Classical Chinese describes zombies
In unofficial history in the Qing Dynasty, there was a zombie story in the narrative (the author was the owner of Dong Xuan). Roughly speaking, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small village built on the mountain in the west of southern Hunan. A rogue in the village was poisoned by ptomaine for robbing a tomb and was rescued by an old man, but was beaten by the whole village for doing something wrong again and then left to fend for itself in the grass in the back hill. A few days later, he asked for help again, but this time no one wanted to help him. The villagers beat him and tied him to a tree. Although some people spoke out to discourage it, no one paid attention. Finally, he died in a tree. In the evening, the villagers wanted to bury him, but they found the body missing. Finally he came back and killed the whole village. The villagers were bitten and turned into zombies. Some villagers who left in time turned into zombies when they visited the village in the morning.
[Edit this paragraph] Origin 1
The word "zombie" comes from "Mainland Thousand", a Taoist book. Zombies mean: stiff limbs, no bow. Eyes are not oblique. The legs are not divided, and the body is not rotten.
Zombies prevailed after the middle of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Most people recorded zombies in Qing Dynasty, and Yuan Mei's Woods Language and Ji Xiaolan's Notes on Yuewei Caotang were the first two, which can be said to be complete works of zombies.
The theory of corpse removal in western Hunan, also known as the theory of moving souls, belongs to the You Zhu family in Maoshan, and originated in Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Xupu counties in western Hunan. When the body was not rotted, it was rushed back to the village by the warlock. Corpse hunters and magicians travel in small groups. Some of them tied the bodies with ropes every few feet, and then put yellow paper symbols on their foreheads. Others beat gongs to clear the way and row boats at night. Throw away the stack before dawn, uncover the paper, stand against the wall and continue on the road at night.
It was also pointed out that the corpse driver actually carried the corpse, but because he was dressed in black at night, passers-by naturally couldn't see the corpse driver and thought there was a corpse.
[Edit this paragraph] Origin 2
According to Hunan folklore, zombies were first used for drug trafficking. A man dressed as a Taoist is a drug dealer. As mentioned above, they walked in groups of three or five, but instead of tying the body with a rope, they put the body on the shoulders of the former and later generations with wooden sticks, so that it seemed that the body could walk. Ring the bell, yellow paper symbol, all to hide people's eyes and ears. This method is a good method for drug trafficking, because ordinary people dare not approach it, and officers and men are unlucky. Walking at night is good for preserving the body. Of course, drugs such as opium can be stored in the body, which is safer.
Another name
Move a corpse, walk a shadow, walk a corpse.
The concept of corpse change
The Notes of Yuewei Caotang divides the corpse into two reasons: the sudden change of the new corpse and the long-term burial without decay.
Vegetarian meal in a corpse, 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. There is also this sentence in Feng Shui.
When I was a child, I heard the old man say that people who were born on red sand day, died on black sand day and were buried in flying sand would become zombies. "Sand-flying land" means "soil pH is extremely unbalanced, which is not suitable for organic matter growth")
It is rumored that Taoism has the method of refining the Taiyin. When a body is buried for hundreds of years, it will come back to life at the expiration. The dead body is possessed by evil things/spirits, and the body absorbs the yang, which makes the body change when people are angry. When a person dies, the soul is scattered and stagnated.
Yuan Mei's Woods Speech: The human soul is good and evil, but the human soul is ignorant, and the soul dominates the human body. When the soul leaves the human body, it will become an evil spirit zombie.