丰都大帝

丰都大帝 is one of the underworld rulers mapped in 136. 春日明媚，聊聊鬼神. The episode traces a shifting line from older northern ghost-country and mountain-death ideas through Daoist registers and later Song-era associations with Fengdu county in Chongqing. Its point is not that one version is correct, but that the figure shows Chinese Folk Religion Layering in action.

In the source, Fengdu Dadi matters because his domain is imagined administratively. The dead may need a road pass, seals, permissions, and correct procedure before moving through the underworld. This makes him a key anchor for Underworld Bureaucracy, where the other world borrows the paperwork, offices, and gatekeeping familiar from this world.

Connections

• 136. 春日明媚，聊聊鬼神 - source episode.
• Chinese Folk Religion Layering - concept explaining why Fengdu’s origins are multiple.
• Underworld Bureaucracy - main system in which Fengdu Dadi functions.
• 东岳大帝 and 阎罗王 - overlapping rulers of the dead in the episode.
• 城隍 - local underworld official whose seals and reports fit the same administrative imagination.