ZombieWiki
Zombie Wiki / Zombie nyinaa / Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛm
Illustration of Jiangshi
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Fael Nɔma 049 wɔ 446 mu

Jiangshi

Wɔfrɛ no bio: 殭屍, 僵尸, chiang-shih, geung si, kyonshī, gangsi
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐhuruhuruwOwuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie1500 kɔsi 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

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1789
Discussed in Ji Xiaolan's Yuewei Caotang Biji (c. 1789-1798) and Yuan Mei's Zi Bu Yu
Mfiase
Chinese
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Deɛ ɛde ba
Owuo bɔne anaa ayie a ɛnkɔɔ yie
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.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
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.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛhuruhuruw
Modern depictions have it hop with arms outstretched; in older accounts it runs its victims down, and very old ones can fly.
Nyansa
Adwene nni mu
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • 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

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1789

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

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

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

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛhuruhuruw), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Jiangshi bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

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

Asɛm biara a ɛwɔ krataafa yi so fi saa fibea yi mu, na yɛde yɛn ankasa nsɛm na akyerɛw. Wohunuu mfomsoɔ bi? Ka kyerɛ yɛn wɔ [email protected].

Ma dɔm no aduane. Dawurubɔ nni hɔ, trackers nni hɔ, onipa baako na ɔtua ho ka. Akyɛdeɛ ma ɛkɔ so wɔ intanɛt so.Ma akyɛdeɛ

Tete nsɛm a efi nsase koro no ara so

Ro-langsTibetanXiangxi walking corpsesChinese (western Hunan; attributed to Miao sorcery)

Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 1899

Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732ChurelSouth Asian, 1880
Ma dɔm no aduaneMa akyɛdeɛ