Where is the ghost town of Du Feng? Why is it called a ghost town?

Du Feng Ghost Town, also known as Ghost Town Fengdu, Fengdu Ghost Town and Ghost Town, is located in Fengdu County, Chongqing.

Fengdu is called a ghost town with a history of 1900 years. It is famous for its rich ghost culture in the underworld. Legend has it that Fengdu is controlled by Ye Yan. After death, people must report here, sum up the good and evil of previous lives, and become ghosts of the underworld. Those who commit many evils during their lifetime must go through eighteen layers of hell and cannot be reincarnated; People who do good deeds during their lifetime are reincarnated according to previous karma, so they are called ghost towns.

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Fengdu has become a legendary ghost town, and there are generally four kinds of statements:

First, the theory of Taoism. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded the "Five Menfan" religion, which absorbed a lot of witchcraft and became the later "ghost religion". In A.D. 198, his grandson Zhang Lu established the Taoist "Pingdu Rule" in Fengdu, which became the missionary center of Taoism. Later, Taoism invented a "Luofeng Mountain", saying that it was the ghost capital ruled by Emperor Beiyin, who was the seventh central god of Taoism and specialized in the underworld. Li Daoyuan, a geographer in the Northern Wei Dynasty, said that Fengdu ranked 45th among the 72 blessed places in Taoism.

Second, the ghost emperor (Tubo) said: 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, thinking that all this was dominated by ghosts and gods. Bashu tribe is mainly a frontier tribe. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Fengdu was once the capital of Bazi. With the continuous communication between Bashu and Bashu nationalities, politics, economy, culture, ideas and customs have infiltrated each other, resulting in a religious god with the same belief-Tubo. This is the first generation ghost emperor of Bashu ghost clan. The ghost emperor lived in Youdu, and Fengdu still has the ruins of Youdu.

Third, the "Yan Luowang" theory of Buddhism. "Yan Luowang" is a transliteration of Sanskrit, hoping to be the king of the underworld in ancient Indian mythology. Buddhism follows this statement and is called the devil who manages hell. Legend has it that he has eighteen judges in charge of eighteen hell. According to all classics, sounds and meanings, "Yan Luowang" is an "equal king" and he can be punished equally.

Fourth, Yin and Wang Chengxian said that this is the most popular saying in Fengdu. As early as around 270 A.D., Ge Hong, a Jin Dynasty man, said something about Yin and Wang Chengxian in The Legend of Immortals. Legend has it that in the Han Dynasty, there were two alchemists, one was Yin Changsheng, who was the great-grandfather of Queen Liu Zhao. One is Wang and the official in the middle is a doctor. Dissatisfied with the current social situation, both of them came to Fengdu to practice and died in the early years of Wei Qinglong. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, the two of them were misinformed as "the king of Yin", that is, the king of the underworld.

Later, with the constant deliberate rendering of the ruling class in previous dynasties, a more comprehensive ghost town was formed in Fengdu through the description of novels, poems, travel notes and inscriptions by literati and officialdom in previous dynasties. From fantasy to reality, it has experienced more than 2000 years of history, organically combining Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese ghost culture. Integrating Bayu culture, Central Plains culture and foreign culture; Combine the imagination of folk myths and legends with reality; Only by combining various art forms such as architecture, sculpture and painting can we form a world-famous "ghost town culture".

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