Lin Zhengying's zombie films have given us many beautiful and terrifying memories of childhood. His films always cute zombies, and each zombie is a zombie with character feelings, not as intimidating as other zombie films. When we watch his movies, we will find that the zombies in it are all wearing the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty, why is this?
According to everyone's general view, zombies are dead people who are too resentful, dead and blind, and long-term accumulation eventually becomes a zombie. Zombies are physical, and there is an essential difference between them and ghosts, so zombies will have a lot of physical contact with people. Bad zombies will eat people or bite humans, causing humans to change. Good zombies will be on the side of people and hostile to bad zombies.
Such records of zombies first appear in novels of the late Ming Dynasty. Most of the Zhiwei novels before the Ming Dynasty basically did not write about the scene of a mutated corpse turning into a zombie. Zombie novels originated in the late Ming Dynasty, and after the development of the times, they became popular in the Qing Dynasty, and the zombie image began to be widely aborted and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In the Novel "Zi Bu Shu" by the Qing Dynasty writer Yuan Ming, there is a description of zombies. It depicts not only the shape of the zombie, but also the habits of the zombies, and a series of stories produced by zombies and humans. The most famous Zhiwei novel "Liaozhai Zhiyi" also has a large number of depictions of ghosts, including a large number of zombies wearing Qing Dynasty official uniforms.
Secondly, the image of the zombie is also related to the custom of exorcising corpses in the Xiangxi region of Hunan Province, China, and the prototype of the zombie is inextricably linked to the exorcism of the corpse in Xiangxi. In western Hunan Province, if people who go out to do business or work die of illness or injury, they are carried back to their hometowns by their companions, just like in the movie "Falling Leaves To the Roots". But sometimes in a disaster year, or a part-time job encounters an accident, which will cause a large number of deaths, at this time, there are a large number of corpses that need to be carried back.
The workload of this work was too large, so it was rumored that professional exorcists appeared in Xiangxi. A lot of corpses are driven back, and the corpses can jump back under the expulsion of the corpses, and this work can only be carried out at night, so it is very mysterious. The phenomenon of exorcising corpses appeared in the Qing Dynasty, so it has to be said that the exorcism of corpses and the zombie image of the Qing Dynasty are more or less related.
Moreover, most of our modern zombie films are Hong Kong film and television works. Hong Kong was ceded during the Qing Dynasty, and they saw qing officials as corrupt and incompetent. So by making zombie films, the zombies were dressed in the costumes of Qing officials to show the irony of Qing officials and the government.
Finally, the official palaces of the Qing Dynasty were not as colorful as the official uniforms of the previous dynasties, such as the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty looked darker overall, looked more dull and depressing, and were easier to show the horrors of zombies. According to today's Qing Dynasty, people see more palace dramas, and the official palace of the Qing Dynasty is more able to resonate with people.
Therefore, in summary, the official clothes of the Qing Dynasty appeared in zombie films for a series of reasons. Lin Zhengying has passed away, but the zombie image in his movie has left a deep impression on our minds. For zombies, what do you think, welcome to leave a message.