Tell me something about the underworld

according to legend, 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 one of the servants of Yan? Speaking of which, there is an interesting story. Cow's head and horse's face

Long, long ago, there was a member named Ma in Fengdu City, and he was a tycoon with both financial and power in the city. Supposedly, he should be satisfied, but there is one thing that always bothers him, because he is sixty years old and has married eleven "wing houses" one after another. No matter how much you ask God to make a wish, you can't get it. Needless to say, Mr. Ma regarded his only son, Ma Yichun, as the apple of his eye. But he was very worried that if something happened, it would not only break the incense of Ma's family. And there is no successor to the rich family. For this reason, he was sad day and night and was at a loss. It was unexpected that the house leaked and it rained all night. One day, Mr. Ma had breakfast and was ready to go out to prepare dining tables and hold a wedding banquet for his son when he turned eighteen tomorrow. As luck would have it, just then, a man with eight characters passed by the door, and there was a word in his mouth: "Fortune teller, fortune teller!" " When Mr. Ma heard the shouts, he was overjoyed and forgot all about going out. So he hurried down the steps with his gown in his hand, and respectfully invited Mr. Bazi into the room to sit on it. After tea, Mr. Ma said sincerely, "Sir, would you please count my children's lives?" Mr. Bazi nodded and said, "Yes, yes." Mr. Ma immediately reported the birth time of his son. Mr. Eight-character couldn't help but be shocked and blurted out: "Oh, no!" Mr. Ma was surprised, and suddenly he was so scared that he broke into a cold sweat: "What?" "The villain is inconvenient to say." Mr. Hachi shook his head and sighed. Mr. Ma became more and more flustered, but in order to find out urgently, he begged, "Please don't worry, sir, just say it." Mr. Hachi hesitated for a moment and said, "Your young master's clothes are good, but it's a pity that his birthday is too short, too short!" "How much?" "eighteen." Mr. Ma fainted to the ground with a cry of "Oh, my God", and it took him a long time to wake up, his face as white as earth. Unexpectedly, tomorrow's child's eighteenth birthday will be the end of his life. Think of this, it is a heartbreaking cry. It was a long time before she sobbed and asked, "Sir, Sir, please try every means to save my poor son!" " Mr. Bazi thought for a moment and said, "What can mortals do? There is only one way. I wonder if members are willing to spend money?" When Mr. Ma heard that there was still a way to think about it, his heart was naturally much calmer. He quickly said, "As long as I can save my son, even if I lose everything!" Mr. Bazi just told him: At midnight tomorrow night, you should prepare a table of the most abundant dining tables, pack them in a box, take them to the first twelve steps of the "Death Gate" and give them to the two chess players. However, you should invite them three times in a row, wait patiently and don't be impatient. Mr. Ma kept it in mind. The next day, when he arrived at the designated place, he found two people there concentrating on playing chess. These two are none other than cows' heads and horses' faces. Mr. Ma didn't dare to disturb them, so he had to kneel quietly and put the box on his head to watch silently. When they finished playing a game of chess, he carefully asked, "Two gods, please eat before you play!" "

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The two men seemed to listen but didn't 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 kneel there and wait. After a while, Niutou suddenly put the chess piece down: "Brother Ma, let's go. It's time." The 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 and horse's face looked back and asked, "Who are you?" When Mr. Ma saw that the time had come, he quickly said, "You two gods have worked too 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 quench your thirst!" Cow's head and horse's face can't help drooling when they see this person's sincerity and the delicious food in the box. Ma Mian said quietly to the bull's head, "Brother Niu, we haven't eaten yet on this business trip, so let's have a full meal. It's hard to care for this person, what do you think? " Tauren also had this idea for a long time, but it was inconvenient to say it. He nodded and said, "It's not too late to eat and go down the mountain." After talking about it, it was like a wind blowing away leaves. I ate all the food and was about to leave. When I saw the delivery man still kneeling on the ground, I asked, "You must have something to ask for for us?" Member Ma quickly kowtowed and said, "I'm in trouble, and I need your help." Said and burned a bunch of money paper. The bull's head and horse's face felt sorry, so they had to say, "What do you want? Tell me quickly! I have something important to travel. " "Two gods, I only have one life, and my life is coming to an end. Please ask the two gods to show your kindness." "What's your name?" "Ma Yichun." Niu Tau opened the "Gouhun Order" given to him by Cui Panguan, and was shocked: "Brother Ma, it is his son that we are going to arrest, but the time has not yet arrived, and I didn't expect ... this ..." Member Ma repeatedly kowtowed: "If the two gods can extend his birthday, I will be grateful!" The bull's head said, "The law of Yin and Cao is strict, so it's not easy to do it!" Mr. Ma was secretly anxious 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." Hearing this, Ma Mian thought to himself, I know this underworld from the king to the ghost, and there is no one named Ma except me. If this relative is me, but I haven't seen him, I tentatively asked, "My surname is Ma, too. I wonder who your brother is?" Mr. Ma said with surprise: "The villain is as blind as a bat, and it is difficult 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 underworld, you drank ecstasy tea, and you forgot all about the dead. Where can you remember?" The horse thought that what he said was true, and now he has eaten his food. If it is not done well, he exchanged a wink with a bull's head. The bull's head knows, in that case, let's just do it as a personal favor and try to give him some change. So, while drunk, I went back to Cao to forget about it. This matter was known by Yama right, who sent Bai impermanence to find out for himself, and it really happened. Yama right immediately flew into a rage, and immediately took the bull's head and horse's face to the temple. In order to kill one and respect one hundred, in front of his ministers, he took responsibility for each of them, and then blew two evil winds. Suddenly, the cow's head and horse's face were returned to their original shapes. Yama right saw that they were truly repentant, so he cut off their officials for service and stayed in the underworld as an errand. Legend has it that long ago, Yan Luowang was a king of Pisha. He was belligerent by nature and never gave in. At that time, the only country that could compete with him was a country ruled by the original king Vito, and the army was also very strong. They have been at war for years, fighting and killing each other.

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Because Pi Sand King was blindly fighting for arms, his national strength was gradually exhausted. Finally, in a big battle, the army of Pi Sha was almost wiped out by the original king of Vito. Sand King managed to escape to the top of a mountain in deus ex, and his eighteen troops gathered a million troops to look for him on the mountain. They comforted Peter Sand King first, and then they were furious. They swore to heaven in the direction where the defeated Vito began to live: "Follow Peter Sand King to the death! We must punish the vicious enemies, even if we go to the underworld, we must be kings and fight bloody battles to the end! " Then, under the leadership of Pi Sand King, they went straight to hell without hesitation. As a result, Pi Sand King became the renowned Yan Luowang, and his eighteen departments were judges in eighteen layers of hell, and the millions of people who followed him became jailers one by one. Sand King's oath has finally come true! Before his death, he was defeated by King Vito, and after his death, he became the king of hell. When King Vito expired, 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 plow 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 it was later that there were more and more cases in the underworld, and it was difficult for a Yan to finish the trial, so it was divided into ten. The ten kings are Qin Guangwang, Chu Jiangwang, Emperor Song, Five Official Kings, Yan Luowang, Biancheng King, Taishan King, Dushi King, Equal King and Wheel King. They each judge the ghosts who are taken to their own temples in the ten halls of hell. Because Yan Luowang is the most famous, it ranks first among the "Ten Yamaraja". According to legend, the soul will report to Zhujiajing Hall after death. Yamaraja's "Ten Temples 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 above the ten halls of hell, so they are called "Yamaraja with Ten Halls". These are the ten halls of Yamaraja, namely:

Ten halls of Yamaraja (1 pieces) ■ The first hall, Qin Guang Wang Jiang, was born on the first day of February, specializing in the premature life and death of human beings, governing the good and ill luck of the underworld, the good and the bad, and then leading to the transcendence; Those who have done well in half will be sent to the tenth hall for distribution, and they will still be put into the world, and men will become women and women will become men. Those who do more evil than good are taken to the right high platform of the temple, which is called the platform of evil mirrors, so that one can look at the heart of the world, and then approve the second temple and send it to prison to suffer. ■ The second temple, Chu Jiangwang calendar, was born on the first day of March, and was in charge of the living hell, also known as the ice hell of the clothes-peeling pavilion. Sixteen small prisons were set up, and anyone who injured limbs, raped thieves and killed people in the dead was pushed into this prison, and the other was sent to the sixteen small prisons to suffer. At the expiration of the period, he was transferred to the third temple and sent to prison with additional punishment. ■ The third hall, Emperor Yu of the Song Dynasty, was born on the eighth day of February. He was in charge of the Black Rope Hell, and another sixteen small prisons were set up. Anyone who disobeyed his elders and instigated litigation was pushed into this prison, and was punished by hanging upside down, gouging eyes and scraping bones. After serving his sentence, he was transferred to the fourth hall. ■ In the fourth hall, Lu, the king of five officials, was born on February 18th. He was in charge of the Great Hell, also known as the Hell of Stripping Blood Pool, and set up another sixteen small hells. Anyone who resisted grain rent and cheated in trading was pushed into this prison, and was sentenced to suffer in a small prison and sent to the Fifth Hall for nuclear inspection all day.

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■ The fifth hall, Yan Luowang Bao, was born on the eighth day of the first month, and the former Ben lived in the first hall. Because of pity, he died, and repeatedly released the sun and stretched out the snow, lowering the tone of this hall. The palm of your hand calls for hell, and sixteen hearts are imprisoned. Anyone who has been sent to this temple will be taken to Wangxiangtai, so that he can hear about his family in the world and suffer from all kinds of crimes. Then he will be pushed into this prison, and he will be sent to the Sixteen Small Prisons of Zhuxin, hook out his heart, throw it with snake food, stab his head (Bao Gong is good at using hay cutter), and he will be sent to another temple after suffering all day. ■ In the sixth hall, Wang Bi, the king of six cities, was born on the eighth day of March, and the superintendent called out the great hell and the city of death, and set up another sixteen small prisons. Those who were disobedient and unfilial were chopped up by two little devils with saws. All the people who complain bitterly about drowning and crying in the north are sent to this prison. Investigating the events committed will also be punished by iron cone beating and tongue burning. Send a small prison to suffer again, turn to the seventh temple all day, and then check if there is any other evil. ■ The seventh hall, Dong, the king of Taishan, was born on March 27th. He was in charge of the hot hell, also known as the hell of grinding meat sauce, and there were 16 small prisons. Anyone who takes medicine from the bones and leaves people to be close to their relatives will be sent to this prison. Send another jail. After suffering for a full day, he was transferred to the eighth hall and put in prison for investigation and treatment. In addition, anyone who steals, falsely accuses, extorts, and kills for money will be punished by frying pan; ■ The eighth hall, the capital city of Wang Huang, was born on the first day of April. He was in charge of the big hot and annoyed hell, also known as the annoyed pot hell, and there were 16 small prisons. Anyone who is unfilial in the world and makes his parents feel depressed and troubled will be thrown into this prison. Then he was handed over to the small prisons for additional punishment, and he suffered a lot. He was handed over to the Tenth Hall, and he was transformed into a beast forever. ■ The ninth hall, equal to Wang Lu, was born on the eighth day of April, and was in charge of the Abi Hell of Fengdu City Rail Network, and another 16 small prisons were set up. Anyone who kills, sets fire and beheads the Dharma in the world of Yang will come to this temple, use hollow copper stakes to link his hands and feet, fan fire to burn, burn his heart and liver, and be punished with Afi Hell. It was not until all the victims were reincarnated that it was proposed that there were six paths (Heaven, Humanity, Tunnel, Asura Road, Hell Road and Beast Road) in the Tenth Hall. ■ The tenth hall, the wheel king Xue, was born on April 17th, specializing in solving ghosts in each hall, respectively, good and evil, approving the grades, and sending four major prefectures to reincarnate. Men and women live long lives, rich and poor, and they are listed in detail one by one, and they are registered in the first hall every month. Where there are evil spirits, they try to make their eggs wet. ephemerality, after his sins are full, will be reborn in a savage land. Where sent to the incarnate, shillings are handed over to the God of Meng Po, and they are forgotten under the stage, and they are drunk with mysterious soup, so as to forget the past life. It is generally believed that Buddhism was introduced to China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and achieved great development in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. With the introduction of Buddhism into China, Yan Wang's beliefs began to be widely accepted, and interacted with the original superstition and Taoist beliefs in China. People in China originally had the concept of ghosts and gods, which was reflected in the "Dongyue Emperor" who believed in Taoism, a local religion in China. "Dongyue the Great" was originally a folk worship of Mount Tai, which is considered to be the place where the soul leads to the underworld after death, while Mount Tai is the [Pluto]. After Buddhism was introduced into China, some gods in Buddhism were absorbed and adopted after being reformed by folk beliefs. On the other hand, Buddhism itself is also actively localized for development to adapt to the new social environment. So in Buddhism, there was only one Yan, which gradually evolved into the "Ten Temples Yamaraja". 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 Yamaraja in the "Ten Temples of Yamaraja", and it is considered to be held by Bao Zheng, a minister in the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a typical story about Bai impermanence. One year during the Qingming Festival, Bai impermanent passed by on business and saw a woman with two children crying and worshipping at a grave, which was very sad. I saw an old man shaking his head and sighing not far away, very sympathetic. Bai impermanence asked the old man, only to know that this woman had a great injustice. 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 unlucky. He only gave birth to three daughters, who are still pockmarked. When my mother saw that her third daughter was infected with smallpox, she blamed herself and loved her very much. She died last year. Chen Jiayou has a buddy named Ao Da, who is honest on the surface and has a lot of calculation 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 his father dies, this rich family will not belong to him! Then miss Chen San said many marriages, all because of that pockmarked face, and she didn't want any. When she saw that Aoda was strong and made her father like her, they made eyes at each other and soon became lovers privately. After a few months, Miss Chen San's belly grew bigger. Miss Chen San's father had to make Ao Daizuo his son-in-law. After Aoda really became a son-in-law, his father-in-law made him the manager, and he was in charge of everything in the family. Gradually, Aoda was less deferential to her father-in-law, and she was drinking and whoring with women outside. When he came home, Miss Chen San persuaded him and humiliated Miss Chen San. Master Chen got sick and was so angry. The worse it is to gamble at night. Bai impermanence got angry at what the old man said, and decided to teach Ao Da a lesson and show Miss Chen San a way to survive. He followed Miss Chen San home. There happened to be a gambler who came to collect gambling debts. At first glance, it was a big deal, so he had to pay him one hundred and twenty pieces of silver. Seeing that there was no one at home, the gambler tried to be rude with Miss Chen San in his arms and was suddenly slapped three times. Miss Chen San pushed away the gambler, fled into the back room, plugged in the door, and was really overwhelmed, so she took the rope to hang herself. She hung a rope and broke a rope, which made her feel strange. She opened the door and carried her two children into the house. Miss Chen San smiled kindly at Bai impermanence and was not afraid. Bai impermanence said, "Why kill yourself? Why don't you clean up your house?"