Corpse is a superstition. Corpse, in the historical data of China, is often recorded. The so-called corpse refers to the sudden resurrection of a dead body due to some external factors, but this resurrected dead body has lost its humanity and is just an unconscious walker.
This statement is quite popular among the people, so the third article in the book Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio by Pu Songling, a writer in the Qing Dynasty, tells a story about corpse change.
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Legend and story: Carcass is a kind of corpse change, and generally does not take the initiative to harm people like shadowing corpses. The so-called corpse change is that when people are in the transitional period between life and death, that is, the stage of the yin body called in Buddhism, they are affected by some external force, and there are 18 kinds of external forces, which lead to 18 kinds of corpse changes.
For example, on a moonless night, a negative cat happens to jump over the heart of a corpse at this time, which will lead to fraudulent corpse. There are many examples of this among the people. Others only appear in certain areas, such as walking corpses, which only appear in Xiangxi area. It is a kind of herbal medicine originated from Miao family, which can be applied to the nose and mouth of the body of the Yin body, so that it can continue to walk like ordinary people at night, but it can't talk and think, and it can obediently obey the command of the corpse driver.