How did Fengdu Ghost Town come from? Why build a ghost town in Fengdu? There are different opinions about the reasons for the formation of ghost towns, but in general, there are four points in a * * *:
The first is 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", which is said to be the ghost capital ruled by the Northern Yin Emperor, who is the seventh central god of Taoism and specializes in governing 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.
The third is the "Yan Luowang" theory in 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.
The fourth is the saying of Yin Wang Cheng Xian, which is the most widely circulated 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.