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Jiangshi legends have inspired a genre of jiangshi films and literature in Hong Kong and the rest of East Asia. Movies such as Mr. Vampire and its various spin-offs Mr. Vampire II , Mr. Vampire III , and Mr. Vampire IV became cult classics in comedy-horror and inspired a short-lived vampire craze in East Asia, including Taiwan and Japan.
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.
Jiangshi, a hopping vampire. Jiaolong, a hornless scaled dragon. Jin Chan, a prosperity frog. Jingwei, a bird who is determined to dry up the sea. It was morphed from a girl who drowned in the sea. Jiufeng or Nine-headed Bird, an earlier version of the Fenghuang. Jinnalaluo, divine creatures with human bodies and animal heads.
Jiangxi [a] is an inland province of East China.Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. [6]
Fulu for placement above the primary entrance of one's home, intended to protect against evil. Fulu (traditional Chinese: 符籙; simplified Chinese: 符箓; pinyin: fúlù) are Taoist magic symbols and incantations, [1] [2] translatable into English as 'talismanic script', [a] which are written or painted on talismans by Taoist practitioners.
The first several decades of vampire movies were tasked with establishing many of the tropes and narratives that would endure for decades to come.
Jiangshi, a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jianshi .
Ancient porcelain shop in Jingdezhen.. The history of Jiangxi stretches from Lower Paleolithic times to the present, as Jiangxi was already inhabited by humans one million years ago. [1]