Why is Fengdu in Sichuan called a ghost town? What's the history?

Because Fengdu Ghost Town is famous for all kinds of underworld buildings and shapes.

The theory of "ghost country and secluded capital" started from Pingdu Mountain. According to the Records of Fengdu County and Biography of Immortals by Ge Hong, it is said that there was a king and Yin Changsheng as immortals in Pingdu Mountain in Han Dynasty, and Taoism set up a heavenly teacher in this mountain, which was listed as one of the "36 caves and 72 blessed places". Later generations attached "Yin Wang" as "Yin Wang" (the king of the underworld) and lived in "Ghost Capital".

Pingdu Mountain has gradually become the "Yin Capital". Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Laugh at the scholars in the world, sink the soul and make the north rich", which made the name of the ghost town famous far and near.

In addition, the ruling classes in the past dynasties continued to deliberately exaggerate, and the literati in the past dynasties described it through novels, poems, travel notes, inscriptions and other forms, such as The Journey to the West's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Yue Zhuan and The Journey to the West.

Therefore, a relatively comprehensive ghost town has been formed in Fengdu. From fantasy to reality, it has experienced more than 2000 years of history, organically combining Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Chinese ghost culture. Integrating Bayu culture, Central Plains culture and foreign culture; Combine the imagination of folk myths and legends with reality; Only by combining various art forms such as architecture, sculpture and painting can we form a world-famous "ghost town culture".

Extended data:

Fengdu was misinformed as a ghost town. The earliest historical origin may be that the first generation of ghost emperor Tubo of Bashu Bianqiang tribe lived in a "ghost country".

According to some historians' research, I used to live in Tianshui area in southern Gansu, but the climate in China changed greatly from the 10 century BC to the 9th century BC. It was warmer in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, but it soon deteriorated. During the week recorded in bamboo slips, the Hanshui River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, was frozen twice in 903 BC and 897 BC respectively, and then there was a great drought.

This means that there was a cold period in the tenth century BC, which lasted for about one or two centuries, and it didn't get warmer until the Spring and Autumn Period. Because of this cold period, the Di people who originally lived in Longnan and distributed at the junction of Gansu, Shaanxi and Sichuan today moved southward on a large scale. One of them went down to the Hanshui Valley to form an alliance with the Ba tribe.

Today, there is Fancheng in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, which should be one of the Fan surnames in the process of the migration of Di nationality to the south. Another "Banton" crossed the Jialing River valley and moved to northern Sichuan and northeastern Sichuan, including the tribes of the Bianqiang family.

East to today's Hubei and Xiangxi; South to western Sichuan and northeastern Yunnan. The activity center of Ba people mainly lived in Hanshui River valley from Yin Shang to Spring and Autumn Period, and then moved westward to Sichuan due to the invasion of Chu. After entering Sichuan, Pakistan was established. When it was strong, southeast Sichuan and Xiangxi were its southern boundaries.

The Shubian Qiang tribe in Cuba is also known as the two tribes of the ghost family. In the long-term communication, because everyone believes in ghosts and witches, a primitive religious god-Tubo, known as the first generation ghost emperor of Bashu clan, has emerged. This ghost emperor lives in Youdu.

Huai Nan Zi written by Gao in the Eastern Han Dynasty. "Falling Shape" said: "Ancient seclusion is in the north of Yanmen." A "quiet capital" and a "north of Yanmen" are difficult to explain. The ancient secluded places are all in Youzhou, and Yanmen refers to Yanmenguan area in Shanxi; However, it is impossible for the Bashu border strong ghost clan to be in the north, so some people think that this "north of Yanmen" is in today's Sichuan.

Fengdu was once the capital of Bashu in ancient times, and was later called the "quiet capital" of "ghost country". This "ghost country secluded capital" probably means "ghost home capital".

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