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Heibai Wuchang
Traditional Chinese
黑白無常
Simplified Chinese
黑白无常
Literal meaning
Black and White Impermanence
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
hēibái wúcháng
Wade–Giles
hei-pai wu-ch'ang
Wuchang Gui
Traditional Chinese
無常鬼
Simplified Chinese
无常鬼
Literal meaning
Ghost of Impermanence
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
wúcháng guǐ
Wade–Giles
wu-ch'ang kuei
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Statue of the White Guard at a temple in Taichung, Taiwan.Statue of the Black Guard at a temple in Taichung, Taiwan.Statue of the Wuchang Gui at Haw Par Villa, Singapore.
The Heibai Wuchang, or Hak Bak Mo Seong, literally "Black and White Impermanence", are two Deities in Chinese folk religion in charge of escorting the spirits of the dead to the underworld. As their names suggest, they are dressed in black and white respectively. They are subordinates of Yanluo Wang, the Supreme Judge of the Underworld in Chinese mythology, alongside the Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Hell Guards. They are worshiped as fortune deities and are also worshiped in Cheng Huang Temples in some countries.
In some instances, the Heibai Wuchang are represented as a single being – instead of two separate beings – known as the Wuchang Gui (also romanised Wu-ch'ang Kuei), literally "Ghost of Impermanence". Depending on the person it encounters, the Wuchang Gui can appear as either a fortune deity who rewards the person for doing good deeds or a malevolent deity who punishes the person for committing evil.
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