Classification of Zombies in China
China's zombie theory prevailed after the middle of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, there were many records about zombies, among which the Meridian Rain by Yuan Mei and Yuewei Caotang Notes by Ji Xiaolan were the most prominent. Some people call these two books "Zombies".
Zombies have three nicknames: walking dead, walking shadow and walking dead.
Then, Yuewei Caotang Notes divides the reason why the corpse becomes a zombie into two items: the sudden change of the new corpse and the long-term burial without decay.
1. corpse scene, which is more scientific? The pH of soil is extremely unbalanced, which is not suitable for the growth of organic matter, so it will not breed ants and bacteria. Even if the body is buried for a hundred years, the muscle hair will not rot. Some data show that the hair and nails of the corpse will continue to grow. This kind of corpse is called shadow corpse, which is a transitional form between corpse and zombie. If left untreated, you will soon become a zombie. There is also this sentence in Feng Shui.
2. It is said that Taoism has the method of refining the moon, and the body will be resurrected after being buried for hundreds of years.
The newly dead body is possessed by evil things/pathogens.
4. The body absorbs the yang, which makes people angry and changes the body.
When a person dies, the soul is scattered and stagnated.
6. People are buried after death.
Yuan Mei's "Woods Language" also said: "A person's soul has good and evil, but a person's soul is stupid." The soul dominates the human body, leaving the human body will become an evil ghost zombie.
It is said that zombies are monsters influenced by the essence of the sun and the moon.
The meridian rain divides zombies into eight varieties: purple stiff, white stiff, green stiff, hairy stiff (hairy), flying stiff (flying but afraid of fire), wandering corpse, lying corpse and boneless. These eight kinds of zombies are worse and worse.
In addition, there is another classification of zombies, which has a similar intersection with the meridian rain.
The idea of this classification is that zombies can enhance their abilities through certain conditions, which is, in layman's terms, an upgrade in modern languages. Its zombie are divided into that follow six levels:
First, it is "white stiff". After the corpse entered the morgue, it began to grow white hair all over 1 month. This kind of zombie is slow and very easy to deal with. It is extremely afraid of sunshine, fire, water, chickens and dogs, and even more afraid of people.
The second is "black strength." If you are a cattle and sheep in Xue Jing, you will lose all your white hair in a few years, and it will be replaced by a few inches of black hair. At this time, you are still afraid of sunshine and fire, and your movements are slow. But at first, you were not afraid of making trouble. Generally speaking, black is stiff, and people shrink back and dare not fight directly. You often eat people's blood in your sleep (black-and-white stiffness is collectively called "black-and-white stiffness"). Tens of thousands of incidents of' unknown blood-sucking creatures' attacking livestock have been reported in villages and farms all over the world, and some even think that' savage' is black-and-stiff;
The third type is "jumping corpse". Decades later, the black hair was removed, and the movement began to focus on jumping, fast and far. It is afraid of the sun, people and any livestock (dogs that usually bark will not bark once they encounter "black stiffness" or "jumping corpse", and cats will bark coldly when they see zombies);
The fourth kind of "flying corpse" evolved from jumping into the moonlight. Flying corpses are often zombies for more than a hundred years or even hundreds of years. They move quickly, jump on trees, fly like flies, and suck sperm without trauma;
The fifth kind of zombies are almost possessed by demons, and they are called "Hiderigami", "fire" and "dry". After hundreds of years, flying corpses have become more and more ferocious, which can be described as Luo Cha with green face and fangs. He can also change his body shape and appearance to confuse everyone. He can kill dragons and dry the sky.
The last and most terrible zombie, it should be said, is no longer a "corpse", but a demon king, who has the terrorist power to challenge God. It is said that there was only one such demon king in China for thousands of years or even thousands of years. Thousands of years ago, it was used as a mount by Guanyin Bodhisattva, which was called "Cheng".
In addition to the above classification, you may see other classification methods in movies or TV, such as different colors of eyes. In fact, they are only derivative classifications in individual films or literary works.