Zombie formation
Zombies are jumping corpses. The first zombies in China are angry because they die unsatisfied, and they can suck the yin of the moon. Zombies can be infected with ptomaine or the geomantic properties of cemeteries, leading to necrophilia. Later versions mixed western vampire elements, using claws as weapons and biting their necks to suck blood. When others are sucked or scratched, they will be infected with ptomaine and eventually die as another zombie. Those newly infected with ptomaine can be treated with glutinous rice.
Zombies usually have stiff bodies, black and sharp nails and sharp canine teeth, and are afraid of the sun. Hiding in coffins, caves and other damp and dark places during the day, haunting at night, feeding on human blood or livestock blood, being aggressive and powerful to creatures, and reaching forward with both hands when jumping forward.
Zombie characteristics
dietary respect
Zombies can not only absorb the essence of the sun and moon to nourish the body, but also suck human blood like western vampires. People think that zombies suck blood to suck each other's blood as food. In zombie movies, blood-sucking is almost an indispensable plot in the film.
At first, traditional zombies didn't actually suck blood. Until the Hong Kong film "Mr. Zombie" added the characteristics of vampires, all subsequent zombie films were like this? Oriental vampire? .
Activity aspect
Zombies can only come out at night, and feng shui zombies are yin, even yin. And light belongs to Yang, something that belongs to Yang. Yin and Yang are incompatible, and zombies can come out during the day. Maoshan warlocks need to cast a light-avoiding spell on zombies (see Ching-Ying Lam movie).
Ideological aspect
Although zombies can't communicate with people, they have their own feelings, but once they meet the living, they often attack without thinking. Will consciously gather people. You can be wise, but you seldom use tools. I don't know why I feel pain when I am attacked and hurt by Taoism.
The way to drive away the body
Zombie legends have the highest frequency in Xiangxi, which may originate from the local legend of corpse driving. Xiangxi corpse-driving, also known as soul-shifting, belongs to the tourist families of Maoshan, and originated in Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Xupu counties of Xiangxi. When the body was not corrupt, it was rushed back to the township for burial by the magician. Corpsers usually travel in small groups. Some of them tied the bodies with ropes every few feet, and then put yellow paper symbols on their foreheads. Others knock gongs to clear the way and walk at night. Throw away the stack before dawn, uncover the paper, stand against the wall and continue on the road at night.
The corpse driver is also known as? Corpse driver? What they caught belongs to the walkers. Usually before dawn, the body is rushed to Yizhuang, or a fixed shop. A corpse is usually covered with a large black shroud, with a tall felt hat on its head and yellow paper with several books hanging on its forehead. In front of these bodies covered with black shroud, there was a living man with a gong. He led the group of bodies forward with a little yin gong in his hand. He didn't play lanterns, but shook a bell that could evoke memories, told Nightcrawler to avoid it, and informed the dog owners to lock them up. If there are more than two bodies, the corpse driver will string them one by one with straw ropes, one every seven or eight feet.
Modern theory tends to interpret the corpse drive in Xiangxi as follows: in order to transport the dead, the front and back corpse drivers actually use two long bamboo poles to carry the corpse on their shoulders through a row of corpse drive sleeves, and both ends are carried by strong men like sedan chairs. However, because the corpse drivers wear black clothes at night, passers-by naturally can't see the corpse drivers and think there are zombies. Because bamboo is elastic, the corpse driver will swing up and down when carrying the corpse, so there is an image of a zombie jumping with both hands. At night, it's like a group of people stretching out their hands and jumping forward with their knees straight, and the legend of driving the body spread like wildfire.
There is also a saying that these jumping bodies are actually forged by people. Because it is unlucky to drive a corpse, people just look at it from a distance and can't see clearly what it looks like. Over time, the saying that zombies jump forward has been formed.
There is another saying that the corpse driver works: for some reason, someone died in another place, but this is the custom in Xiangxi, and the corpse must be taken back to its hometown and buried in the ancestral grave. The corpse driver's duty is to divide the corpse into many pieces, carry it on his back, go to the hometown of the deceased and then splice it into a whole corpse for burial. In order not to attract attention, most people choose to travel at night.
Zombies in Qing dynasty
In Ching-Ying Lam's zombie Taoist series, the zombie image from Hongkong movies is very famous. These zombies are dressed in official costumes, with stiff knees and jumping forward. They are afraid of the sun and only move at night. People bitten by human blood will also become zombies and can be sealed by Taoist runes.
The most striking feature is that they are all blind. Zombies locate targets, perceive prey and chase them through human breath. So, as long as they hold their breath, zombies can't find their prey.
Some warlocks can control zombies in a certain way. If a bad-minded warlock wants to get back at others and doesn't want to do it himself, he will let the controlled zombies help him. However, zombies themselves are extremely dangerous monsters. If they do not control it properly, it may be their own fault.