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Fengdu City of Ghosts

Fengdu got its reputation as the "Ghost City" 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". 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.

The ship cruises along the river down to the east, taking you out from Chongqing and into the Ghost Town and setting you on a path that brings humanity to introspection.
The first stop in Three Gorges goes with a unique experience in “the gate of hell”.
Ghost Town is not terrifying at all as it may sound. It’s just a hierarchical netherworld waved with imagination, acting the function of arrest, prison, trial, sentence, and reform.
The wispy afterlife builds a real world in Fengdu. The Bridge of Helplessness no longer hears sighs and the blood-red pools don’t even exist any longer. Going across the bridge, be it five, seven, or nine steps, means nothing but the pursuit of peace and blessedness. The Mengpo soup on the bridge has become a purchasable feature, allowing memories to linger in every tourist’s heart.

The journey for the spirit is one that bids farewell to the country and the relatives, leaving nostalgia and the hardships of entering the netherworld all to themselves.
The journey for the living is one that yearns for the Ghost-City culture and searches for self-cultivation and inner redemption.
From ancient times to Eastern Han Dynasty, with the two thousand years of history, the Ghost City has cumulated fictions, poetry, travel notes and epigraph during the past dynasties and at all times and in all over the world it has become a unique ghost culture gathering.

The Ghost City is noted not only for its legends, but also for its attractive scenery. The bridges, the pavilion, the stages, the halls, the ancient temples, the old caves and trees old as time reaching the sky…..all add color to the mysteriousness of the mountains. Every spot is filled with wonderful scenes and thought-provoking stories. Even Yi Zhongtian, a notable scholar acclaimed “upon all corners of the land, since year millenary, the Ghost City ranks with Buddha, Taoism,and Confucianism ”.