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What are the five gods in ancient Chinese mythology?

1. Judges

The Judges are located in the Hall of Heavenly Sons of Fengdu and are responsible for judging the ghosts that come to the underworld. The four Judges in the Hall of King Yama belong to the Department of Rewarding the Good, the Department of Punishing the Evil, the Department of Yin Laws, and the Department of Investigation. Nowadays, some people regard the Department of Yin Law as the life-altering Judge Cui Bian, which is the original Cui Bian in the Yin-Yang realm moved here, and the most famous four judges are: Reward and Good, Punish and Punish Evil, Check and Check, and Judge Cui.

2, the night fork

Night fork from the earliest ancient Indian mythology, in which refers to the class of demi-gods, the god of wealth Kubira's attendants, guarding its gardens in the Girasa mountain and the wealth of the mountain. According to the Book of Vishnu's Pastimes, the nightshade and the rakshasa were born at the same time to the lord of birth, the mendicant, or in the paws of the great Brahma, and both were usually hostile to each other.

3. Bull's Head and Horse's Face

The Bull's Head and Horse's Face is taken from the image of a soul-snatcher in traditional Chinese culture. According to the Iron City Mud Li Sutra, when A Pang was a human being, he was unfilial to his parents, and after his death, he was a bull-headed man in the underworld, serving as a yamen who patrolled and searched for escaped sinners. Some sources say that Buddhism initially had only bull's head, and when it was introduced to China, it was matched with horse's face due to the fact that Chinese folk are most concerned about symmetry and becoming a pair.

4, chi-mei

Chi-mei (sound eat sister), also known as demons, is the forest in the mountains of the foreign gas born of the ghosts and monsters, killing invisible.

5. Nine Tails

The demon fox with nine tails on Qingqiu Mountain eats people and sounds like a baby. (See the "Classic of the Mountains and Seas", "Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Annals" said: Tushan clan is a nine-tailed white fox descendants, Dayu water when a white fox called female Jiao saw him, love at first sight, sang: "Sui-Sui-White Fox, allergic allergy. I am allergic to allergies. I am allergic to allergies. I am allergic to allergies." The two of them fell in love and were married on Mount Tu.