Jiang Shi (Geung Si in Cantonese; 殭屍; literally "stiff corpse"), sometimes called Chinese vampires by Westerners, are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence from their victims. They are created when a person's soul fails to leave the deceased's body.
It came from the mythical folklore practice of "Traveling a Corpse over a Thousand Li" (千里行屍), where traveling companion or family members who could not afford wagons or have very little money would hire Tao priests to transport corpses of their friends/family members who died far away from home over long distances by teaching them to hop on their own feet back to their hometown for proper burial.
Jiang Shis can be put to sleep by putting on their foreheads a piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it (符). It is also conventional wisdom of feng shui in Chinese architecture that a threshold (門檻), a piece of wood approximately six inches high, be installed along the width of the door at the bottom to prevent a Jiang Shi from entering the household.
It came from the mythical folklore practice of "Traveling a Corpse over a Thousand Li" (千里行屍), where traveling companion or family members who could not afford wagons or have very little money would hire Tao priests to transport corpses of their friends/family members who died far away from home over long distances by teaching them to hop on their own feet back to their hometown for proper burial.
Jiang Shis can be put to sleep by putting on their foreheads a piece of yellow paper with a spell written on it (符). It is also conventional wisdom of feng shui in Chinese architecture that a threshold (門檻), a piece of wood approximately six inches high, be installed along the width of the door at the bottom to prevent a Jiang Shi from entering the household.
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