In fact, the name hell has only been transmitted to China from the West in the past 100 years.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have used to call it the underworld, to put it bluntly, whether it is the underworld, the underworld, or hell, the asura world, it all refers to the same place.

Because of cultural differences, descriptions of this place around the world are both similar and different.

In almost all ancient descriptions, in fact, the underworld has its own order, the same management system as the yang, and its own holidays. The ghosts of the underworld are not all dressed in ancient costumes, and most of them are mainly dressed in the last breath of the yang.

But the ghosts of the underworld still have their own uniforms. The underworld has its own words, which are generally incomprehensible to ordinary living people, just like an idiom, ghost words, people have human words, and ghosts naturally have ghost words. The most striking feature of the world of the underworld is that there is no sunlight, no life, and a foggy and lifeless place.

The first stop in the underworld: the Land Temple.

The deceased who has just passed away is called the living soul, after the four major decomposition of the deceased's body, the carrier of the bearer's life information energy is separated from the body after about twelve hours, which is what we say about the soul, the soul will be very painful in the process of getting out of the body, so it is best for the family not to touch his body to alleviate his pain.

In ancient times, there were land temples in every place, of course, some places were also called mountain temples, or other similar names, some of them were not visible to the naked eye of our people in the yang world, but it was real, and it gave me the feeling that it was the same as the yamen I saw on TV, with antique decorations, a brown and red desk in the middle, and the local "household registration book" on it, recording the local mountains and rivers, population, livestock, and so on.

As the saying goes, one side of the water and soil supports one side of the people, one side of the land protects the other side, and the birth and death of a soul must pass through the local land temple. Although the land is a lowly god, it is a well-known god, and everyone does not dare to rush. It is also an important messenger of communication between all walks of life in the world and the divine realm, from the transmission of expressions to the incineration of worshipping money, it is inseparable from the help of the father-in-law of the land.

When someone has reached the end of his life, the Yin soldiers will take the soul card and the approval ticket to escort the soul to the land temple to clear customs, and the land father-in-law will open the local "household register" for verification, the deceased belongs to the local clan, and he is indeed dying, and one by one to verify that there is no religious belief, then the local land seal is stamped on the approval ticket, and the passage to the underworld.

There are two passages on both sides of the Land Gonggong God Case, one is the main road directly to the Western Elysium, and the other is the Huangquan Road to the Netherworld. One pass is bright, the other is pitch black.

The Yin soldiers pressed the ghosts and turned into the Yin Wind and stepped on the Huangquan Road.

The second stop in the underworld: Huangquan Road.

I often hear people say that Huangquan Road is not easy to walk, and there are no people old and old on Huangquan Road.

Indeed it is. Looking up on Huangquan Road, you can't see the sun, moon and stars, looking down, you can't see the dust of the land, looking forward, you can't see Yangguan Road, looking back, you can't see relatives and friends.

Some people will ask, the family of the deceased burned paper cows, paper horses, and paper carts for the deceased, why not use these tools on the road?

I don't know if the soul of the dead can't be called a ghost at this time, and only when you enter the city can you be called a real ghost.

The disciples of the regular hall understand even better, sometimes they buy people to grab their souls, and they all rob their souls on this Huangquan Road, because they have not yet entered the capital city, and everything is still going to turn around.

In today's terms, Huangquan Road can be regarded as an accident-prone area. Now I think about the first time I walked Huangquan Road, my heart is still so nervous, so sour, thinking of the feelings of my deceased relatives when I walked Huangquan Road, but I can't see off my children and grandchildren with filial piety, and tears are in the corners of my eyes. The road to Huangquan was rugged and bumpy, some of the souls of all walks of life cried and refused to go, some were full of rhetoric to please the Yin soldiers, and some went straight all the way in a daze......

People's sense of survival is the strongest, but how many people can return to their souls on this Huangquan Road? No matter how much the soul pleaded and tried all his best to escape, he couldn't break free from the chain of death in the hands of the Yin soldiers, and went all the way back.

No matter how tired the soul is, the ghost will not let you rest and delay the trip, you must hurry out of this Huangquan Road as soon as possible, joke that there is no inn on Huangquan Road, no matter how much money there is in the Yangjian on Huangquan Road, it is also in vain, the destination is one place, the underworld --- the capital city.

The third stop in the underworld: Wangxiangtai.

Walked out of Huangquan Road and went to Wangxiangtai. As the old saying goes, once you arrive at Wangxiangtai, you can't come back to your hometown from afar. A stone platform is high, emitting bursts of dark light, sitting and lying on the road to turn around, you can look back on it, write three red characters to look at the hometown.

When I walked to the Wangxiang Terrace, there was almost no possibility of resurrection, and the body of the yang world was almost at the time when the gold was put into the cabinet for burial.

This Wangxiang Terrace is made by the Bodhisattva Guanyin, who has no great compassion in the south, sympathizing with all sentient beings and not wanting to die, and thinking about the true feelings of their relatives at home. Let the soul of the deceased stand on the lookout platform to take a last look at his hometown and his relatives.

Standing on the lookout platform, you can see Yangshi's house, see relatives and friends, and see your dead body lying there. People who have not experienced life and death do not understand this heart-rending pain, and advise you to be more tolerant and kind to your family and friends.

Don't wait until the day when you regret it, it's too late.

On this lookout platform, I don't know how many tears of sadness and remorse are carried.

The fourth stop in the underworld: Vicious Dog Ridge.

After getting off the lookout platform and walking all the way, I suddenly heard a burst of dog barking, which became louder and louder, and the people who listened to it became more and more creepy. Knowledgeable friends should know that dogs and chickens are two very important mediums of communication between the yang and the underworld, the dog can see the soul of the underworld barking, and the golden rooster announces that the ghost must avoid the sunlight so as not to scatter the soul.

At the same time, careful observation friends can see that the old tooth dog will never sleep on the hot kang head, and the golden rooster will never sleep on its stomach. All living beings have their own laws and laws.

I saw groups of vicious dogs, with fierce eyes, full of steel teeth, and fur as hard as steel wire, biting madly at all souls, and refusing to let go without tearing off their legs and feet.

Souls from all walks of life tried their best to escape the iron mouth and steel teeth of this vicious dog, some were bitten off their legs, some were torn off their feet, some became one-armed, and some became severed hands.

It is not so easy for people to change from souls to ghosts, and they also have to go through these three calamities and nine tribulations. It's not easy to be a person, and it's not so easy to become a ghost.

Just thinking about this in my heart, a group of vicious dogs also bit us on the clouds, and when I saw this scene, I realized that the dry food and dog-beating sticks that the world's gold earned for the corpse's palms when they were buried were prepared for crossing this vicious dog ridge.

However, the dog lover who was born is a dog lover who walks on the ground like walking on the ground and moving forward all the way; The year of birth belongs to the dog, harming the dog, killing the dog, eating the dog, and the person who crosses this vicious dog ridge is afraid that the soul will be scattered.

When the butcher who killed the dog in the three rooms of the Yang world arrived here, I am afraid that he would also taste the pain of being slaughtered and divided. Again, I would like to remind everyone that when you die at home, you must not forget this dry food for dogs! Jokes, not to mention whether there is a rabies vaccine in the underworld, and it is not easy to become a ghost without 'dog dry food!'

The Vicious Dog Ridge is full of stumps and broken bodies, stained and bloody. There are very few who can live through the Vicious Dog Ridge with their whole body.

The fifth station in the underworld: Jinji Mountain.

Jinji Peak, two ridges, straight peaks have to climb over little by little, for example, the image is to climb from the back of the chicken to the comb of the chicken, only to climb over this Jinji Mountain to reach the capital city.

This Vicious Dog Ridge and Jinji Mountain are the two levels that all souls must pass, and only after passing these two levels can they be qualified to serve as ghosts. As soon as you enter Jinji Mountain, a group of roosters pounce on you, the iron beak and the vulture's mouth are more than equal, and you have to blind the eyes of the soul at a time, and the inciting wings make you unable to open your eyes, the sharp claws are more like the soul hook in the hands of the big black master, a claw can make you open the flesh, go deep into the internal organs, and don't catch your heart and liver is not over.

You can think about what kind of pain it is like when you kill chickens in the world, and now that the soul is occupied in the flock, you must be able to understand what it feels like to be killed at this time.

Only then did I think of the world, when the corpse was buried, the disk on the chest of the corpse contained five grains and grains, which were also prepared for crossing Jinji Mountain. It can be seen that the rules left by our ancestors are all internal. Thinking about it from another angle, who would rather believe it than not believe it, who wants their deceased relatives and friends to let the chickens chatter.

The sixth stop in the underworld: Wild Ghost's Village.

Continuing forward, suddenly there was a sea of people, colorful flags fluttering, as if some party was being held, there were Yangge twisting, there were dragon and lion dances, and it was very lively.

Arrived at the sixth station of the underworld, the village of wild ghosts. In fact, on the surface, those lively scenes are all illusions, all of which are transformed by the souls who have passed the Vicious Dog Ridge and Jinji Mountain, and they can't move forward because of their incomplete limbs, so they have to stay and gather here, and wait for the sound spirits who are confused by the excitement to arrive, and take the opportunity to start, find new limbs and replace them on their bodies so that they can continue to go to the underworld.

I saw that those sound souls who were bewitched could not break free from these clutches at all, and there were bursts of painful wails, flesh and blood blurred, and heartbreaking. At this time, he saw that there were some sound souls in the lower realm who could pass the test unharmed, and he didn't know why, so he asked the boy, and the boy replied that it was all the relatives of the Yang world who burned the road in front of the dead 3 catties and 6 taels of paper money, and the sound spirit body took this road money to pass the customs smoothly.

After that, you will know in your heart that money can make the ghost grind.

The seventh station of the underworld: the Temple of Ecstasy.

Continue forward, there is a pavilion in front, there is a deep well in the pavilion is bubbling out of the boiling spring, this is the seventh station of the underworld, the Hall of Lost Souls, after here, you will arrive at the capital city of the underworld.

Mortals must remember that when they go to the underworld, they must not meddle in things, look around, talk to others, and eat and drink indiscriminately, otherwise the immortal body will be damaged and it will be difficult to return to the yang.

The next pavilion is the Ecstasy Palace, and the spring water that comes out is the Ecstasy Water, and the souls who have passed the first few passes must drink this Ecstasy Water when they arrive here, so that they can speak the truth, truthfully report all kinds of crimes in the yang world, and wait for the interrogation of the Ten Palaces of the Yama King.

At the same time, after drinking ecstasy water, even the next session of Daluo Immortal, it will be difficult to return to the sun. Only those who are at ease become ghosts, waiting to be released. Seeing the souls of this place in the past, the resentment in his heart has already been halved, and one by one they lined up to drink water in an orderly manner and went to the capital city.

A word to wake me up in my dream, if there is also this spring water in the yang world of the end of the Dharma era, wouldn't it be peaceful and prosperous, and the country and the people will be safe.

All the way is cloudy, and finally I see a city gate in front of me, there is a couplet, the previous couplet: people and ghosts, ghosts and people, people and ghosts have different paths; The next couplet: Yin and Yang, Yang and Yin, Yin and Yang are forever separated; There is no horizontal batch of black plaques, and the three gold lacquer characters of the capital city are hung in the center of the city.

The eighth station of the underworld: the city of Xudu.

After walking out of the Hall of Lost Souls, he truly entered the eighth station of the underworld, the capital of the underworld. The city gate of the capital city gives me the feeling that it is an extremely solemn administrative unit that needs to be seen. It's so high up and so solemn. 163TXT

It's true that you can't see the stars, the sun and the moon when you look up, and you can't see the dust of the land when you look down. Entering the capital city, there are two gates inside, and between the second gate and the first gate, there are two lights floating high in the air, but they do not move.

One is bright, the other is dim and dark. The dark lamp walked down and entered the second door carved out of jade. As soon as you enter the two gates, you will see 10 city gates lined up side by side, one to ten halls of Hades at a time.

The entrance of each hall is guarded by Yin soldiers. The Yin soldiers are not dressed in outright ancient costumes, but the uniforms worn on the upper body are ancient styles. The Yin soldiers of the Netherworld are also reincarnated and replaced.

In modern times, many dead people can also serve as Yin soldiers and ghosts. There are Yin soldiers guarding the door of each hall, some carefully check the approval tickets in the hands of the soul, and some check the height and size of the soul head.

Each of them is an orderly work, not inferior to the administrative departments of the world, and there are no more than that, and the ghosts here are all in public law, clear as water and as clear as a mirror. The ghosts who arrived here also knew in their hearts that they had died, and they were in a lot of peace, and they lined up in order to wait for the judgment of the king of Hades in each hall.

The ninth station of the underworld: the eighteen layers of hell

People who believe in Buddhism, study Buddhism, and worship Buddha all know that the Buddhist scriptures talk about the eighteen layers of hell, and the eighteen layers of hell I saw through the yin are exactly the same as those described in the Buddhist scriptures, the only difference is that the punishments on each hell are more severe than the description, to be real, that painful feeling, the miserable scene can only be experienced by those who have seen it with their own eyes.

The eighteenth layer of hell is a separate city gate, which is not in the arrangement of the ten halls of Hades, and has a separate one of its own.

However, the ten halls of Hades and the eighteen layers of hell are all connected.

All the souls began to interrogate from a hall, and the punishment tools such as the mirror of the world, the red iron pillar, and the grinding platform mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures are real, and the Yin soldiers in charge of these torture tools are really blue-faced fangs, and they are scared half to death before they get to the torture tools.

After the average soul passes the review of the first hall, the time of the three rooms of the Yang World should also be the first seven of the dead. At this time, the king of Hades will issue a new approval ticket and hand it over to the Yin soldiers, and all souls will bring the seven souls of the lock to the immortals, and carry out the first seven crimes of the ghost to visit relatives and friends.

If there is a ghost who delays the hour and refuses to return to the underworld, then the immortal lock will begin to detain the soul of the soul and perform the great method of destroying the soul, so that the soul that refuses to return to the underworld will not even be qualified to be a ghost.

After the first seven days, he returned to the underworld to continue his interrogation.

One hall after another, one hall after another, those who have grievances must return your innocence, and those who give bribes and gifts and do evil things must be severely punished. Each hall is hung high as a mirror, and the people are the masters, where the wicked and the good will get the results they deserve. At the same time, the often said Vain Death City, Yin Spirit City, and so on are all cities within cities of the eighteen hells.

As long as there are people who commit such crimes, no one can escape.

Here I will mainly introduce a hellish punishment, the pool of blood. Because the evil retribution to be punished by this bloody pool of hell is really more and more closely related to the current era of the end of the law.

Friends who understand the five elements of yin and yang, Qimen Dunjia, or friends who have read the yellow calendar can find that in this part of the day, they will see the auspicious day for bathing. In ancient times, there was also a time limit for bathing, and even haircuts, washing clothes, and going out of the palace and toilets were all said.

This blood pool hell is about the irrational use of water resources, the waste of water resources, especially the female friends who casually wash the blood of menstruation regardless of fasting days, and dump sewage indiscriminately before and after childbirth to collide with the local gods, all of which are punished by this blood pool hell.

You have to drink the sewage that you have squandered in the sun before you can be reincarnated. That's why an old ox drinking dirty water is burned after the death of the dead woman.

Cherish and care for water resources. There are big and small things in life, every minute and every second. As the saying goes, everything contains Buddhist principles, and there are causes and conditions everywhere.

Seeing the souls of those who drank dirty water and blood water in the blood pool, the feeling of unbearable smell and hard to swallow can only be known by personal experience. Never know repentance until the punishment comes!

The tenth station of the underworld: the Offering Pavilion.

Everyone will wonder in their hearts whether the living people in the Yang world can receive paper money, clothes, and offerings to the dead. The answer is that as long as you burn paper money, burn clothes, and make offerings correctly and in the same way, then the dead can be obtained.

This middle offering pavilion is similar to our post office in the underworld, which is responsible for delivering offerings to the dead in the underworld.

In fact, the ancestors left rules, saying that after death, people should burn for seven days, burn for 100 days, burn anniversaries, etc., these rules are reasonable, generally seven days, 100 days, and anniversaries The ghosts of the underworld are all in each hall when they are audited, like burning five flowers during the fifth and seventh days, which is for the Lord of Yama of the five halls to see, hoping that the Lord of Yama will see the flowers, and the flowers can make the dead pass smoothly.

In fact, all the laws and regulations of the underworld are fair, just and open, and this custom has been continued in the yang world, which contains the sincere love and filial piety of the offering.

But it's a pity that filial piety touches the sky, how many true filial sons are there in the end of the law era? If a lamb knows how to kneel and lick its mother's milk, how much more will I be a human being in this life?

It is common to make offerings to cattle and sheep spirits, who see the dead to their mouths. When people are alive, they should be filial to their parents, and don't wait until it's too late for their parents to be gone!

The distribution in this offering pavilion is also very clear, and it is classified according to the address of the Yin Mansion and the different qualities of the offerings, and it will be delivered to the soul in a timely and accurate manner.

At this time, the soul can already begin to receive offerings from the yang world.

I was watching the Yin Soldier Gate distribute the offerings of the Yang in the Offering Pavilion, and it was noted that the uniforms worn by different Yin soldiers in the Netherworld were also different.

Suddenly, I saw some golden light appear on some offerings, so I asked the python family Daxian what was the reason for this, and the great immortal replied that these offerings with golden light are all with Buddhist magnetic field, Taoist magnetic field, and immortal magnetic field, all because of the filial piety descendants in the regular temples, dojos, and halls in the yang world through the guidance of the master to incinerate offerings, these offerings with magnetic fields will be given priority to the hands of the dead soul when they reach the underworld.

Speaking of this, I knew in my heart that there was also an "express mail" in the underworld.

The eleventh stop in the underworld: Ghost Castle.

Passing by the Offering Pavilion, I saw that it was still early. Then he asked the boy where the souls who had no sin and did not need to go down to the eighteen layers of hell had gone after entering the examination of the Ten Halls of Hades.

The boy replied that after the review of the Ten Halls of Hades, all souls can be called ghosts.

The guilty go down to the eighteenth layer of hell to be punished, and the innocent begin to live their own ghost life according to the records in the book of life and death, and begin to guard their ghost life, and when they finish their ghost life, they begin to wait for the normal six realms of reincarnation. After the soul is transformed into a ghost, the ghost has the so-called supernatural power compared to the living people in the Yang world, but in fact, this supernatural power is relative. For ghosts, the most basic breathing function of the living in the Yang world is also supernatural powers. The ghosts who normally keep the ghost life live here

The eleventh station in the underworld, the Ghost Fortress.

The ghosts in the Ghost Castle also have their own laws and regulations, and they have their own New Year's holidays, and most of the ghosts that the living people in the Yang World collide with are the ghosts in the Ghost Castle, and only a very few of them collide with the lonely ghosts.

The ghosts in the Ghost Castle can return to the yang world on certain days and under certain circumstances, but these ghosts must strictly abide by the scope and requirements of their own paths, when they can manifest, when they can go home, when they can possess their bodies, and when they can accept offerings.

As long as they do not abide by the law and discipline, they will be gathered in front of the Lord of the Ten Palaces and sent to the eighteenth layer of hell. After the boy spoke, many mysteries had been solved in his heart.

I don't know if you, who are reading the article now, understand the words of the boy! Have you solved the mystery in your mind?

Continue to move forward, to the fifth hall, saw the white jade hall door, the door of the lotus flower appeared, bursts of Tibetan incense, all kinds of auspicious, the couplet at the door of the five halls, the underworld, ten halls and five halls;

Eighteen hells, a hundred punishments are based on the right way. In the hall of the five halls of the king of Hades, there was a lot of air conditioning. What needs to be told here is that if there is a chance to pass the yin in the future, you must not eat the things of the underworld casually, otherwise it will be difficult to return the yang, even if you return the yang, you will be seriously ill.

Reincarnation is divided into 10 classes, and it is written today in the hope of helping those in need. The first class of people is the master of becoming a Buddha, the second class of people, the official seal of the Houmen, the third class of people, the court and the horse, the fourth class of people, the minister of civil and military affairs, the fifth class of people, the glory and wealth, the sixth class, the street is called poor, the seventh class of people, the donkey becomes a horse, the eighth class of people, the beasts and birds, the ninth class of people, the pigs and dogs of the next world, the tenth class, the fish, turtles and shrimps.

The twelfth station of the underworld: Lotus Terrace.

Out of the five halls of the Hades Palace, I saw a burst of great light in front of me, the light emitted a great light but not dazzling, in the strong light I saw a lotus platform, gold as the main, seven colors as a supplement, giving people endless joy, endless freedom. Regardless of knowing in your heart, this must be the throne lotus platform where the King of Jizo preached in hell.

The Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth is the spring breeze of the cold hell, giving people bursts of warmth. King Jizo Bodhisattva made a vow: Hell is not empty, and he will not become a Buddha. Spirits from all walks of life have been blessed by the Jizo King Bodhisattva and feel the illumination of the Dharma, so as long as they are truly good and let go of their desires, even if they become ghosts, they can still be reborn in the West.

After seeing the ghosts with incomplete limbs and hideous faces, after receiving the blessing of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, they were really reborn in the Western Elysium, turned into lotus flowers and flew out of hell and ascended to the heavenly realm.

only sigh, although the rain is wide, it does not moisten the grass without roots; Although the Dharma is extensive, it does not reach those who have no fate!

Keep moving forward.

Came to the second gate of the capital city mentioned above. Again, I saw a bright light, a dark light. At this time, I knew that all the way was a dark light road and a hell road.

Now that I want to return to the soul of the sun, I am about to embark on this bright light road. The boy hurriedly nodded in agreement, this bright light road is the road of reincarnation, the road of reincarnation. If a disciple who has passed through the yin has embarked on the path of reincarnation, he will no longer be able to return the yang.

The thirteenth station of the underworld: the Cliff of Resurrection.

Arrived at the Soul Cliff, there is a bridge on the edge of the cliff, there are 4 bridge-protecting beasts on the bridge, located on both sides, and the gold and silver bridges are written on the boundary monument stone. There is an old woman on the bridge who holds tea and drinks it for the ghosts of the past, this old woman is the god of Meng Po, and this tea is Meng Po soup, and after drinking this soup, she forgets the grievances and hatreds of her previous life, right and wrong, and is reincarnated everywhere.

On the other side of the Jinyin Bridge are six circles that emit various colors of light, which are the six reincarnations, and which one is reincarnated will jump into which one. Disciples who have passed through the yin must not embark on the road of reincarnation, they must go straight to the Soul Restoration Cliff, the side of the Soul Restoration Cliff, the sun is so warm!

In fact, there are many books that describe the underworld in ancient times, and even there is no shortage of similar descriptions in Tang and Song poems.