stunned, obviously without thinking or senses, but I am no different from normal people...... Thinking so, he bent down and picked a flower from the other side.

Hands can be used too - am I not dead?

I took two deep breaths again and tried to map out the current situation in my head.

Suppose this is the Netherworld and I am not dead, with Huangquan Road at my feet and Jiuquan on one side......

What is in Hades?

I simply squatted on the ground, and although I guessed that there could be no signal on my phone at this moment, I still took it out and glanced at it, but I didn't expect the time to be 0.0 minutes.

This proves that this is the underworld, because my uncle said before that there is no time in the underworld.

I struggled to recall the contents of some of the materials I had helped my teacher collect at that time. In Buddhism, the underworld is called the underworld, one of the three worlds, and it is the place where the soul of a person belongs after death, and there is actually a detailed description of the process of entering the underworld after death in the Buddhist scriptures.

To put it simply, it is not easy for a human soul to re-enter the three realms of reincarnation, and it first needs to go through several passes.

The first level in the process of going to the underworld after death: the ghost gate

According to legend, after the death of the person, the three souls and six spirits were taken away by the black and white impermanence of the underworld, and handed over to the bull head and horse noodles to be taken to the ghost gate---- which is also a necessary checkpoint in the ghost country. Yan Yun: "The ghost gate is closed, ten people go, and nine people return." ”

There are sixteen ghosts in front of the ghost gate, and legend has it that the king of Yama specially selected a group of evil ghosts to come to this town and mountain to check, and they are extremely harsh and strict in investigating the undead ghosts and wild ghosts with bad deeds and malignant behavior, so as not to make a fool of them. 18

Before his death, whether it was a dignitary or a common person, whoever came here must be checked to see if he has a ghost country pass --- a road guide, which 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, which reads, "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 be reincarnated and ascend to heaven."

At the same time, the road guide is stamped with three seals of "Yin Si Chenghuang and Fengdu County Government". Whoever burns it when he is buried or cremated after death will come to the underworld with his soul.

The second level of the process of going to the underworld after death: Huangquan Road

After passing the Ghost Gate, the next step is a long Huangquan Road. The soul of a person has to walk a long way to report to the underworld and pass many passes, so Huangquan Road can be a general term for these passes and distances, or it can refer to this road called Huangquan Road.

There are fiery red flowers on the Huangquan Road, which looks like a carpet paved with blood from a distance, and is also known as the "Fire Road" because of its red fire, which is also the only scenery and color on the long Huangquan Road, and people follow the guidance of this flower to the hell of the underworld.

When a person's yang life is reached, he will die, this is a normal death, and a person who dies normally must first pass the ghost gate, and after this pass, the person's soul will become a ghost.

In addition, there are many lonely souls and wild ghosts on the Huangquan Road, they are those who have not completed their yang life and died normally, they can neither go to heaven, nor can they be reincarnated, let alone go to the underworld, they can only wander on the Huangquan Road, waiting for the arrival of Yang Shou before they can report to the underworld and listen to the fate of the king of Yama.

The third level of the process of going to the underworld after death: the three-life stone

However, there is a piece of bluestone on the side of the bridge called Sansheng Stone, the words on the stone body are bright red as blood, and there are four big characters engraved on the top of the bridge "early on the other side"

Legend has it that it records each person's past life, present life and future life, the cause of the previous life, the fruit of this life, the reincarnation of fate, the origin and the extinction, all of which are heavily engraved on the three-life stone.

For thousands of years, it has witnessed the pain and joy, sorrow and joy, laughter and tears of all living beings, the debts that should be paid, the love that should be repaid, and the three lives of the stone.

The fourth level of the process of going to the underworld after death: Wangxiangtai

The Wangxiang Terrace, which is the earth platform where Meng Po and the stone are located, is in front of the bridge, not behind it. Wangxiangtai is also known as "Homesick Ridge", here, you can take the stage to look at the situation in the Yang family, so it has become a window for ghosts to look at the sun and a holy place for the living and the dead to contact their feelings.

Legend has it that after a person dies, "one day without eating the world's food, two days to cross the yin and yang realm, three days to reach Wangxiangtai, see relatives crying and mourning." ”

Before the ghost went to the underworld to report, he was very concerned about his relatives in the Yang world, although the ghost was severely urged and reprimanded, he still forcibly climbed the Wangxiang platform, and finally looked at his hometown from afar, cried loudly, and then went to the "Yin Cao Difu" with a dead heart.

It is "the ghost on the Wangxiang platform is in a hurry, looking at the eyes and tears." Wives and children sit on the side of the coffin, and relatives and friends gather in the mourning hall. ”

Wangxiangtai is said to be the place where the deceased soul said goodbye to his relatives for the last time. It is also said that the underworld Wangxiang platform is very strange to build, the top is wide and the bottom is narrow, the face is like a bow back, the back is like a bowstring flat column, except for a stone level path, the rest is all sword mountains and sword trees, very precipitous.

Standing on it, you can see the five continents and four oceans. Originally, Wangxiangtai was set up in the first hall, because Bao Lao Yan Luo was in charge of the first hall, because he was too merciful, mercy to death, repeatedly released the sun and stretched the snow, was demoted to the fifth hall, the head called the big hell and the sixteen heart of the small hell.

There is a medicine in the world called "dragon grass", which can make the dying immortal, but not the living.

The fifth level of the process of going to the underworld after death: the Lethe River

Also known as "Santu River", between Huangquan Road and Hades, the river water is blood-yellow, it is full of lonely souls and wild ghosts that cannot be reincarnated, insects and snakes are everywhere, and the fishy wind blows on the face.

In the millennium, you can see him walk across the Nai He Bridge over and over again, and drink bowls and bowls of Meng Po soup, although I hope that he will not drink Meng Po soup, but I am afraid that he will not be able to forget the suffering of thousands of years in the river; After a thousand years, if your mind is still undiminished and you can still remember the events of your past life, you can re-enter the world and find the person you loved most in your previous life.

The sixth level of the process of going to the underworld after death: Meng Po soup

Meng Po soup is also known as forgetting love water or forgetting sorrows, and once you drink it, you will forget the past and present lives. Meng Po generally distributes Meng Po soup at the head of the bridge, rather than giving soup to people on the bridge. Everyone has to walk across the Nai Ho Bridge, Meng Po has to ask if they want to drink a bowl of Meng Po soup, if they want to cross the Nai He Bridge, they have to drink Meng Po soup, if they don't drink Meng Po soup, they will cross the Nai He Bridge, and if they cross the Nai He Bridge, they will not be reincarnated.

A lifetime of love, hatred, and hatred, the ups and downs of a lifetime, all of which were forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup. The people who are concerned in this life and those who hate will be like strangers in the next life, and they will not know each other.

Everyone in the yang world has their own bowl here, and the Meng Po soup in the bowl is actually the tears shed by the living people in their lives.

The seventh level of the process of going to the underworld after death: Nai He Bridge

Among them, celestial beings, asuras, and humanity belong to the upper three realms, while beasts, evil ghosts, and hells belong to the lower three realms. As for which way to go, it is classified according to the good and evil deeds of the deceased during their lifetime. Those who have a lot of good karma are often assigned to the upper three realms, and those who have a lot of bad karma are often assigned to the lower three realms.

It should be noted here that the process of going to the underworld after death is not universal to everyone, because in Buddhism, if a practitioner has completed his merits, he will skip the process of the underworld after his death and be directly led to the Western Elysium by the Buddha. And the great evil people who do a lot of evil may also skip this process in the underworld, and will often be sent directly to hell due to karmic traction.

Thinking of this, I subconsciously looked in the direction where the six ghosts disappeared, indeed! The road is flanked by blood-red flowers that stretch as far as the eye can see, like a red carpet.

Isn't this exactly the same as the scene of Huangquan Road in the second level described!

That's weird! I don't seem to have passed the first pass, the "ghost gate", right?