According to Yan Luowang's classics, all kinds of ghosts are punished and tortured in turn in each temple, and finally sent to the tenth temple to be handed over to the wheel king. This temple is dedicated to reincarnation. Anyone who is sent to die must first report to God Meng Po and fill a bucket of "ecstasy soup" to make them forget their past lives before they can be released. Meng Po, the guardian of the last level of the underworld, is an indispensable figure among the six divisions in The Wheel of Karma.
As for the origin of Meng Po, according to the Biography of Jade Calendar, Meng Po was a virgin who was chaste as jade. Because of her good health, she was old and immortal. Later, she was chosen by God to play the ghost filled with ecstasy soup:
Meng Po was born before the Han Dynasty. When he was a child, he read Confucian books and recited Buddhist scriptures. He doesn't consider the past and the future, but only advises people to stop killing and be vegetarian. He was a virgin from 8/kloc-0 to 82 years old. He was only known as Meng, so people called him Grandma Meng Po. By the end of the Han Dynasty, some people in the world knew the karma of previous lives and mistook their families in previous lives. It is the heaven mentioned above that ordered Meng's daughter to be a ghost, and used secular medical skills to synthesize a soup that resembles wine instead of wine, which is divided into five flavors: sweet, bitter, pungent, sour and salty, and sent all spirits to drink this soup, so that they could forget everything in their previous lives. If a sly ghost refuses to drink, he is ordered to swallow it with a copper tube.
This shows how hard it is for people who create a hell world, because on the one hand, they want to tell the world that there is such a hell world underground, so as to punish evil and promote good, but stubborn people will not easily believe what they have experienced together, so these people tell people that they don't know the hell world because they drank Meng Po's ecstasy soup. In that case, how can these people know about the existence of hell? So they started from people's experience: since people on the ground can make mistakes, officials in the underground can also make mistakes. This mistake is to choose the wrong name, put the souls who shouldn't go to hell by mistake, and finally let them come back, so the secret of hell will be revealed to the world.
Meng Po's daily workload should be extremely huge, in order to fill every soul entrusted with ecstasy soup. Under such circumstances, there are still so many souls entrusted with their lives who don't drink Meng Po's ecstasy soup. Although it is Meng Po's dereliction of duty, it seems to be excusable. In the Qing Dynasty, it was said that the commander in chief of Fu Xuan was Jin Hu, and his little wife died suddenly. At the same time, 80 miles away, a fellow villager gave birth to a baby girl who could talk after birth. She said to people, "I am Jin Hu's second wife." People realized that she was born to Jin Hu's little wife, so they called her "the mother of past lives". She told people about the situation in the underworld, which is quite similar to that in the world. She also said: "I had to drink ecstasy soup before I died." I was about to drink when suddenly a dog came and kicked the soup over. " I don't drink, so I remember all my past lives. "