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Jiangshi

También llamado: 殭屍, 僵尸, chiang-shih, geung si, kyonshī, gangsi
Folclore y mitosNo muertoSaltaUna mala muerte o un entierro chapuceroDe 1500 a 1899

The jiangshi is the reanimated corpse of Chinese folklore, a rigid body driven by the residue of its own soul to attack the living and drain their vital energy. It was described in detail by Qing-dynasty writers and explained by the Dutch sinologist J. J. M. de Groot through the Chinese dread of delayed burial and exposed corpses. Hong Kong cinema of the 1980s turned it into the hopping, talisman-stuck figure known worldwide. Mindless, physically decayed and stopped only by ritual or force, it is East Asia's main native counterpart to the zombie.12

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Primer registro
1789
Discussed in Ji Xiaolan's Yuewei Caotang Biji (c. 1789-1798) and Yuan Mei's Zi Bu Yu
Origen
Chinese
China, Hong Kong, Taiwán
Qué lo causa
Una mala muerte o un entierro chapucero
Qing writers explain it by the body's lower soul (po) staying behind after the higher soul (hun) has left, especially when burial is delayed or the death was improper.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A corpse left unburied, struck by lightning or jumped over by a cat may rise; so may a suicide or a body revived by sorcery.
Cómo se mueve
Salta
Modern depictions have it hop with arms outstretched; in older accounts it runs its victims down, and very old ones can fly.
Inteligencia
Sin cerebro
Puntos débiles
  • a paper talisman (fulu) fixed to the forehead
  • peach wood
  • mirrors
  • a rooster's crow
  • glutinous rice
  • black dog's blood
  • fire
  • seven jujube stones nailed into the back (Yuan Mei)
  • holding one's breath, since it is blind and tracks by breathing
  • a raised door threshold

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1789

Discussed in Ji Xiaolan's Yuewei Caotang Biji (c. 1789-1798) and Yuan Mei's Zi Bu Yu

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The name means 'stiff corpse'12

2

Folklore describes greenish-white skin, sometimes furred with mould, and anything from fresh rigor to advanced decay12

3

It kills with brute strength and absorbs its victims' qi; blood-drinking is a modern borrowing from Western vampires12

4

Ji Xiaolan distinguished the newly dead who revive from long-buried corpses that never decay12

5

The Qing official's robe and hat became standard through the Hong Kong film Mr. Vampire and its sequels12

6

The hop may derive from the Xiangxi trade of carrying corpses home upright on bamboo poles12

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (salta), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Jiangshi unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  1. Jiangshi - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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Misma época: De 1500 a 1899

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