Fengdu ghost town

Fengdu ghost city, formerly known as Fengdu ghost city, is also known as "Youdu", "ghost country Kyoto" and "hometown of Chinese Divine Comedy". It was also known as "bazibaidu" in the spring and Autumn period. It is an ancient city with a history of nearly 2000 years. It is famous for all kinds of buildings and shapes of the underworld. It is composed of the famous mountain scenic spot of the ghost city and the stone carving scenic spot of the ghost king. In the city, there are many buildings representing the underworld, such as the hengha temple, the emperor's hall, the Naihe Bridge, the huangquan Road, the wangxiangtai, and the Yaowang hall.

Fengdu ghost town

Fengdu ghost town, formerly known as Fengdu ghost town, was called "bazibaidu" in ancient times. It was established in the second year of Yongyuan reign of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a history of nearly 2000 years

Located on the North Bank of the Yangtze River in Fengdu County, the lower reaches of Chongqing, it is a tourist attraction for Yangtze River cruise passengers. Fengdu ghost town is also known as "Youdu" and "ghost country Kyoto"

”"The land of Chinese Divine Comedy". The ghost city is famous for its buildings and shapes. In the ghost city, there are many buildings that show the underworld, such as hengha temple, Tianzi hall, Naihe bridge, huangquan Road, wangxiangtai, Yaowang hall, etc.

Fengdu ghost town, one of the first batch of AAAA tourist areas in China, is a famous historical and cultural city originated in the Han Dynasty. It is said to be "the capital of ghost country" and "the hell of hell" and has become the destination of the dead. It is not only a ghost town in legend, but also a treasure house of folk culture and art integrating Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. It is one of the most famous cultural landscapes on the golden tourism line of the Yangtze River.

Fengdu ghost town scenic spot is divided into ghost town famous mountain scenic spot and ghost King stone carving scenic spot

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In December 2015, the famous mountain scenic spot of ghost town was selected as one of the 30 Best New Tourism Landscapes in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Cause of formation

One is Taoism. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded "wudoumi" religion, which absorbed a lot of witchcraft and became the later "ghost religion". In 198 A.D., his grandson Zhang Lu set up "pingduzhi" in Fengdu, which became the missionary center of Taoism. Later, Taoism also called it "Luofeng mountain", saying that it was the ghost capital ruled by the great emperor Beiyin, who was the seventh level central God of Taoism and was in charge of hell. Li Daoyuan, a geographer of the Northern Wei Dynasty, named Fengdu as the 45th of the 72 blessed places of Taoism in his notes to the water classic.

The second is the theory of the ghost Emperor (TU Bo): when human society was still in the ancient times, due to the underdeveloped science, it was unable to make a correct explanation when encountering some natural phenomena, believing that all these were dominated by ghosts and gods. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Fengdu was once the capital of Bazi. With the mutual penetration of politics, economy, culture, ideology and customs, a common religious God, Tu Bo, came into being, which was the first generation of ghost emperor. The ghost emperor lived in Youdu, and Fengdu still has "Youdu" relics.

The third is the Buddhist theory of "King Yama". "King Yama" is originally a transliteration of Sanskrit. It was originally the king of the underworld in ancient Indian mythology. Buddhism follows this saying and calls it the devil of hell. It is said that he had 18 judges in charge of 18 hells. According to the Yinyi of all scriptures, "King Yama" is the "king of equality", who can treat crimes equally.

The fourth is the theory of yin and Wang Chengxian, which is the most popular one in Fengdu. As early as around 270 A.D., Ge Hong of Jin Dynasty said Yin and Wang Chengxian in his biography of immortals. It is said that in the Han Dynasty, there were two alchemists, one named Yin Changsheng, who was the great grandfather of empress Liu Zhao, and the other named Wang Fangping, who was an official in the middle of the court. Because they were dissatisfied with the social situation, Shuangshuang first went to Fengdu for cultivation, and in the early years of Wei Qinglong, they became immortals. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, they were falsely said to be the "king of Yin", that is, the king of the underworld.

In addition, the successive ruling class continued to deliberately exaggerate, and the literati and officials described it through novels, poems, travel notes and inscriptions, such as journey to the west, strange tales of Liaozhai, complete biography of Shuoyue, Western records and so on. Therefore, a more comprehensive ghost city was formed in Fengdu. It has gone through more than 2000 years of history from illusory to real. It has organically combined Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese ghost culture; it has combined the imagination of folk myths and legends with reality; it has combined architecture, sculpture, painting and other art forms to form the world-famous "ghost city culture".

Scenic spot information

Location of ghost town

Fengdu ghost town is located in the southeast edge of Sichuan Basin, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the hometown of Qili

. It is an ancient city with mountains and rivers. It was called "bazibeidu" in the spring and Autumn period. It is the first scenic spot to visit the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River from Chongqing.

"Ghost city", as the name suggests, must be haunted by ghosts, the extreme terror. From Chongqing down the Yangtze River, Fengdu ghost town is hidden in the mountains on the bank, adding a mysterious and gloomy feeling

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Fengdu ghost town is known as "the capital of ghost country" and "the hell of hell"

. According to the records of Du Ren Qu in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Fengdu is located by the Qinghe River of six days. There are three palaces and nine palaces. The palaces and Louguan are as noble as the heaven. The ghost emperor sits here to unify hundreds of millions of ghosts and gods. It is the legendary destination of the dead. It is a treasure house of folk culture and art integrating Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It is known as "the hometown of Chinese Divine Comedy" and "the capital of human soul"

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It is said that this is the place where the soul ends after death

. "Ghost city" is Fengdu, a famous mountain with many temples. In the vast hell, the gods and ghosts occupy every temple. They perform their duties and govern the legendary ghost world with severe punishment and strict laws.

Fengdu ghost town has a history of more than 2000 years, and has always been regarded as the destination of the dead.

Original name

Fengdu, a famous cultural city since ancient times, is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China. It has been known all over the world for its rich ghost culture.

Fengdu, the ghost city, with its long history, unique cultural connotation, magical legend, beautiful scenery, irreplaceable ornamental value, rare research carrier and unique source of ghost culture, shows the mysterious oriental Shenshao to Chinese and foreign tourists. Fengdu "ghost city" is the "hell" built by people's imagination. People have built a series of hell institutions such as "hell Palace", "ghost gate", "Yin and Yang world" and "Eighteen layers of hell" with the legal mechanism similar to the human world. The images of ghosts and gods at each level are various and extraordinary

. The instruments of torture are terrifying

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cultural antecedents

Fengdu, a famous cultural city since ancient times, is a famous historical and cultural town with Chinese characteristics. It used to be a small town, where there are many legends of ghosts and gods.

According to Fengdu county annals and Shenxian Zhuan by Gehong of Jin Dynasty, it is said that Wang Fangping and Yin Changsheng of Han Dynasty once cultivated immortals in Pingdu mountain, so Taoists set up a Heavenly Master in this mountain, and listed it as one of the "thirty-six caves and seventy-two blessed places". Later generations attached "Yin, Wang" as "Yin Wang" (the king of the underworld), the residence is "ghost city".

Pingdushan also gradually became the "Yin capital". Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "laugh at the world's top officials, sink into the soul of the North Fengdu", which makes the ghost city more famous. The novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties are more mysterious and grotesque. The ghost town imitates the justice system of the sun, and creates a "hell" with strict hierarchy, which integrates the functions of arrest, custody, trial, judgment and enlightenment, punishing the criminals who committed crimes in their lifetime. Although the ghost of Yama judge is only a false legend, its social function of punishing evil and promoting good is praised by people.

Main attractions

Fengdu ghost town scenic spot is divided into ghost town famous mountain scenic spot and ghost King stone carving scenic spot

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Famous scenic spots include Naihe bridge, Guimen pass, the 18th floor hell, hengha temple, Baoen hall, wangxiangtai and so on. Each scenic spot interprets the essence of ghost town folk culture of "punishing evil and promoting good". Among them, the statues of "Yin Cao Di Fu" simulate human lawsuits, courts, prisons, etc. with peculiar design and realistic expression, which mainly reflect the Chinese concept of God and ghost, heaven and hell. On the famous mountains, there are inscriptions of Su Shi, Lu You, Fan Chengda and other celebrities

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Fengdu ghost town has unique scenic spots and rich connotations. There are national key scenic spots, Three Gorges scenic spots, famous mountains, the largest dynamic cultural landscape of ghosts and gods in China, ghost state temple, Shuanggui mountain, a National Forest Park, the world's largest stone carvings of ghosts and kings, the largest number of Han Tombs in China, the thrilling Longhe River, and Siping low altitude forest park for leisure and vacation.

The main landscapes are: Fengdu mountain, Shuanggui mountain, "ghost Palace" and "Yinsi Street" It is the largest cultural and cultural landscape of ghosts and gods in China, and also the most spectacular dynamic and cultural landscape in Southwest China. There are also Huinan Han tombs, which are rare in China because of their spectacular buildings, large density, long span of time and high cultural value. There are Shuren Dagui stone carvings under construction, Siping forest park at low altitude (380-520 meters above sea level), and Sanfu primitive forest park Forest farm, Longhe scenic area (cave, drifting) and other natural landscape.

The famous mountain scenic spot has green trees, exquisite architecture, drum and morning bell, river and Mountain vein; the morning glow and evening glow, intoxicating scenery, numerous temples and statues, pavilions and pavilions standing close to the mountain; the famous poets are elegant, and the inscriptions are meaningful. The main scenic spots are the largest dynamic cultural landscape of folk culture in China, ghost country palace, "Yin Cao Di"

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