Tongue ploughing

Translation

Retribution for encouraging litigation

See also the tongue ploughing scene in the third hell.


Appearance in a Taiwanese visit to hell

For a description of tongue ploughing from a Taiwanese spiritual medium who had engaged in a series of hell tours between 1976 and 1979, see Voyages to hell, Chapter 47.



A second example of tongue ploughing from another hell scroll (E4).

Feng tongue
Tongue ploughing in the late Qing woodblock text Fengxing jueshi zhenjing 奉行覺世真經 (1882).
Tian tongue
Tongue ploughing (alongside plucking out the eyeballs) in the late Qing wall poster Tiantang diyu tu 天堂地獄圖 (Guangxu period – 1875-1908).

Tongue ploughing as depicted at Fengdu, the City of Ghosts.