Ice hell, a hell used by Taoism to punish evil people, is cold and painful in the cold wind. The original intention of hell is the prison of the underworld, and the ice hell originated from the eighteen hell of Buddhism. Buddhism claims that the evil doer will suffer all kinds of hardships after his death, and his dead soul will be thrown into the ice hell, which is the final end of his life. Volume 11 of Fa Zhu Yuan, a Taoist priest in the Tang Dynasty, said: There are eighteen small hells in the middle of a blue hell, and there are eighteen ice hells and other hells in the small hell. The eighteen layers of hell in Buddhism have different names, one of which is that the tenth and fifteenth layers are ice hell. Volume 11 of Fallin published by Taoist Tang described a cold hell: "The wind was biting and the explosion hissed. In the ice hell in the Buddhist image, the man is naked, his eyebrows are frosty, his lips are white, his teeth are trembling, his hands are clenched, his body is quite atrophied, and his muscles and bones are contracted with cold. The cold hell in Taoist hell theory specifically punishes those who commit corruption and injustice. Among the ten temples in Taoism, the second temple is Chu Wang Jiang Li, and its birthday is the first day of March. Li Shi, the King of Chu River, is in charge of the Earth Mansion, also known as the Deprived Yige Ice Mansion, and there are also 16 small mansions. Anyone who injures limbs, rapes and kills people will be pushed into the ice hell to suffer. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Taoist theory of Yan Shidian has been very popular. Taoism has set up Yan Diandian in the Chenghuang Temple to worship Yan Shidian. Taoism holds a ceremony to turn over the dead, and it is necessary to pray for the liberation of the dead in various temples so that they can ascend to heaven as soon as possible. The ghost town in Du Feng, Sichuan, and the eighteen-story hell in Dongyue Temple in Puxian County, Shaanxi Province all show the ice hell.

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