Why call Fengdu a ghost town? Why is Fengdu called a ghost town

Fengdu, a famous cultural city since ancient times, is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China. There are many legends of ghosts and gods circulating here, and many Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces such as "Journey to the West", "Strange Tales of Liao Zhai", "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", "The Biography of Zhong Kui" and many other Chinese and foreign literary masterpieces have vivid descriptions of the "ghost city" Fengdu, which is quite legendary.

Ghost culture originated there and developed.

Fengdu is called a ghost city is said to be yin and Wang Chengxian. According to the records of Fengdu County, according to legend, the Han Dynasty Taoist believers Wang Fangping, Yin Changsheng cultivated into immortals in the famous mountain, set up the heavenly master rule here, and later became one of the 36 caves of Taoism and 72 blessed places, and the religious believers attached the surnames of the legendary Yin King and the two people to become the king of the underworld, and since then it has been passed down as the ghost capital.

In addition to the bizarre legend, the name of "ghost town" is not unrelated to the Sui Dynasty's change to "Fengdu", and the pronunciation of "Xudu" in Taoist hell is not unrelated. After nearly 2,000 years of mistakes, a ghost city full of magic in Fengdu has grown up with flesh and blood.

The value and significance of the legend of Fengdu's "ghost town".

The "ghost town" of Fengdu has a history of more than 2,000 years from myths and legends to successive construction in kind. In the long course of history, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese gods and ghosts have been organically combined, Bayu culture, Central Plains culture and foreign culture have been organically combined, and folk myths and legends, imagination and real life have been organically combined.

The organic combination of architecture, sculpture, painting and other art forms has formed a unique ghost town culture, which has become a typical representative of broad and profound folk culture, and its practical value cannot be underestimated.

Accompanied by the legend of "ghost town", local merchants have created many special products such as ghost face masks, evil umbrellas, evil treasure umbrellas, Meng Po ecstasy tea, Xianjia tofu milk, and spicy chicken nuggets in ghost towns, which have brought good economic benefits. In particular, the continuation of the ghost town temple fair has promoted economic development.

"Ghost City" brings together all kinds of architecture, sculpture and painting works since the Tang Dynasty, concentrates on the rich oriental ghost and god culture, and shows the myths and legends of the underworld and the eighteen-story hell in front of people through the form of national architecture, which has high historical and cultural value.

Dear, Fengdu is called a ghost town for two reasons:1The legendary ghost town is short of trouble:

Fengdu is one of the famous ghost towns in China because of the legend that there are many ghost and ghost stories here. For example, there is a kind of ghost called "Mourning Ghost", which likes to appear on the streets of Fengdu to scare passers-by. There is also a type of ghost called the "Gobi Water Spirit", which will appear in the rivers and lakes of Fengdu, harming passing ships and people.

These legends and mysterious stories make the city of Fengdu full of mystery and horror. 2.Wars and natural disasters in history:

Fengdu has been attacked by many wars and natural disasters in history, such as the wars of the Three Kingdoms period, the floods of the Tang Dynasty, the ** of the Ming Dynasty and so on. These wars and natural disasters have brought great trauma and damage to Fengdu, and many buildings and cultural heritage have been destroyed or abandoned. These abandoned buildings and ruins form the scene of the ghost town of Fengdu.

Hello dear, I'm glad to answer for you, why Fengdu is called a ghost city, there are four reasons: one is Taoism, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded the "five buckets of rice" religion, absorbed a lot of witchcraft, and became the later "ghost religion". In 198 AD, his grandson Zhang Lu established the Taoist "Pingduzhi" in Fengdu, which became the missionary center of Taoism.

Later, Taoism made up a "Luo Feng Mountain", saying that it was the ghost capital governed by the Beiyin Emperor, who was the seventh-level central god of Taoism and was in charge of hell. In the Northern Wei Dynasty geographer Li Daoyuan's "Notes on the Book of Water", it is said that Fengdu is the forty-fifth place in the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism. The second is the saying of the ghost emperor (Tubo):

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, and it was believed that all these things were dominated by ghosts and gods. The Ba and Shu tribes are dominated by the Diqiang tribe, and the two tribes are broad. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Fengdu was the capital of Bazibe, with the continuous exchanges between the two ethnic groups of Bashu, politics, economy, culture, thoughts, and customs penetrated each other, so there was a common belief in the religious god - Tubo, which was the first generation of ghost emperors of the Bashu ghost tribe.

This ghost emperor lives in the hidden capital, and there are still relics of the "hidden capital" in Fengdu, and the third is the Buddhist "Yama King" saying. "King Yama" is a transliteration of Sanskrit, and was originally the king of the underworld in ancient Indian mythology. Buddhism continues to use this term as the demon king who governs hell.

Legend has it that he had eighteen judges under him, and he was in charge of eighteen hells. According to the "All the Sutras and Yinyi", the "King of Yama" is the "King of Equality", and he can accompany the four equal punishment of the four Yin and Wang Chengxian, which is the most widely circulated saying in Fengdu. As early as around 270 A.D., Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty said about Yin and Wang Chengxian in his "Legend of the Immortals".

Legend has it that in the Han Dynasty, there were two alchemists, one was named Yin Changsheng, who was the great-grandfather of Empress Liu Zhao; One is named Wang Fangping, an official to the court. Because they were dissatisfied with the status quo of society, they both came to Fengdu to cultivate, and in the early years of Wei Qinglong, they became immortals and left. Later, Lu Qiaona came to the Tang Dynasty, and the two of them were falsely rumored to be the "Yin King", that is, the king of the underworld.

There are several versions of the origin of the ghost town of Fengdu, and the most popular and reliable is the "Legend of the Two Immortals of Qin Ku". Originated from folklore, during the Han Dynasty, there were two people who were obsessed with cultivating immortals on the famous Dadong Mountain in Fengdu County, namely Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping. Yin Changsheng was the great-grandfather of Empress Liu Zhaoyin of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Emperor Liu Zhaoyin, and Wang Fangping served as a doctor in Zhongsan, both of whom practiced to become immortals.

In the Song Dynasty, the names of Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping were simplified and read as 'Yin Wang', that is, "the king of the underworld". After several dynasties, the atmosphere of Fengdu's ghost literature imitation became stronger and stronger, so that finally it was called "Ghost City Fengdu".