Fengdu Travel Guide

Reputed as the "Ghost City" since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fengdu is located on the northern bank of the Yangtze, some 176 km downstream from Chongqing and is a must see shore excursion highlights for travellers on the Yangtze River.
The story about Fengdu was that there were two officials from the imperial court, Wang Fang Ping and Ying Chang Sheng came to Mountain Minshan outside Fengdu city to practice Taoist teachings as they were bored with political life in the court. Both of them later became undying by carrying out self-cultivation. Their surnames Yin and Wang sound very much like "King of Hell" in Chinese when combined together. Hence the people began to call Fengdu the "Ghost City". Chinese people believe that the social structure is hell and is exactly like what in the real world. In hell, one's spirit goes through the whole bureaucracy to be finally judged. Those pure of spirit will be rewarded and the sinful of spirit will be punished. Punishment would be different to different kinds of sins. The temples built on Mountain Minshan show punishing instruments and demon paintings, which depict the Chinese people's imagination of Hell.

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