Which city in Sichuan does the ghost refer to? Not superstitious!

Fengdu County is located in the southeast edge of Sichuan Basin and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The county covers an area of 29 10 square kilometers with a total population of 740,000. Fengdu is an ancient city surrounded by mountains and rivers. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called "Bazi Biedu". In the second year of Yongyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a separate county was set up from Zhi Zhi County, named "Fengdu County", with a history of 1900 years.

Fengdu, a famous cultural city since ancient times, is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China. It is famous for its rich ghost culture in the underworld. There are many legends of ghosts and gods circulating here. Many famous Chinese and foreign literary works, such as The Journey to the West, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Yue Biography and Zhong Kui Biography, vividly describe the "ghost town" with rich capital, which is quite legendary.

The main landscapes in Fengdu County are: Fengdu Famous Mountain, Shuanggui Mountain, Ghost Palace and Yin Si Street, which is the largest cultural and humanistic landscape of ghosts and gods in China and the most spectacular dynamic cultural landscape in Southwest China. There are also strange and spectacular buildings with high density, long time span and high cultural value, which are rare in the South Han Group. There are stone carvings of trees and ghosts under construction, Siping Forest Park at low altitude (380~520 meters above sea level), Sanfu Primitive Forest Farm, Longhe Scenic Area (caves, drifting) and other natural landscapes.

Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the famous mountains in Fengdu County have been called "ghost towns". Since then, Fengdu, a small county town on the north bank of the Yangtze River, has become famous all over the world with its mysterious appearance and numerous legends, and has become a scenic spot full of China cultural connotations on the Yangtze River Golden Tourism Line, attracting people to explore. Celebrities and poets of past dynasties moved their feathers, waded through mountains and recited poems, leaving behind layers of footprints and heavy history and culture in the "ghost town".

Traveling in Fengdu "ghost town", the tour guide will definitely introduce two people to you, because they have played an important role in many legends calling Fengdu "ghost town".

Yin Changsheng and Wang are these two people. According to legend, since the Han Dynasty, they have cultivated immortals in Pingdu Mountain in the northeast corner of Fengdu County, which is today's famous mountain, soaring in the daytime. In the Tang Dynasty, some people mistakenly linked the surnames Yin and Wang together, and became the "Yin King", and then misrepresented it as the "Pluto", so Fengdu became the "underworld".

Laugh at the world's scholars and sink into the north. This is a poem left by the poet Li Bai after visiting the famous mountain "Ghost Town" in Fengdu. Today, Li Bai's poems have become famous couplets of Fengdu's famous "ghost town". Show people in the world a truth of life and death, coming and going.

The famous mountains and forests in Fengdu are picturesque and quiet. Among the green trees shaded by ancient trees, the stone paths turn back and the temples overlap. With rich imagination and extravagant hopes, people of all dynasties built many scenic spots such as Yin and Yang Division, Naihe Bridge, eighteen layers of hell and so on above the famous mountains. According to the theories of Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, they created a large number of images of people, ghosts and gods, and at the same time moved the original institutions and facilities in the world to the underworld one by one, and built a complete and huge "government of the underworld" in their own imagination. Give full play to the function of the "government of the underworld", pin people's unfulfilled wishes and ideals on the dead, pin all kinds of grievances on the underworld, punish evil and promote good with their own ideal ghosts and gods, and make ideal ghosts and gods become the spiritual pillar of people's survival. Because in their hearts, people who believe in good and evil have karma and reincarnation.

There are many superstitions in traditional China. It is said that after death, people will always report to Fengdu "Ghost Town" on the north bank of the Yangtze River, where they will be tried by Yama right, judge the merits and demerits, and arrange the afterlife. These wandering souls arrived in Fengdu "Ghost Town" with "Road Guide" (passport) stamped with "Yin Si", "Town God" and "Fengdu County Government" and did not dare to delay, otherwise they would become lonely souls and wild ghosts if they came late, and there would never be peace.

Naihe Bridge is a ghost town of Fengdu, which contains the meaning of China traditional culture.

It is located in front of the famous temple in Fengdu and consists of three stone arch bridges with the same size and shape. The bridge deck is narrow, paved with bluestones and slightly curved, and only one person can walk at a time. Flowers are carved on the stone fences on both sides of the bridge, and there is a pond under the bridge. The cards at the bridge head are guarded by ghosts of the underworld and night gods day and night.

According to folklore, Naihe Bridge is the only way to the underworld after death. If people are virtuous and do good when they are alive, then there are gods to bless them to cross the bridge safely; If people don't behave well when they are alive, then the dead will break into the river of blood under the bridge and be bitten by copper snakes and iron dogs in the pool. The book Investigation of Fengdu Religious Customs has described this:

"The bridge is divided into three layers (or three layers), and the ghosts of good people can safely cross the upper bridge; Ghosts of those who have both good and evil can cross the bridge; The soul of the wicked crosses the bridge. " When the wicked cross the bridge, they will be stopped by the spectre guarding the bridge and pushed into the blood river under the bridge, where the waves are rolling, the blood is pouring, the wind is cold and the bones are everywhere.

Many tourists who come to Fengdu's famous "ghost town" like to walk across the bridge smoothly. I believe that crossing this bridge can avoid the pain of crossing the Naihe Bridge after death. So, before they cross the bridge, they burn incense and paper, give money and things, and may God bless them. The monks and nuns in the temple are even more resourceful, deliberately splashing tung oil on the bridge deck of Qingshiqiao, making it difficult for pilgrims to cross the bridge, often slipping and being scared. In this way, Naihe Bridge has more mythical colors.

Naihe Bridge is a rare monument in the famous "ghost town", which was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 500 years. Naihe is the river name of hell in Buddhism. The purpose of making Naiheqiao into a story is to educate the living to do more good deeds, accumulate virtue and do good deeds, benefit mankind, and let them be reborn in the afterlife.

The ancient people's thought of karma has long been insufficient, but Fengdu "ghost town", as a scenic spot and religious relic, is irreplaceable by other temples. If you travel to Fengdu, you might as well go to the famous mountain "ghost town" and take a walk on Naihe Bridge.