[Tradition] Characters in Chinese ghost month--ghost police

Left: 七qī 爺yé     Right:  八bā 爺yé 

The white one called  謝xiè 必bì 安ān (七qī 爺yé ), who is tall and skinny .
The black one called  范fàn 無wú 救jiù (八bā 爺yé ),who is short and fat.

This two guys called  黑hēi 白bái 無wú 常cháng (Black and white impermanence)  or 七qī 爺yé 八bā 爺yé  (Seven and Eight Lord ), they are always put in the Cheng-Huang temple.  They are two of traditional Gods in Chinese culture, their job is like police to arrest ghost ,they also have right like procurator in the ghost world.

There is a story about them in Chinese myths:

They were police who escorted prisoner, but they lost them. They decided to separate and search them, so they make a meet point under a bridge.

On the meet time, 謝xiè 必bì 安ān  could’t make there because of big rain.  范fàn 無wú 救jiù was waiting under the bridge ,even the river became strong. He would’t leave because the promise, so he were drowned in water.When  謝xiè 必bì 安ān  arrived there and find out his friend die in water, he was too sorrow to hang himself.

(You can watch the white one , his tongue is long because he hang himself.)
The God of heaven saw it and touched, so he gave them a position in the God’s world.