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The belief in jiangshi and its representation in the popular imagination was also partly derived from the habit of "corpse-driving", [6] [7] a practice involving the repatriation of the corpses of dead laborers across Xiang province (present-day Hunan) to their hometowns for burial in family gravesites. The corpses were trussed up against ...
During the Qing Dynasty in Xiangxi, Taoist priests working as corpse herders guide the dead back home to their burial place by using Maoshan arts to cast incantations on jiangshi ("stiff corpses") to animate their movement, but due to the onset of rigor mortis, the dead travel by hopping.
One year the ritual is botched, causing one adult jiangshi and one child jiangshi to rise from the grave. A traveling Taoist named Ku-Su warns the villagers and even attempts to fight the child jiangshi, but local orphans from Yuen Cheung-Yan's Peking Opera see this and take the child jiangshi into their protection, mistaking Ku-Su for a villain.
Jiangshi fiction, or goeng-si fiction in Cantonese, is a literary and cinematic genre of horror based on the jiangshi of Chinese folklore, a reanimated corpse controlled by Taoist priests that resembles the zombies and vampires of Western fiction.
The corpse and the two end up separated during the chaos, and they land in Africa. The corpse lands in front of Xixo , where he and his tribe are being confronted by a rival clan led by two greedy Caucasians. The corpse's presence scares away the villains. Xixo somehow learns to control the corpse using a bell and he takes it to his tribe.
Bee is rescued by her jiangshi friend, but Bee's mother is trapped in the house when she attempts to rescue Bee, leaving Daiyu in a depressed state. A Japanese student named Hashimoto Yuko arrives in the village to study kung fu, and becomes Daiyu's pupil. Bee introduces her jiangshi friend to Daiyu, whose beliefs about jiangshi change.
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The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...