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E gui (traditional Chinese: 餓鬼; simplified Chinese: 饿鬼; pinyin: è guǐ; lit. 'hungry ghost') refers to ghosts driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way. They are the spirits of people who committed sins out of greed when they were alive and have been condemned to suffer in hunger after death.
鬼 ' (Mandarin pinyin: guǐ) is the general Chinese term for ghost, used in combination with other symbols to give related meanings such as guilao (鬼佬), literally "ghost man", a Cantonese pejorative term for foreigners, and mogwai (魔鬼) meaning "devil". [1]
The five- thousand-year Chinese culture, over the centuries, has produced hundreds of legends about monsters, ghosts, demons, and spirits. Many of these demons and ghosts influenced Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore folklore.
There’s a rich history of Chinese ghosts — as many as 1,520 spirits have been compiled. To celebrate the global love of ghosties and ghoulies, here is a collection of 33 creatures, spirits and demons from across Chinese folklore.
Chinese mythology recognizes a wide range of ghosts and spirits, including hungry ghosts, immortal spirits, mountain spirits, evil spirits, and ghost apparitions of deceased humans. How are ghosts and spirits exorcised in Chinese culture?
In Chinese texts, specific yao 妖 are sometimes referred to as 鬼 (gui, spectre or ghost), 怪 (guai, strange monster), 魔 (mo, demon close to the Western sense) or 邪 (xie, spiritually deviant or morally corrupt being).
Pestilence ghosts (疠鬼; lìguǐ) harbored grudges in life and can cause disease and decay. Hungry ghosts (饿鬼; èguǐ) were arrogant in life and can take on gaseous forms. Nightmare ghosts (魘鬼; yǎnguǐ) were frauds in life and can transform into pure darkness.
If you can’t tell by the name, they are the spirits of those who hanged themselves. They are depicted as terrifying ghosts with long dangling tongues. When you’re out and about in rural China ...
The Chinese word for "ghost" is 鬼 (guǐ). It is generally used to refer to the spirit of a deceased person, but it can also be used to refer to other types of supernatural creatures, such as demons and monsters. Ghosts are typically depicted as being malevolent, but they can also be benevolent.
Ghosts were taken very seriously by the ancient Chinese. In modern-day China, ghosts only have power to harm if one believes in them, but in ancient China, they were a reality whether one believed in them or laughed them off. When a person died their soul journeyed across a bridge to the afterlife.