Fengdu: ghost town

While traveling in the Sichuan province, I was invited to go and visit the ghost town of Fengdu. On the bank of the Yangtze River and on the Minshan Mountain, you will find series of temples that were build in the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD). The place is a representation of Chinese hell mythology. It depicts through statues, paintings and gates, the journey the dead need to take. Incorporating ideas from Taoism and Buddhism as well as traditional Chinese folk religion, Fengdu is a kind of purgatory place. Here you will be judged for your earthly (mis)deeds. At each gate or temple, you’ll have to reflect on what you have done and either a reward or punishment is waiting the dead. The Chinese folk version of the final judgment! Being on this spiritual mountain, I did follow the local customs and made some prayers and offerings according to some Taoism and Buddhist traditions.