"In ancient China, the world after death appears to have been simply an extension of the mortal world," says Pu Mu-chou, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology. He feels that these dark realms did not have the "distinguishing feature" of a heaven: that of being better than the mortal world.
「中國古代的死後世界看來只是人世的延伸」，中研院史語所研究員蒲慕州認為，冥界不具比人間更好的這一天堂「特質」。