Fengdu Ghost City is a tourist attraction on the northern bank of the Yangtse River 170 km from the east of Chongqing. In the Fengdu Ghost city there are a variety of metaphoric ghosts in the inferno.Why it has been known as the "City of Ghosts"?
In folk stories, the Fengdu County in Chongqing Municipality is said to be original place of the hell.In the Eastern Han Dynasty, two officials from the imperial court: Wang Fangping and Yin Changsheng, got bored with the political life in the court and came to Mt. Minshan outside Fengdu City to practice Taoist teachings. Both of them later became immortals by carrying out self-cultivation. This story widely spread and Mt. Minshan became famous. When combined together, their surnames Yin and Wang, sound very much like "King of Hell" in Chinese. Hence the people began to call Fengdu the "Ghost City". Fengdu thus gets its nickname as a ghost city.
It was the legendary capital of The Ghost King sculptured statue is 138 meters high and 217 meters wide. The tongue only is 81 meters long and mouth 70 meters wide. The pictures are carved in to the mountain for a depth of 26 meters. Visitors can climb the body of the king to the top of the mountain. Guinness World Records has listed it as the biggest sculpture carved on a rock.Ghost State by Daoists.
According to superstitious legend"the dead come to Fengdu and the devils go to hell". Since Tang Dynasty, forty-eight temples have been built in this place, such as the "Hall of the Jade Emperor", " the "Palace of Hell", "Boundary Between the Living and the Dead", " the "Ridge of Helplessness" and the "Balcony of Nostalgia". All of the temples there look quite magnificent while statues are extremely lifelike.
In Fengdu, many historical sites are linked with the ghost culture. In the 1990s, local government began to promote the “ghost festival”.However, investigations show that lots of superstitious activities were involved during these ghost festivals.
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