Fengdu - The Ghost City

Fengdu is an ancient city built in the hills facing the Yangtze River. In Spring and Autumn Period (770 B.C - 476 B.C) in Chinese history. it was called "The Other Capital of the Ba nationality". In the second year of Yongyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220) when Emperor He reigned over China. the area was specially separated out from the then Zhi County and a new county named Fengdu County was thus established. It has a history of over 1900 years now.

As the place of nether world, Fengdu, a pearl along the Yangtze, a renowned, distinctive historic and cultural city from the ancient time on, is famous at home and abroad for its rich ghost culture. There many ghost stories spread far and wide Many famous literary works such as "The Pilgrimage to the West", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "The Stories of Zhongkui", etc. have vivid legendary descriptions about the ghost city Fengdu.

The main scenic spots in Fengdu are the Mingshan Hill which was appointed as one of the national key relics in the Three Gorges area along the Yangtze River, Shuangguishan National Forest Park which is famous for its gardening beauty, "the Ghost Land & God Palace" and "the Judicial Street in the Nether world" modeled after its ancient structure which are the largest ghost culture spots in the country and also the largest dynamic tourist spots in Southwest China. The Huinan Han Graves with their grand and peculiar structure, high density, long history and high cultural value, the Grand Ghost Stone Carving under construction, the Siping Forest Park with low sea level, Sanfu Virgin Forest Center, Longhe Scenic Spot (stalactite cave, boating), and other natural scenic spots.