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In pre-Buddhist Northern Chinese beliefs, everyone's soul had two parts, the PO (the yin soul, made of earth) and the hun (the yang soul, made of qi). Both souls needed sustenance to live and when the souls died, they went to different places, with the hun going to heaven in earliest ideas, and the PO staying with the body or going to the underworld (although neither was specified as a place of reward or punishment.)
Heaven (天, tiān) is considered the source of all moral meaning and good and is the place where many gods reside (including the first god, the Jade Emperor.) Traditional Chinese religion honours many gods, and a few preside specifically over the dead, including the demigod Zhong Kui who subdues evil spirits and recruits them for a ghost army.
Some people believe that When you die, you will go to the underworld. Before you enter the underworld, you will meet an old woman who will let you drink a bowl of soup. After you have finished drinking, you will forget everything in your life.
After entering the underworld, you will be judged by the king of hell.
If you do a lot of bad things in your life, you will be punished ruthlessly (like being thrown into a boiling oil pan), and then you will be reincarnated as a beast (pig, donkey) and enslaved.
If you do a lot of good things in your life, you are judged as a good person and you will reincarnate as a rich person.
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