How do zombies form and what are their characteristics?
the formation of zombies
zombies are jumping corpses. China's first zombies were all angry and angry because they died unsatisfied, and they could absorb the moon's yin. Zombies will be infected with ptomaine or the geomantic properties of cemeteries, resulting in necrophilia. Later versions are mixed with western vampire elements, using claws as weapons and biting the neck to suck blood. When others are sucked or scratched, they will be infected with ptomaine and eventually die as another zombie. Those who are newly infected with ptomaine can be treated with glutinous rice.
Zombies are usually stiff, with black and sharp nails, sharp canine teeth and fear of the sun. Hiding in damp and dark places such as coffins and caves during the day, haunting at night, feeding on human blood or livestock blood, being aggressive and powerful to living things, and reaching forward with both hands when jumping forward.
Zombies' characteristics
In terms of eating
Zombies can not only absorb the essence of the sun and the moon to nourish their bodies, but also suck blood from people like western vampires. People think that zombies suck blood to suck each other's blood as food. In zombie movies, blood-sucking is almost a necessary 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? .
In terms of activities
Zombies can only come out at night, and Feng Shui zombies belong to yin, even to yin. And light belongs to yang, to the thing of yang. Yin and Yang are incompatible, and zombies can also come out during the day. Maoshan warlocks need to put a light-avoiding spell on zombies (see Ching-Ying Lam movie).
Ideologically
Although zombies can't communicate with people, they have their own feelings, but once they meet a living person, they often attack without thinking. Will consciously go to the assembled population. You can have wisdom, but you rarely use tools. I don't know why I can feel pain when I am hurt by a Taoist attack.
the method of driving away corpses
the legend of zombies appears most frequently in Xiangxi, which may originate from the local legend of driving away corpses. Xiangxi corpse-driving, also known as spirit-shifting, belongs to Maoshan Zhuyouke, which originated in Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Xupu counties in Xiangxi. When the corpse was not corrupted, it was rushed back to the township by magicians for burial. The corpse-driving magicians travel in groups of about three or five. Some of them tie the corpse with ropes every few feet, and then stick yellow paper symbols on their foreheads. Others ring gongs to open the way and walk at night. Throw the stack before dawn, uncover the paper, stand against the wall, and continue on the road at night.
the corpse driver is also called? Corpse driver? , what they catch belongs to the walkers. Usually before dawn, the body is rushed to Yizhuang, or a fixed shop. Bodies are usually covered with a wide black shroud, wearing a tall felt hat on their heads, and a few yellow papers with books on their foreheads hanging over their faces. In front of these bodies covered with black shroud, there was a living man holding a gong. He was beating the small Yin gong in his hand and leading the group of bodies forward. He didn't play lanterns, but shook an evocative bell in his hand, telling night walkers to avoid it and informing people with dogs to lock them up. If there are more than two bodies, the corpse driver will string them one by one with straw ropes, one at every seven or eight feet.
Modern theories tend to interpret corpse driving in Xiangxi as follows: in order to transport the dead, the front and rear corpse drivers actually use two long bamboos to carry the corpse on their shoulders through a row of corpse sleeves, and the two 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 will swing up and down when the corpse driver carries it, so there is an image of zombies jumping with their hands straight. At night, it looks like a group of people jumping forward with their hands stretched out and knees straight, and the legend of driving a corpse has spread like wildfire.
There is another saying that these jumping corpses are actually faked by people. Because it is unlucky to drive corpses, people just look at them from a distance, so they can't see clearly what they look like. Over time, the saying that zombies jump forward is formed.
There's another saying about the way corpse drivers work: For some reason, someone died in another place, but it's the custom in western Hunan where the dead body must be taken back to hometown and buried in the ancestral grave. The duty of the corpse driver is to divide the corpse into many pieces, carry it on his back, walk 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 the Qing Dynasty
come from the zombie images in Hong Kong movies, and Ching-Ying Lam's zombie Taoist series is famous. Such zombies are dressed in the costumes of Qing officials, with stiff knees and jumping forward. They are afraid of the sun and only act at night. People who are bitten by human blood will also become zombies, and they can be sealed by Taoist runes.
The most striking feature is that they are all blind. Zombies locate their targets through human breath, perceive their prey and chase it, so as long as they hold their breath, they can't find their prey.
some warlocks can control zombies in a specified way. If a warlock with a bad mind 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 are not properly controlled, it may be their own fault.