Why is it called a ghost town, and why is it said that it is a ghost town?

The ghost city is located in Chongqing It is a "netherworld mansion" built by people with imagination, and with the exaggerated rendering of "Journey to the West" and "The Biography of Zhong Kui", the statement that the capital is a ghost town is becoming more and more common, and the fake has become true. In the end, it became real"Ghost town"。Since the Song Dynasty, people have built a set of buildings like the underworld here by thinking about the underworld in their hearts, making the capital a veritable ghost town.

In the past, there was a ghost legend.

酆都城 (fēng dū chéng), which can also be written as Fengdu City, is the old superstitious and legendary Yin Si Difu, where people go after death.

酆 (fēng) capital, the legendary underworld, is the place where the soul of a person goes after death. In addition, in real life, there is also a capital city, it is called Fengdu Ghost City, located in the north bank of the Yangtze River in Fengdu County, downstream of Chongqing, has a history of nearly 2,000 years, you can see a lot of legendary buildings here, such as Nai He Bridge, Huangquan Road, etc., countless tourists come here every year.

The legend of the capital city

There is such a legend about the city of Xudu: in the Han Dynasty, there were two people named Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping, because they saw through the red dust, so they concentrated on cultivating in the famous mountain of Fengdu, and later they all cultivated to become immortals. People spread the word of mouth, and slowly passed on the two names of Yin and Wang as "Yin King", that is, the king of the underworld, which is what we now call the Lord of Yama.

Fengdu Famous Mountain is famous because of the "Yin King", and then after different dynasties, there are more and more statues and buildings related to ghosts and gods here, and the atmosphere of ghost culture is getting stronger and stronger, so that later it has the title of "ghost city". As a result, in the Ming Dynasty, Fengdu was renamed Xudu and officially became the underworld of the world. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, superstition was eliminated and the capital was renamed Fengdu.

Where is the capital city?

It is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Fengdu County, downstream of Chongqing, with a history of nearly 2,000 years, and is a tourist attraction for cruise passengers on the Yangtze River. In the city of Xudu, there are many legends of the buildings and shapes of Caodifu in the yin, such as the chain finger of the Hum Ha Temple, the Temple of the Son of Heaven, the Naihe Bridge, the Huangquan Road, the Wangxiang Terrace, the Yaowang Palace, etc.

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Legend has it that during the Han Dynasty, there were two people, Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping, who saw through the red dust and began to cultivate in the famous mountain of Fengdu, and later both cultivated to become immortals. People spread the word of mouth, and the two positions of Yin and Wang were slowly falsely rumored to be "Yin King". The two Yin and the King were merged into the King of the Hades, that is, the King of Yama.

After different dynasties, all kinds of statues related to ghosts and gods in Fengdu Famous Mountain became more and more stooly, and the atmosphere of ghost culture became stronger and stronger, so that later it was called "ghost town". As a result, during the Ming Dynasty, Fengdu also became the capital of Yudu.

The ghost city of Fengdu was formerly known as the ghost city of Xudu, and it is necessary to make it clear that Fengdu is falsely rumored to be a ghost city, and the earliest historical origin is probably from the first generation of ghost emperors of the Bashu and Qiang tribes - Tubo lived in the "ghost country and secluded capital".

1. Bashu Qiang tribe.

According to the research of some historians, originally lived in the Tianshui area in southern Gansu, due to the tenth century BC to the ninth century BC, China's climate had a major change, the climate in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty was relatively warm, but soon deteriorated. According to the Zhushu Chronicle, when King Xiao of Zhou was in power, the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, was depleted, and there were two freezes in 903 and 897 B.C.

This means that there was a cold period in the 10th century BC, which lasted about one to two centuries, and it was not until the spring and autumn that the climate warmed. Because of this cold period, the Di people, who originally lived in Longnan and were distributed at the junction of today's Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan, moved southward. One of them went down through the Han River basin to form an alliance with the Ba tribe.

There is Fancheng in Xiangyang, Hubei Province today, which should be one of the Fan surnames of the Di nationality in the southward migration. The other group went down through the Jialing River basin and moved to northern Sichuan, and the "Banduman" in the northeast of Sichuan included the tribes from the Qiang system.

2. The Qiang tribe moved south.

east to today's Hubei and Xiangxi; It extends from the west of Sichuan to the northeast of Yunnan in the south. The Ba people's activity center was mainly active in the Hanshui basin from the Yin Shang to the Spring and Autumn Period, and later moved west to Sichuan due to the invasion of Chu. After entering Sichuan, the country of Pakistan was established, and when it was strong, the southeast of Sichuan and the west of Hunan were its southern borders.

The two tribes of the Shu and Qiang tribes in Cuba are also known as the two tribes of the ghost tribe, in the long-term exchanges, because they all believe in ghosts and witches, they have produced a common belief in the primitive religious god - Tubo, known as the first generation of ghost emperors of the two tribes of Bashu, this ghost emperor lives in the hidden capital.

The Eastern Han Dynasty Gao lured the "Huainanzi Falling Shape Chapter" and said: "The ancient seclusion is north of Yanmen. "A "secluded capital", a "north of Yanmen", it is difficult to say, there is a secluded capital in Youzhou in ancient times, and Yanmen refers to the area of Yanmen Pass in Shanxi; However, it is impossible for the Bashu Qiang ghost tribe to be in the north, so some people believe that this "north of Yanmen" is in present-day Sichuan.

Fengdu was used as the capital of Bashu in ancient times, and later it was rumored to be the "hidden capital" of the "ghost country". Nianfan, the "ghost country and secluded capital", probably means "the capital of the ghost clan".

3. The ghost clan believes in witches.

There must be witchcraft; The ghost clan has a primitive religion, and it must establish a god, this god is the first generation of ghost emperors, and Tubo is said to be the first god in the land of Gufengdu. Some people may think that this is nonsense, but later Zhang Daoling founded the "Five Bucket Rice Dao" in Sichuan, also known as the "Ghost Dao", and Zhang Tianshi absorbed the witchcraft of the Diqiang tribe as his magic to exorcise ghosts and cure diseases; Later, Taoism was one of the Youzhi in the city, during which it was internally related to the first generation of ghost emperors of Bashu who lived in Guyu.