Category: Life >> Food/Cooking Analysis: It is said that Po Meng was born in the Western Han Dynasty. She studied Confucian books since she was a child. When she grew up, she began to recite Buddhist scriptures.

When she was still alive, she never recalled the past and never thought about the future. She just wholeheartedly advised people not to kill but to be vegetarian.

Until she was eighty-one years old, she was still a virgin.

She only knew her surname was Meng, so people called her "Lao Nai Meng".

Later, Mrs. Meng went to the mountains to practice Buddhism until the Later Han Dynasty.

Because at that time, people who knew the causes of previous lives often revealed the secrets of heaven. Therefore, God specially appointed Mrs. Meng as the God of the Netherworld and built a memorial platform for her.

It is said in the Yama Sutra that after the ghosts have been punished in each hall, they are sent to the next hall in order, and finally transferred to the tenth hall and delivered to the wheel-turning king.

The tenth hall is in charge of the reincarnation of ghosts. All ghosts sent here to prepare for reincarnation will first be taken to the Forgetting Platform controlled by the God Meng Po to drink mist soup to make the ghosts forget their previous lives.

According to legend, the method of making Mengpo soup is to first take the ghosts who are judged in the Tenth Palace to be sent to various places to become human beings, and then add medicinal materials collected from the world to mix it into a wine-like soup with five flavors: sweet, bitter, pungent, sour, and salty.

All ghosts who are ready to be reincarnated must drink Meng Po's ecstasy soup. If there is a cunning ghost that refuses to drink, a hook knife will appear under its feet to trap its feet, and a sharp copper pipe will pierce its throat, forcing it to

No ghost is immune to the intoxication of sex.

Meng Po opened a Meng Po shop in the underworld, and the place where she lived was called Meng Po Village.

There is a story about Meng Po Zhuang in Volume 8 of "Xie Feng" written by Shen Qifeng of the Qing Dynasty: Ge Sheng returned to life without drinking the ecstasy soup. Once upon a time there was a singing prostitute named Lan Rui, who had a flower-like sister Yu Rui.

Yu Rui and Ge Sheng fell in love deeply, but Ge Sheng was very poor and could not afford to marry Yu Rui. Later Lan Rui died of illness, and Ge Sheng died in love because he was unable to stay with Yu Rui for a lifetime.

After Ge Sheng died, he came to the underworld. King Yama saw that he died innocently and sentenced him to be reborn as a human being.

After hearing the order, Ge Sheng prepared to reincarnate again.

Ge Sheng was walking alone in a daze, and suddenly came under a shed covered with rose vines.

I saw hundreds of men and women scrambling to grab the ladles and hurriedly scooping water from the stove to drink.

Ge Sheng was tired from walking and felt his mouth was dry, so he also wanted to go up and drink the water in the gourd.

At this time, a woman came out from behind the shed. Ge Sheng took a closer look and saw that it was Lan Rui.

Lan Rui asked him why he came here, and Ge Sheng told her everything.

After Lan Rui found out, she gently said to Ge Sheng, "Don't you know this is Meng Po Village? Fortunately, today Meng Po went to wish Mrs. Kou a birthday and ordered me to be in charge of the ladle temporarily. If you are like those people, you will also

If you drink the ecstasy soup in this gourd, you will have no way to return to life." Ge Sheng couldn't help but feel happy after hearing this.

Later, under Lan Rui's guidance, Ge Sheng found the old path and returned to the world.

There are beautiful women drinking tea at Meng Po Village. In addition, in the "Meng Po Soup" in "Wu Xia Proverbs" written by Wang Youguang of the Qing Dynasty, there is also a description of ghosts being given ecstasy soup: After a person dies, the first thing he passes by is Meng Po Village.

The soldiers escorted the ghost past the wall of Meng Po Village to the Hall of the King of Hell for interrogation.

After the judgment, the merits and demerits during the lifetime will be recorded in the transfer book.

All ghosts who are sentenced to reincarnation will walk back from Meng Po Village.

At the door of Meng Po Village, an old woman stood there to greet visitors, who walked up the stairs and entered.

The villa is full of carved beams, painted pillars and red balustrades; inside the house, there are exquisite and gorgeous furnishings everywhere, including curtains made of pearls and jade, and a large table carved with jade is placed in the hall.

After the visitor entered the house, the old woman called out three girls. These three girls were Meng Jiang, Meng Yong and Meng Ge.

The three of them were all wearing red skirts and tops with green sleeves hanging down. They were all as beautiful as flowers and jade, and they were as beautiful as heavenly beings. They called to the husband in a soft voice, and even brushed the mat with their hands to invite the guest to sit down.

After the visitor sat down, the maid served tea.

There were three beauties standing by, all offering tea with their slender jade fingers. The jade rings jingled and the fragrance was overwhelming. In such a situation, it was really hard to refuse to drink.

As soon as I took the tea cup, I felt dizzy. I took a sip and felt it was extremely cool. It could quench my thirst and I couldn't help but drink it all.

At the end of the drink, I suddenly saw about a spoonful of turbid mud settling at the bottom of the cup. When I looked up, I found that the originally beautiful and charming beauty and the old woman had become frozen skeletons.

When I walked out the door, I saw that the original carved beams and painted buildings were all rotten wood. It was like being in the wilderness and forgetting everything in my life.