Fengdu Ghost City

Chinese Name: 丰都鬼城 (Feng Du Gui Cheng)
Location: No.152, Mingshan Town, Fengdu County, Chongqing
Ticket: Entrance ticket CNY100.00, sightseeing bus CNY30.00
Estimated tour time: about 3 hours
Recommended time to visit: all year round.
Nearby attractions: Fengdu Xueyu Cave, Wulin Mountain National Forest Park, Fairy Mountain National Forest Park, Wushan Small Three Gorge, etc.

Fengdu Ghost Town originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty with a history of nearly 2,000 years. Located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Fengdu County, downstream of Chongqing, it is a tourist attraction for cruise passengers of the Yangtze River. Fengdu Ghost Town is also known as the Capital of the Ghost State. It is said to be the home of the dead. The ghost town is famous for their various buildings and shapes in the underworld. There are several buildings in the ghost town that represent the underworld. It is not only a legendary ghost town, but also a treasure house of folk culture and art integrating Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. It is one of the most famous cultural landscapes on the golden tourist route of the Yangtze River.

Fengdu Ghost Town Scenic Spot is divided into Ghost Town Minshan Mountain Scenic Spot and Ghost King Stone Carving Scenic Spot. In December 2015, Ghost Town Minshan Mountain Scenic Spot was selected as one of the 30 Best New Tourist Landscapes in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Fengdu has been a famous cultural city since ancient times. It is the most distinctive and famous historical and cultural town in China. Fengdu Ghost Town is famous for its rich ghost culture where the underworld is located.

With its long history, unique cultural connotation, magical legends, beautiful scenery and irreplaceable ornamental value as well as the rare carrier and unique source of ghost culture research, Fengdu Ghost Town presents the mysterious oriental deities to the tourists at home and abroad.

Fengdu Ghost Town is the "underworld" built by people's imagination. With the help of their imagination, people successively built a series of underworld institutions, such as Hall of the King of Hell, Gate of Hell, Realm of Yin and Yang and the Eighteen Hells, using legal mechanisms similar to those of the human world. The ghosts and spirits of each level are in various shapes, extraordinary and strange. Instruments of torture were horrifying and chilling. There are many legends of ghosts and gods circulating here in Fengdu Ghost Town.