introduction
Mei Yaochen of the Song Dynasty has a saying in the Song Dynasty's "Yi Yun and Song Zhongdao Seeing Mail": "The old and dead have filled in the ditch, and the zombie coffin is still open." "The legend of zombies has existed since ancient times. Especially during the Qing Dynasty, zombies appeared in many novels. For example, in "Zi Bu Shu" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", the appearance of zombies can be said to be very frequent, and some people even give the nickname of the two books, "Zombie Encyclopedia".
The first recorded zombie in China is actually the daughter of the Yellow Emperor, that is, the dry female fish who has no grass wherever she goes, causing a great drought in the world. After modern times, zombies have mostly appeared in film and television dramas, especially in Hong Kong dramas, zombie films have become a clear stream, attracting the attention of the audience. The zombies who wore the costumes of Qing dynasty ministers in Hong Kong films and jumped on their limbs stiffly also gave many people a nightmare childhood. In Xinjiang's Flame Mountain, 5 dry corpses were found, combing long braids and wearing hats like "zombies", and everyone was scared to call the police.
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Xinjiang Province, in northwestern China, has always been known for its hot climate and rich and delicious fruits. Especially in Xinjiang, under the influence of Xinjiang's climate with excessive temperature difference between day and night, sweetness and sugar are unique varieties, which makes people addicted. Xinjiang's natural scenery is also extremely beautiful, attracting a large number of tourists every year. When it comes to the strange beauty of Xinjiang, we have to mention the famous scenery of Xinjiang, the Flame Mountain. The flame mountains that people think of are probably the flame mountains filled with scorched earth fires all year round after they were burned by the True Fire of Samadhi in the Bagua Dan Furnace of Taishang Laojun in "Journey to the West".
In fact, Xinjiang's Flame Mountain is a volcano located in the Turpan Basin, this mountain is named Flame Mountain because of its fiery redness, which is a beautiful place in Xinjiang. However, a strange thing happened in 2009, when workers were working near the Flame Mountain, they accidentally found 5 dry bodies buried deep in the ground. These dry corpses with long pigtails and hats of the Qing Dynasty looked completely different from zombies, which frightened the workers present and panicked and called the police. After the police who arrived to test the bodies, they found that the bodies had existed for hundreds of years, so they asked the elderly archaeologists to test the bodies.
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After some exploration, experts concluded that these dried corpses were all people during the Qing Dynasty, and judging from the dress, it is estimated that the merchants who came here to trade wanted to earn money and go home to enjoy a good life, but they died unexpectedly here. Thanks to xinjiang's dry climate, the body did not decompose in the end, but gradually lost moisture and became a dry corpse, which was found again hundreds of years later. Therefore, in fact, they are not zombies, just ordinary people dressed like zombies.
When it comes to dry corpses, the first thing that people think of is the mummy of the dried corpse after treatment in the Egyptian pyramids, and there are actually many movies about the mummification of mummies, which shows that the human imagination is indeed infinite. But what the experts are concerned about is why these merchants were killed in the Flame Mountain, knowing that the Qing Dynasty already had troops in Xinjiang at that time, and to a certain extent, also provided protection measures for these merchants, were they killed, or did they die accidentally in the wilderness? We don't know this, hundreds of years later, in addition to the corpse still exists, other evidence items have dissipated, and it is really difficult to know the truth.
In fact, not only China, but also Western countries have records of depictions of zombies, but they call zombies zombies, and they are also a group of walking dead who have lost their minds, relying solely on instinct and yearning for human flesh and blood. It can be seen that even if the cultures are different, the two sides have something in common in the description of some things, but the Chinese zombies and the Western zombies are still very different.
epilogue
In fact, the ancients have always been convinced of strange and chaotic things, people at that time did not understand science, after seeing many things that can not be judged by common sense, the way of thinking will be completely different. There is a saying in the "Soldier Carriage Line": "The new ghosts are annoyed with the old ghosts crying, and the rain and wet chirping." "The ancients, who have always believed in ghosts and ghosts, naturally have no doubt about the existence of zombies.
bibliography:
Mei Yaochen's "Yi Yun and Song Zhongdao See Mail"
"Soldier Carriage Line"