Tell me something about the underworld

Legend has it that the cow's head and horse's face used to be in charge of real power in the underworld, but why did they only become arresting officers under Yan? Speaking of which, there is an interesting story. Cow's head and horse's face (two followers of the ghost king)-all kinds of demons/evil/evil people

A long time ago, there was a gentleman named Ma in Fengdu City. He was a tycoon with deep pockets in the city. Supposedly, he should be satisfied, but one thing has been bothering him, because he is sixty years old and has married eleven "wings" in succession. No matter how much you ask God to make a wish, you can't achieve it. Needless to say, Mr. Ma regards his only son, Ma Yichun, as the apple of his eye. But he was worried that if something happened, it would not only break the incense of Ma's family. And the rich have no heirs. For this reason, he was sad day and night and was at a loss. Unexpectedly, the house leaked rain, and it rained all night. One day, Mr. Ma had breakfast and was going out to prepare dining tables. When his son turned eighteen tomorrow, he would give him a wedding banquet. Coincidentally, just then, a man with eight characters passed by the door and said, "fortune teller, fortune teller!" " When Mr. Ma heard the shouts, he was overjoyed and even forgot to go out. "。 So he hurried down the steps with a gown in his hand and respectfully invited Mr. Bazi to come in and sit on it. After drinking tea, Mr. Ma said sincerely, "Sir, would you please count the lives of my children?" Mr. Bazi nodded and said, "Yes, yes." Mr. Ma immediately reported his son's birth time. Mr. Bazi was surprised and blurted out, "Oh, no! "Mr. Ma was shocked and suddenly broke into a cold sweat:" What? " "The villain is inconvenient to say." Hachi shook his head and sighed. Mr. Ma was getting more and more flustered, but in order to find out urgently, he begged, "Please rest assured, Sir, and come straight to the point. "Hachi hesitated for a moment and said," Your young master's clothes are good, but his birthday is too short, too short! " "How much is it?" "Eighteen." Mr. Ma fainted to the ground with a cry of "Oh, my God", and it took a long time to wake up, and his face was as white as earth. Unexpectedly, the child's eighteenth birthday tomorrow is the end of his life. Think of this, it is a heartbreaking cry. After a long time, she sobbed and asked, "sir, sir, please try your best to save my poor son!" " "Mr. Bazi thought for a moment and said," What can mortals do? There's only one way. I wonder if members are willing to spend money? "Mr Ma a listen to there are ways to consider, the in the mind naturally calm a lot. He quickly said: "As long as you can save your son, even if you lose everything!" Mr. Bazi just told him: Tomorrow night at midnight, you should prepare a table of the most abundant food and wine, put it in a box, take it to the first twelve steps of the "Death Gate" and give it to two chess players. However, you should invite them three times in a row, be patient and don't be impatient. Mr. Ma keeps it in mind. The next day, when he arrived at the designated place, he found two people absorbed in playing chess. These two are none other than bull's head and horse's face. Mr. Ma didn't dare to disturb them, so he had to kneel quietly, put the box on his head and watch silently. When they finished playing a game of chess, he carefully asked, "Two immortals, please eat before you play!" " "

Cow's head and horse's face (two followers of the ghost king)-all kinds of demons/evil/evil people

The two seemed to listen, but did not answer, so they played the second game of chess. Mr. Ma waited until the end of the second inning, but nothing happened. He was a little anxious, but he didn't dare to offend, so he had to wait on his knees. After a while, Niutou suddenly put the chess piece down: "Brother Ma, let's go. It's time. " Horse face is also busy putting down the chess pieces, putting away the chessboard and preparing to go down the mountain. At this time, Mr. Ma panicked outside, worried that he would miss the opportunity and miss the big event. He quickly raised his voice and shouted, "gentlemen, please eat before you go!" " The bull's head turned back and asked, "Who are you?" When Mr. Ma saw that the time had come, he quickly said, "You two gods have worked hard. I think you are hungry at this time. I will prepare vegetarian wine and simple dishes. Please ask the gods to satisfy your hunger and thirst! " Cow's head and horse's face could not help drooling when they saw this man's sincerity and the delicious food in the box. Ma Mian quietly said to the bull's head, "Niu Ge, we haven't eaten yet on this business trip. Let's have a full meal. It's hard to care about this person, don't you think? " Tauren have had this idea for a long time, but it's not convenient to say it. He nodded and said, "It's not too late to go down the mountain after eating." After talking, it's like the wind blowing away the leaves. I ate all the food and was about to leave. I saw the delivery man still kneeling on the ground and asked, "You must have something to ask us?" Commissioner Ma quickly kowtowed and said, "I am in trouble and need your help." Said and burned a pile of money paper. Cow's head and horse face felt embarrassed and had to say, "What do you want? Tell me quickly! I have something important to travel. " "Two gods, I only have one life, and life is coming to an end. Please show mercy to the two gods. " "What's your name?" "Ma Yichun." Tauren opened the "heady order" given to him by Cui Panguan. He was surprised and said, "Brother Ma, it's his son we want to catch. It's just not time yet. I didn't expect ... this ... "Commissioner Ma repeatedly kowtowed:" I would be grateful if the two immortals could prolong their lives! " Tauren said, "The law of Yin Cao is strict, and it is not easy to do it!" Mr. Ma secretly worried and had a brainwave. He turned to Ma Mian and said, "I have a brother named Ma, who is also in charge of the underworld. If you don't do it, I have to go to him. " When Ma Mian heard this, he thought to himself, I, the underworld from the king to the ghost, know that there is no one named Ma except me. If this relative is me, but I haven't met him, I tentatively ask, "My surname is Ma, too. I want to know who your brother is? " Mr. Ma said in surprise: "As blind as a bat, it is difficult for a villain to write two words' horse' in one stroke. Thank you, brother. " The horse said, "You said you were my brother. Why don't I remember? " "After you went to the grave, you drank ecstasy tea, and you forgot all about the dead. Where can I remember? " Ma thinks what he said is true, and now he has eaten his food. If he didn't do it well, he exchanged glances with Niu tou. Niutou knows that, in that case, consider it a personal favor and try to give him some change. So, while I was drunk, I went back to Cao. When it was known, he sent Bai impermanence to inquire about it himself, and it happened. Yama right immediately flew into a rage and immediately took the cow's head and horse's face to the temple. In order to make an example for others, he took responsibility for everyone in front of ministers, and then blew bad style twice. Suddenly, the cow's head and horse's face returned to their original shapes. Yama right saw that they really repented, so he cut off their official services and stayed in the underworld as an errand. Legend has it that long ago, Yan Luowang was the king of Pisha. He is militant by nature and never gives in. At that time, the only country that could compete with him was the country ruled by Wang Weituo, the original country, and the army was also very strong. They have been at war for years, fighting and killing each other.

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Sand King's national strength gradually weakened because of his blind resort to armaments. Finally, in a great war, Visha's army was almost killed by King Vito. Sand King managed to escape to the top of a mountain in the form of "deus ex", and his 18th Army assembled a million troops to look for him on the mountain. They comforted Peter Sand King first, and then they flew into a rage. They swore to heaven in the direction that defeated Vito began to live: "Follow Peter Sand King until death do us part! We must severely punish the vicious enemy, even if we go to the underworld, we must be king and fight bloody battles to the end! " Then, under the guidance of Pi Sand King, they went straight to hell without hesitation. As a result, Pi Sand King became a famous Yan Luowang. His eighteen novels were judges of eighteen layers of hell, and millions of people who followed him became jailers one by one. Sand King's oath has finally come true! Defeated by King Vito before his death, he became the king of hell after his death. When King Vito died, hell was really enough for him. There are countless kinds of hell, all kinds of strange, everything. What eight cold hell, eight hot hell, lonely hell, mud ploughing hell, knife mountain hell, iron bed hell, ice hell, skinning hell, beast hell, sword hell, maggot hell and other eighteen layers, each layer has cruel punishment and bloody instruments of torture. Perhaps there were more and more triad cases later, and it was difficult for one Yan to finish the trial, so ten cases were divided. These ten heavenly kings are Qin, Chu, Song Emperor, Five Official Kings, Bian Cheng King, Taishan King, Du Shi King, Equal King and Wheel King. They each judge the ghosts who were taken to their temples in the Ten Halls of Hell. Because Yan Luowang is the most famous, it ranks first in the "Top Ten Yamaraja". According to legend, after death, the soul should report to Zhujiajingtang. Yamaraja's "Ten Temples in Yamaraja" is a unique folk belief in ancient China. The so-called "Yamaraja with Ten Halls" means that there are ten kings in charge of hell who live on the top of the Ten Halls of Hell, so it is called "Yamaraja with Ten Halls". These are the top ten halls in Yamaraja, namely:

(10) ■ Qin Jiang, the first temple, was born on the first day of February, specializing in human life and death, governing the good and bad of the underworld and leading the rise; Half of the well-done ones will be sent to the Ten Halls for distribution, and they will still be placed on earth, and men will become women and women will become men. Those who do more evil than good are taken to the high platform on the right side of the temple, called the evil mirror platform, to give people a glimpse of the hearts of the world, and then they are approved by the second temple and sent to prison to suffer. ■ The second hall, King Jiang Li of Chu, was born on the first day of March, and was in charge of the hell on earth, also known as the ice hell of peeling off the cabinet. Sixteen small prisons have been set up, and anyone who has injured limbs, traitors or died, one is pushed into this prison, and the other is sent to sixteen small prisons to suffer. After the expiration, he was transferred to the Third Temple and sentenced to jail. ■ The third hall, Emperor Song Yu, was born on the eighth day of February. He was in charge of the Black Rope Hell and set up sixteen other small prisons. Anyone who disobeys their elders and instigates litigation is pushed into this prison and punished by hanging upside down, gouging out eyes and scraping bones. After serving his sentence, he was transferred to Hall 4. ■ On February 18th, the fourth hall, Lu Wang with five senses was born. He is in charge of the great hell, that is, the hell that stripped the blood pool, and set up sixteen other small hell. Anyone who resists rent and grain and cheats in trading is pushed into this prison, sentenced to suffer in a small prison and sent to five halls for verification all day.

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■ Fifth Tangbao was born on the eighth day of the first month. He used to live in the first hall and died of pity. He repeatedly snowed, which lowered the tone of the hall. The palm calls for hell, and sixteen hearts are imprisoned. Anyone who is sent to this temple will be taken to Wangxiangtai, where he can hear the news of his family and suffer all kinds of crimes. Then he will be pushed into this prison, sent to sixteen small prisons in Zhuxin, and his heart will be hooked out, thrown out with snake food, and stabbed in the head (Bao Gong is good at using hay cutters). After suffering all day, he will be sent to another temple. ■ Wang Bi, the king of the sixth hall and six cities, was born on the eighth day of March. The prison number called out the city of hell and death, and there were sixteen small prisons. Those disobedient and unfilial people were chopped by two little devils with saws. All the people who cried and complained about drowning in the north were sent to this prison. The incidents committed in the investigation will also be punished by iron cone beating and tongue burning. Send another jail to suffer, turn around seven halls all day, and then check if there is any other evil. ■ The seventh hall, Tai Shan Wang Dong, was born on March 27th. He is in charge of the hot hell, also known as the hell of grinding meat sauce, with 16 small prisons. Anyone who takes medicine from bones and leaves people with their relatives will be sent to this prison. Send it to another prison. After suffering all day, he was transferred to the eighth hall and put into prison for investigation and treatment. In addition, anyone who steals, falsely accuses, extorts or kills for money will be punished by frying pan; The Eighth Hall, the capital of Wang Huang, was born on the first day of April. He is in charge of the hot and annoying big hell, also known as the annoying pot hell, with 16 small prisons. Anyone in the world who is unfilial and makes parents feel depressed and troubled will be thrown into this prison. Then he was handed over to a small prison for additional punishment and suffered a lot. He was handed over to the tenth hall, and he became a beast forever. ■ The ninth hall, equal to Wang Lu, was born on the eighth day of April, and was in charge of Abi Hell, the subway network of Fengdu City, with 16 other small prisons. Anyone who kills and sets fire to the Dharma in the Yang realm will come to this temple, connect his hands and feet with hollow copper piles, fan the fire and burn his heart and soul, and be punished by Afi in hell. It was not until all the victims were reincarnated that it was proposed that the Ten Halls had six paths (Heaven, Humanity, Tunnel, Ashura, Hell and Beast). ■ The 10th Hall, Wang Xue, was born in April 17. He specializes in solving ghosts in each hall, judging good and evil respectively, approving grades and sending four counties to be reincarnated. Men and women live a long life, rich and poor, and they are listed in detail, and they are registered in the first hall every month. Wherever there are evil spirits, they try to get the eggs wet. Mayfly, after his sins are full, will be reborn in a wild land. Sent to the place where she was reincarnated, the shilling was given to the god of Meng Po, and she was forgotten in the audience, drinking mysterious soup, so as to forget the past life. It is generally believed that Buddhism was introduced into China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and made great progress in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. With the introduction of Buddhism into China, Rebecca belief began to be widely accepted and interacted with the original superstition and Taoist belief in China. China people already have the concept of ghosts and gods, which is embodied in the "Dongyue Emperor" who believes in China's local religion Taoism. "Dongyue Emperor" was originally a folk worship of Mount Tai, which was considered as the place where the soul leads to the underworld after death, and Mount Tai was the [Pluto]. After Buddhism was introduced into China, some gods in Buddhism were absorbed and adopted after the transformation of folk beliefs. On the other hand, Buddhism itself is actively developing locally to adapt to the new social environment. Therefore, in Buddhism, there is only one strictness, which has gradually evolved into the "Ten Temples". There is no definite evidence about the specific time when the belief of "Ten Temples Yamaraja" was formed. According to people's estimation, it was about the Song Dynasty. At this time, Yan has become the fifth of the top ten temples, which is considered to be held by Bao Zheng, the minister of the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a typical story about impermanence. One year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Bai Biao was crossing the road and saw a woman with two children crying in front of a grave. She was very sad. I saw an old man not far away shaking his head and sighing, very sympathetic. Bai impermanence asked the old man, only to know that this woman was greatly wronged. It turns out that this woman surnamed Chen is the third daughter of a wealthy businessman. The rich businessman has a lot of money, but his son is unfortunate. He only gave birth to three daughters, all of whom are pockmarked so far. My mother blamed herself and loved her when she saw her third daughter infected with smallpox. She died last year. Chen Jiayou has a buddy named Auda, who is honest on the surface and very calculating in his heart. He thinks that Miss Chen San is a pockmarked girl, and the son of a rich family will definitely not want her. It is better to seduce her as a wife, and when her father dies, this rich family will not belong to him! Then miss Chen San said that many marriages were because of that pockmarked face, and she didn't want it once. When she saw that Auda was strong and made her father like her, they flirted with each other and soon became lovers in private. A few months later, Miss Chen San's belly became bigger and bigger. Miss Chen San's father had to let Ao Daizuo be his son-in-law. After Oda really became a son-in-law, his father-in-law made him a manager, and he had the final say in everything in the family. Gradually, Auda became less respectful to her father-in-law and went out drinking and whoring with women. When he went home, Miss Chen San persuaded him to humiliate Miss Chen San. Master Chen is ill and angry. The more you gamble at night. Bai impermanence was very angry at the old man's words and decided to teach him a lesson and give Miss Chen San a way out. He followed Miss Chen San home. There happened to be a gambler to collect gambling debts. At first glance, it's a big deal. You have to pay him one hundred and twenty pieces of silver. Seeing no one at home, the gambler wanted to be rude with Miss Chen San in his arms, and was suddenly slapped three times. Miss Chen San pushed the gambler away, fled into the back room, plugged in the door, and was really overwhelmed. She hanged herself with a rope. She hung a rope and broke a rope, which made her feel very strange. She opened the door and carried her two children into the house. Miss Chen San smiled kindly and was not afraid. White impermanence said, "Why commit suicide? You might as well pack up the money you left at home and go somewhere else. You have to raise your two children! " "Miss Chen San listened to the white impermanence and left with two children. After Miss Chen San left, Chen Jia's four shops caught fire at the same time. That Aoda was holding a girl in Chunxiangyuan, smoking a big cigarette, and when he got home, all his belongings were burned out.

Legend of black and white impermanence II There are many legends about black impermanence, one of which is typical. Legend has it that there were two fathers and sons. My son likes leisure since childhood and hates work, smoking and gambling. The father is very strict, but the son just won't listen. Once, my son came back from gambling and lost everything. The father accidentally killed his son. After the death of his son, his bad habits remain unchanged, and ghosts still do evil and harm people on earth. [3] A few years later, one night, my son came to his house. When he was about to enter the house, the dogs in the yard kept barking. Knowing that another ghost was coming to harm people, his father left the room with a knife in one hand and a tung oil lamp in the other. Seeing his father's ferocity, his son jumped into the house and said, "Father, this child didn't come to harm anyone. He just wanted to come back and see your old man." My father said, "You do evil in the world, and even after you die, your neighbors are not clean.". After I accidentally killed you, I still felt bad for a long time. It is not difficult for me to continue to do evil. " The son said, "What you said is really reasonable. My son found out now and vowed not to do evil again. He will definitely turn over a new leaf and return to the afterlife to repay his kindness. " Father said, "It's so convenient that it's not allowed for my father to have difficulty meeting the villagers." The son said, "Dad, don't worry. From now on, my son is tortured and will never visit your old man again. " Take care, father. "Since then, my son really didn't hurt anyone. He went to the eighteenth floor of hell to be punished. On the eighteenth floor of hell, he suffered a lot before he realized the value of life. Those evil things he did in the past are really guilty. On one occasion, King Guang of Qin summoned him in Yamaraja, the Tenth Hall, and said, "Why don't you take the body back to Yang? "He said," In my last life, I did something that thousands of people hated to scold. Everywhere I go, people kill me with knives and sticks. Doing evil is really reviling. I want to be a good person again. "Qin Guang said," It seems that you are really an evil ghost who can turn evil into good. I tell you, if you're a good ghost for another three years, I'll seal you off on a cloudy day. "Three years later, the Tenth Hall of Hades summoned him again and said," In the past three years, you have really changed from evil to good and done a lot of good things. I've reported to Yin for approval, and I've made you an official position of reward and punishment department, specializing in catching ghosts. "Since then, he has been wearing black linen clothes, patrolling around in the middle of the night and making unannounced visits. He rewarded Yin for his good deeds and evil deeds, and arrested many evil spirits. Impermanence is a Taoist belief.