Reporter Tian Weiwei / Comprehensive Report
Tainan Art Museum launched the "Zombie Exhibition", lifelike zombie photos in the Internet discussion degree burst, the photo of zombies lined up, as the scene of "Xiangxi exorcism" really happened in reality, but also the classic scene of Lin Zhengying's zombie series of movies, "Exorcism" has been restored, in fact, this horror custom is derived from the mainland Xiangxi, and Maoshan witchcraft, rumors allow dead people to act on their own, is one of the "Three Evils of Xiangxi".
The South American Pavilion previewed the "Hell Exhibition", which made netizens riot and praise. (Photo/Photo:Tainan Art Museum))
In the 1980s, a large number of zombie-themed movies were filmed in Hong Kong, such as "Mr. Zombie" starring Lin Zhengying and "Exorcist", which have restored the process of exorcising corpses, Hong Kong star Chen You also has a corpse exorcism section in "Uncle Zombie", and in 2001, Luo Jialiang, Yuan Hua and Yuan Qiongdan also performed "Mr. Corpse Chaser", telling about the culture of exorcism.
Chen You's "Uncle Zombie" filmed Xiangxi chasing corpses. (Photo/Photo from Weibo)
Lin Zhengying's "Exorcist Daochang" filmed Xiangxi exorcising corpses. (Photo/Photo from Weibo)
Also because of the blessing of Hong Kong films, let the outside world always think that these corpses are terrible zombies that can be briefly resurrected at night, the most familiar are zombies wearing Qing Dynasty costumes, yellow spells on their foreheads, hands raised forward, with the ringing bells of the Taoists in front, jumping forward one by one, so they are covered with mystery.
In fact, the real existence of the corpse-catching culture, originating from the mainland Xiangxi, is considered to be a kind of Maoshan witchcraft culture, prevailed in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, so far more than 200 years, mostly in the middle of the night, walking mostly mountain roads, not often seen, that year due to inconvenient transportation, in order to let the people who died in foreign places can go home and bury, there is a corpse-catching industry, the corpse-chasing people in addition to must be bold, but also must be 16 years old, the height must be at least 170, and finally can not look too good," it is said that the reason is that "ghosts are more afraid of people who don't look good."
Xiangxi chased away the corpse. (Photo/Photo from Weibo/I'm a jack-of-all-trades)
So far, there is still the last body exorcist in Xiangxi, named Tian Tiewu, for the outside world's various myths about the exorcism of the corpse, he explained that in fact, when they were carrying the body, they put a thick and long bamboo through the armpits of the corpse, so that the corpses could be lined up one by one, and the hands were placed on the bamboo to be lifted flat, and the team would be responsible for carrying the bamboo front and back end transportation, because the bamboo had toughness, so when the team marched, the corpse would shake up and down, plus the sky was dark, which would make people misunderstand that the corpse jumped and jumped.
Tian Tiewu said that the body removal team basically has at least 4 people, namely the lamplighter, the body guide, the corpse supporter, the corpse chaser, the general corpse supporter will have 2 to 3 people, so as not to overload, the lamplighter must be familiar with the route, and in the front responsible for opening the way, the body guide and the corpse chaser is the management team, the corpse catcher will take the whip to whip the ground, so that the people in front of the team know the distance and situation of the team.
Xiangxi chased away the corpse. (Photo/Photo from Weibo/I'm a jack-of-all-trades)