Transcript The Fate of Evildoers English I

Hell Afterlife
English I—
Louise S.
McGehee School
2004
Alex and Melanie
(Blogiopi)
Chinese Beliefs on Hell
• The Underworld is a mix of
Taoist, Buddhist, and
traditional folk legends.
• Yen Lo Wang was the King of
Hell in Chinese mythology
(God of Death).
• In China, Cypress symbolizes
death and afterlife, & China
oranges symbolize the renewal
and celebration of life.
• People with negative karma
are reborn in hell until their
karma becomes positive, and
they are then reborn as
humans or ghosts (Buddhist
belief).
(Windsteig, Oliver)
(“Chinese
New
Year”)
Stages of Hell
• An evildoer would be presented to the city of
ghosts.
• Then, he/she would cross the Naihe Bridge to
reach the Gate of Hell.
• The levels/chambers of hell are located in the
Fengdu Mountains, each with it’s own god.
• Sinners come to the mountains and are
transferred to one of the chambers for
punishment.
• Finally, the sinners were given the Drink of
Forgetfulness by Lady Meng-Po to erase their
memory and be reborn.
Wheel of Life
• In the last stage of
hell, the sinner would
be given another
chance.
• The process included
spinning around,
gradually getting
faster, and then
shooting off into the
body of a new life.
• If the sinner had
repented enough,
he/she would be
reborn as a baby.
• If the sinner had not
repented enough,
he/she would be
reborn as a slug.
Ten Courts/Levels of Hell
1)
2)
3)
When evildoers would
arrive in hell, they
would arrive at the 1st
court and exit through
the last court.
Depending on their evil
deed, they would arrive
at one of the courts inbetween.
Mirror of Retribution (QinQuang Wang)
The Pool of Filth and the
Hell of Ice (Qu-Jiang
Wang)
Black Rope Hell and the
Upside Down Prison
(Song-Di-Wang)
(“Chinese Symbol Vocabulary
Collection”)
Ten Courts/Levels of Hell
(Continued)
4) The Black Lake of Blood and the Terrible Bee
torture (Wang-Wu-Guan)
5) 16 Departments of the Heart Gouging (Yen-LoWang)
6) Screaming Torture and Administrative Errors (BianCheng-Wang)
7) Torture by Mincing Machine (Tai-Shan-Wang)
8) Hot suffocation Hell (Du-Shi-Wang)
9) Iron Web and Office of Fair Trading (Ding-DengWang)
10) The Wheel of Rebirth (Zhaung-Lun-Wang)
Chinese Hell (Afterlife)
• “Plant good deeds and
you'll harvest good
deeds; do evil deeds and
you'll receive the same”—
Chinese summary of
retribution
• The myths on hell still
exist in China today.
• Many sculptures of the
punishments of hell can
be found in the Tiger
Balm Gardens in Hong
Kong and Singapore.
(Bryant, Darren)
(“Other places visited”)
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