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The Heibai Wuchang, or Hak Bak Mo Seong, literally "Black and White Impermanence", are two deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld. As their names suggest, they are dressed in black and white respectively.
22 maj 2023 · Heibai Wuchang, the black guard and white guard of the Chinese underworld, is said to haunt the deathbed to guide the deceased’s soul to the realm of the dead. In Chinese mythology, a legend...
1 lip 2020 · In Chinese folk religion, the two deities, also known as Heibai Wuchang (黑白无常), literally “Black and White Impermanence”, are in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the Underworld.
Diyu (simplified Chinese: 地狱; traditional Chinese: 地獄; pinyin: dìyù; lit. 'earth prison') is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology. It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka , traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife , and a variety of popular expansions and reinterpretations of these ...
Shiwang, in Chinese mythology, the 10 kings of hell, who preside over fixed regions where the dead are punished by physical tortures appropriate to their crimes.
Hēidì (黑帝 "Black Deity" or "Black Emperor") or Hēishén (黑神 "Black God"), also known as the cosmological Běidì (北帝 "North Deity") or Běiyuèdàdì (北岳大帝 "Great Deity of the Northern Peak"), and identified as Zhuānxū (颛顼), today frequently worshipped as Xuánwǔ (玄武 "Dark Warrior") or Zhēnwǔ (真武), is the ...
The first part of this chapter addresses general misassumptions held among practitioners in Singapore and Malaysia connecting Anxi Chenghuangmiao and the graves of Xie Bian and Fan Wujiu to the origins of the modern Underworld tradition.
