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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.
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 ...
6 paź 2024 · To begin with, Chinese rulers of hell are neither evil gods nor responsible for any evil-doing in the mortal world. They are also not demons. While hailed as sovereigns and high-ranking in the divine pantheon, none are supreme deities too. All Chinese Gods of Hell report to the Court of Heaven.
16 wrz 2018 · The Seventh Lord is Bai Wuchang (白無常), and the Eighth Lord is Hei Wuchang (黑無常). Their mission is to bring dead people’s ghosts from the ordinary human world to the underworld at the moment of their deaths (p. 220). Fig. 2 – A depiction of the spirits taking a soul to the Chinese underworld (larger version).
27 kwi 2011 · Diyu, 地獄, the Traditional Chinese Hell, based on the Buddhism concept of Naraka, is an underground maze with various levels and chambers, where souls are taken after death to atone for the sins they committed when they were alive. Some Chinese legend speaks of eighteen levels of Hell.
2 gru 2022 · In Chinese mythology, Yan Wang (閻王) is the King of Hell. Yan Wang oversees the underworld, presides over the ten layers of Diyu (地獄), or the Chinese-Buddhist Hell, and judges the fate of the dead. He is one of the most feared gods in the belief system.
Hei (black) Wu Chang and Bai (White) Wu Chang are collectively known as Hei Bai Wu Chang - Black and White Impermanence. They are often also collectively referred to as the Two Lords of Impermanence (无常二爷 wú cháng èr yé) or the 7th and 8th Lords (七爷八爷 qī yé bā yé).
