Yin Cao Di Mansion
In China, a large number of ancient myths and Buddhist texts have records of Yin Cao Difu, Chinese divide everything in the world into two poles, this is the Chinese theory of yin and yang, is an important part of ancient Chinese philosophy, Chinese divide the space for human existence into heaven (yang), earth (yin); in China, there are three realms, that is, heaven, earth, hell; it is believed that people have souls, each person has three souls and seven spirits, and after death, people must first report to the Yin Cao Prefecture, where they will be judged by the high judge of the underworld ----- the king of Yan Luo According to the judgment of each person's performance in the yang, the good people will be incarnated into immortals and go to heaven to live the life of the gods and immortals, and live forever; those who are not good or bad will be reincarnated and become human again; and the bad people and the wicked will be beaten into the corresponding number of layers of the eighteen layers of hell in the Yin Cao underground palace and receive different punishments.
The ancient Chinese believed that there was a jade emperor in the heavens, a Buddha in the western heavens, an emperor on earth, and hades, presided over by jizo bodhisattvas and kings. When a person returns to the underworld after death, the king of Yama will punish him according to what he has done in the yang. Therefore, there is a way: do not repay the words, the gods and ghosts have arrangements.
According to legend, the Eighteen Hells and the Seventy-Five Divisions are very large institutions, and they are all departments of Hell. The distribution of the clergy in the prefectural government is as follows:
First of all, the highest-ranking Heavenly Qi Ren Saint Emperor was in charge of all living beings on the earth
This Heavenly Qi Ren Saint Emperor, also known as: Dongyue Emperor, Taishan God, we will not say anything, there are several versions. Some say that it is Pangu's grandson, Huang Feihu in the Fengshen Yanyi. In general, Emperor Tianqi Rensheng is the embodiment of Mount Tai, the divine messenger of communication between heaven and the earth, and the protector god of successive emperors who have been ordained by heaven and govern the world, which shows its status. In the period of life and death, the unity of ghosts, the power of Emperor Dongyue is very great, not only the god of the East of our country, but also the life, old age, illness and death, wealth and misfortune in our world. It is called: the matter of the nobles and lows of the people of the world, the eighteen hells and the six true books, and the seventy-five periods of life and death.
Then there was the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty
Emperor Beiyin was also known as the Northern Tai Emperor. Some sources show that he is the same person as Emperor Dongyue or that Emperor Fengdu is a stand-in for Emperor Dongyue, because of religious problems and other factors, there are different theories, in Taoism he is the supreme management god of hell in the underworld, the god of hell in Han legend. As early as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there is a record of his administration of hell. These two immortals also had no distinction between high and low status, and each had its own power.
Bodhisattva, King Jizo
Mentioning these two friends who know a lot about this, they will ask, what about the Jizo King Bodhisattva? Jizo King Bodhisattva belongs to Buddhism, that is, it was added after the introduction of Buddhism, so when it comes to various religions, then this hell is very complicated. Above these gods, there is also a Jizo Bodhisattva. Jizo King Bodhisattva intends to transcend all the ghosts of Hades so that the world will no longer do evil and will no longer fall into the hell of Hades and suffer. Therefore, all the ghosts who have committed mistakes in the world, if they sincerely repent and change, the karma they have done can be forgiven and saved from all kinds of torture. The bodhisattva who hid here once made a great wish before the Buddha: Hell is not empty, and the oath is not to become a Buddha! If the Buddha lord came to see him with sincerity, he ordered him to guard the Yin Cao Mansion! To the ghosts of the dead and to the excess.
After that there are five ghost emperors:
The Eastern Ghost Emperor Cai Yulei and Shen Di ruled the "Tao Zhi Shan" ghost gate
Western Ghost Emperor Zhao Wenhe, Wang Zhenren, rule "Mt. Tsukasa"
Northern Ghost Emperor Zhang Heng and Yang Yun, Zhiluo Fengshan;
Southern Ghost Emperor Du Ziren, ZhiLuofu Mountain;
Central Ghost Emperor Zhou Beg, Ji Kang, rule "Bao Calf Mountain"
Then there are the six days of Luo Feng
The Heavenly Palace of yin and yin, the Heavenly Palace of Emperor Taixu, the Heavenly Palace of Wucheng in the morning, the Heavenly Palace of Tianzhao Sin Qi, the Seven Non-Heavenly Palaces of Zong Ling, and the Heavenly Palace of Dare Si Lian wan. According to legend, the Yin Cao Di Mansion was controlled by the Ten Halls of Yan Luo.
The kings of yanluo in the ten halls are called: King Guang of Qin, King of Chujiang, Emperor of Song, King of Gongguan, King of Yanluo, King of Pingping, King of Taishan, King of Metropolis, King of Biancheng, and King of Chuanlun.
King Guang of Qin - in charge of the books of longevity and premature death, birth and death in the human world; unified management of the torture in the underworld and the auspiciousness and murder in the afterlife. The Hall of Judgment is located in the middle of the sea, beyond the Wojiao Stone, and on the Huangquan Black Road in the west.
King of Chujiang - The Lord of the Bottom of the Sea, the Great Hell under the Stone of Wojiao in the south.
Emperor Song - the lord of the bottom of the sea, the black rope hell under the Wojiao stone in the southeast.
The King of the Five Senses - rules the hell at the bottom of the sea, just to the east under the Stone of Wojiao.
The King of Yan Luo - the si holds the bottom of the sea, and the great hell is called under the Wojiao Stone in the northeast.
The King of Bian Cheng- in charge of the bottom of the sea, just north under the Wojiao Stone, shouted the Great Hell.
Tarzan King, in charge of the great undersea, ding north of the Great Hell of Heat and Annoyance under the Wojiao Stone.
The King of the Cities, at the bottom of the sea, is the Great Hell of Great Heat and Annoyance under the Stone of Vojo in the West.
The King of Equality, in charge of the Great Undersea, the Great Hell of A-Nose under the Wojiao Stone in the southwest.
The Wheel King, the temple is located outside the Hades Wojiao Stone, directly to the east, directly opposite the place of the Five Turbid Worlds.
The Ten Halls of Yama King Moxia also include: Chief Judge Cui Fujun, Zhong Kui, Black and White Impermanence, Minotaur Horse Noodles, Meng Po God and so on. The entire Yin Cao Mansion is under their control! I would like to mention one more person in particular, and that is Meng Po. Meng Po sat alone at the head of the bridge for thousands of years, seeing all the sorrows and joys of the world, good and evil, sending away one soul after another, so that they forgot all kinds of past lives and returned to the mortal world. There is a lyric that reads: Look, sentient beings / Sigh, joy and sorrow / Boil a thousand years of turbid soup, break away, empty.
These are myths and legends after all, but you and I are born in the world. You should be a kind and virtuous person, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with this!