Episode 160: The Terrifying Jiangshi (Jing Shi)

This episode of 4 Ever Paranormal jumps into perhaps one of the most bizarre figures within Chinese folklore - the Jiangshi. The Jiangshi does not represent an elegant vampire as in the west, but rather an unnatural and frightening “hopping corpse,” without a wistful spirit. The Jiangshi's body is animated by the energy of “qi,” the life force, and not due to its desire for blood.

We look at the origin of this belief through actual historic means of transporting bodies over long distances to metaphysical belief systems based on Taoist views of how a spirit can leave its body; this exploration causes us to be unable to tell whether one has experienced something or whether it is an explanation of an experience. Were these experiences purely based on cultural factors or were there truly things where people had an authentic encounter?

The episode presents an ambiguous situation; it you into an in-between land of myth, history, and collective experience. The concept of the dead continually moving around is almost quite plausible.

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