湘西赶尸 Origin of the Chinese Vampire - The Hmong/Miao Walking Corpses
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- čas přidán 30. 11. 2015
- Yes! The famous Chinese "Vampires/Zombies" or dead evil walking corpses were actually inspired from the Ghao Xong (Miao or Hmong)'s legends in Xiangxi, Hunan province, China. This has been said to be a real practice among the Ghao Xong which were most likely found and written down during the Ming Dynasty. In early China, the Miao (Hmong/Hmu/Ghao Xong) people were known to be the first kind of people to have practice black magic and witchcraft. In this Ghao Xong practice and beliefs, if a dead relative was unable to come home and being bury close to their home, the dead relative would become a wondering lonely ghost. To avoid that, the relatives of the dead person would often ask or hire the shamans or daoism/taoism priests to help guide the body back home to their relatives. The corpses would either hop, or walk back as it is being guided by the shaman's chants and gong sounds. Often at times, the relatives would only to be able to get a rare glimpses at the dead body before burying.
The myth of the practice is said to be thrived from Chiyou (Txiv Yawg). After the raging bloody wars with HuangDi, Chiyou saw many of his people dead in the battlefield. He didn't want to leave all of them behind, so he asked the shamans to guide them back home properly without leaving them all there. With Chiyou's banner heading towards the South, the shamans guided the dead bodies of soldiers back home. From that point on, this practice was established.
The idea of Jiangshi (僵尸) or Ganshi (赶尸) became more known worldwide as it has been popularized by the Hong Kong 1990s' media and movies often wearing in Qing Dynasty's clothing. The Ghao Xong group specifically also wore Qing Dynasty's clothing due to Qing Dynasty's oppression and trying to assimilate the Ghao Xong under their rule.
I actually have known this for awhile, but now that I found a perfect documentary (in English), more information to show to you all. :)
Although this documentary tries to prove a scientific or logical point of view into the superstition, we may actually never know whether it's possible or just mere superstitions and sightings.
You know what's more scary than a walking corpse at night? A walking human being. I've never heard of a walking corpse eating anyone or a ghost torturing anyone, but everyday people are getting killed and tortured by other human being whether at night or broad daylight. Talking about being afraid of the wrong thing.
Both are scary in it own ways
Yes. I like to tell people I am more scare of human then ghost because human can hurt you
@@virgovibe626 ever watched A Chinese ghost story? The Taoist priest says he prefers to be among the demons in the abandoned temple than to be around humans
This comment wins the internet LLOOLL
@@YurumeinHerballyLivingyoutube link bro..
Back in thailand my dad's cousin actually saw a walking corpse. Of course they were doing a eating thing and the person who they had just bury walked back and one of the og's yelled at that corpse in hmong saying "you are already dead, you have no life and reasons to be here anymore. Go back to where you were bury!" Then the corpse turned around and went back!
Thanks thats funny dog thanks for the information I thought they were real too also why did come back from it’s grave
This explains why in those dab neeg the dead would just pace around the house after chasing a person who was able to escape into a house. I used to wonder, if they're just a spirit and not a physical body, why would they pace around a house? Well, sure enough, it is a dead walking corpse
Thank you for sharing!! Very good educational video showing Miao spirituality, history, traditions and origins. Ancient spiritualists often don't share their secrets. They often just make lies to cover up the truth. Uat zhout.
well, this documentary isn’t really positive. a lot of it was pretty negative from an arrogant perspective with a lot of propaganda
Ohh so thats where it originated from Hm...interesting. I knew Vampires/Zombies were real! Now these days the newer generation doesn't believe it anymore, but i still do even tho i was born in the 90's.
To the producer: we HMONG do not call ourselves Meo...that's a RACIAL SLUR by haters
Thanks . I learnt something from you.
Who are "we"? The miao people of China called themselves Miao and not Hmong.
Maixee the Huandi called all of us "Nanman" it's way worse then "Miao" I'm Hakka BTW
I appreciate that this is being looked into and the depths of the libraries and knowledge that is still being passed on. So many different cultures make up modern China and that wealth of cultural overview is a testament to the people. I am a fan of the movies and stories written, whether reality is stranger than fiction is always the question, but anything is possible - even if modern people don't say it's true we will truly never know, as some ancients didn't believed in it and others dd and some still do.
there’s a lot of propaganda out there about the miao / hmong people esp if it comes out of china. what they don’t tell you is that our language and cultural practices were banned, our ancestors tongues were cut off so we couldn’t speak to each other but because our language doesn’t need a tongue to understand each other we persevered by hiding our language in songs through instruments and in embroidery / clothing. our people went through countless wars and oppression. if you hear the negative words used you can see the propaganda, we are traditionally farmers and shamans not witches.
Now we know its true when our OGs tell us stories about them tiger (tsov) people.
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Chi-You used his unmatched divine powers to reanimate his dead soldiers for a proper burial. Chi-You loved his army but was betrayed by some which caused him to lose the war. He realized that the ones who died on the battlefield were loyal and noble to their king. On the other hand.. Chinese vampires do exist.
Actully during Txiv Yawg's era he asked the shaman to ask the spirit world's soldiers to help with the war because his soldiers are getting killed. So after the war the spirits soldiers needs to go back home and thar is where the shaman had to take them home, which is in the video. Now days many Hmong head families of every clan still do a shaman ceremony to send soldiers, to the spirit world to help defend there, just like how the spirit had helped us. My family still do this shaman ceremony, that is why I know all of this.
Thank you for sharing. :)
Amazing
Wow
Where do you come from?
It's mythology.
I dont have to go to China - I see the walking dead here every Monday morning ;)
Arthur Watts you talking about the early morning paint sniffers in Compton? In all the drug infested parts of the hood the only things stirring in the early am hours are the unlucky ones who are going through early stages of withdrawals or the paint sniffing zombies... usually gold or silver paint all over themselves, for some reason they think gold or silver paint is better, and maybe it is, but I’m sure as hell not going to find out. Even sniffing once can turn you into a moron.
Lol
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I think this story might be true cause we still use this practice. We do not actually take the body home to do the funeral in us but in Thailand, Laos, n Vietnam they still do the funeral at home. During the funeral ceremony they track back the dead person foot step back the brith place to get luv tsho tsuj tsho npuaj bc they send the deceases to ancestors.
Cause we can’t take our body to China where our ancestors use to live so what we can do is to send our sprit instead
Just because you guys still practice this art doesn't mean its real and these corpses can jumps or walks after they died...
@@sohkathatch4081 Every culture around the world that is practiced has their own origin story as to who or why things are the way they are. This is the origin of leading the dead that is still being practiced by our Hmong to this day. So I suggest you show some respect even though you don't believe it.
Ua tsaug ntau mog, HDQ ! Zoo-siab heev tau pom aub ! Paris, Fr( 20 Sept. 2021)
Shaman work and witchcraft like this
Also exist in Toraja, Indonesia. It cannot be explained by science. But the elders told me that those corpses actually possessed by spirit summoned by the shaman.
Maybe thise Shaman works for Jins lol...
This is interesting. It reminds me of the HongKong Vampire movie: in Hmong, Xib Fwb Tua Dab.
I wouldn’t say this is true, but it IS entertaining to listen to. 👍🏼
Hi there, is that possible to get the transcript? Some of the parts and words are really hard for me to understand. Thank you !
lol the narrator missed pronounced so many words in mandarin and in hmong
I'm confused; forbidden to marry by whom exactly?
I first saw a hopping vampire in an old Chinese movie in the late 90s as a kid. Then I played Ragnarok RO and I saw one creep like that in game 😅😅
That resurrection plant is what hmong people use for when a woman is about to give birth she drinks it for the pain
so the lam ching ying mr vampire movie series in the 90s were based on this?
Very interesting.
In Triad Hung have Sin Kun 1 & 3 most horror and mysterious legenda how to wake up dead body and make the tool for many need...and near movie in 1970-1990 era
I'm chicken so watching this gives me goosebumps. my mind is blown!
+MicThao lol! I got the creeps while watching this as well!
+Peter Yang kinda and yes
MicThao It's okay I'll come over and protect you from the T.V screen 😂🖒.....
What? I thought it was only used by the Chinese... where a Daoist priest would guide the dead people home.
A lot of Asians come from
The same place similar rituals
its very possible. im not sure if this magic still exist though. dont know for sure if it has been passed down.
It is still being used till this day, (shamen)but mainly to cure, because most of the experts are dying out. And most of the kids don't want to learn it now days. Religious beliefs of the hmong are slowly dying.
Ken Yang ?
Shamen broo
Resurrection plant? Remind me of Kingdom from Netflix
Im waiting for season 2... lol
@@pozn9962 While you’re waiting for Season 2 I’m waiting for Seasons 3!
😂
Precisely.
Also the huangdi would call the Hamong Nanman i think the term miao is way less intense 😂
36:25 Aha! So that's why they were hopping! Hong Kong movies sorts got it right! What? You never saw Hong Kong Hopping Vampires movies? You don't know what you're missing! Do a YT search for Mr Vampire.
That priest just told them the recipe to make zombies lolz!!
At 7:41 I guess this has to do with "Pointing" the way for the dead we do at funerals using the "Qeej" or some how relates.
Lol wow at 30:00 they reject the term corpse driver but narrator continues to call them that. Haha
No wonder it make so much sense now why out of all the race we hmong 0eople are really heavy into spirit world as in ghost demons and magic.
o_O Whoa, talk about mind-blowing.
+AtarashiNOhi Ikr! Who would have never thought! Awesome facts right here!
+Peter Yang I have heard stories of ghosts, spirits, animal spirits and demons living within the forests, dragons living in lakes and rivers but never have I heard of the dead being reanimated in Hmong/Miao mythology.
+AtarashiNOhi it gets better when you start to discover more and more
+AtarashiNOhi Oh we have so much more to explore. Our history is blended with the entire Chinese history and that includes all of the other ethnics in China as well. Now we just have to go deeper and see which part of the history was ours as well along with the Han Chinese. It only makes sense that our people would practice such stuff like this if we are the first kind of people in China known to have "invented witchcraft."
+HmongbDebQeut (HmoobTebChaws) I'm starting to be more and more convinced that we played a pretty big part in the foundation of this land we call China, today.
dude
this is cool
raising the dead..can be done...but one has to be really brave...and those who know how will never never tell..or help with no trust....mean kiss n tell...some thing like that...
zajlau nope, I assume just like Christianity your raising the dead is full of prerequisites that could never be met, or they prevent you from ever doing it. Like God will never appear because you ask. “Thou shall not ask of god” so basically, god has built in reasons why he never appeared to anyone. And here’s the real kicker,anyone who says they saw or talked to god is considered crazy by the Christians. They know there is no god, they just like their little club, patting each other on the back and saying “good job brother Jonah”
Chinese Vampires is realer than my imagination friends who love treating me to ice cream with his 4 dollar U.S.D bill ......
Hindu & Buddha may know more of this secret.
Interesting.
-.- it would be better interview phd Stephen Skinner who travel to the east to study occult
"Jiangxhi" is the actual name for "the walking corpse" in Chinese. I'm glad I clicked this video, I myself wants clarification if this "Jiangxhi" is real or mythical.
Tu siab tias dhau los lawm ntau tiam, peb tsis nco qab txog peb pog koob thiab yawg koob lawv txoj kev ua dab qhuas tag lawm. Peb Hmoob pheej xav tias luag tus Vajtswv ces thiaj yog peb tus cawm. Ntsia xwb twb pom tias tus uas neeg muab hu ua Vajtswv twb tsis zoo li peb. Yog peb muaj teb muaj chaw nrog luag nyob ntshe peb txoj kev cai dab quas twb yuav tsis muaj ntau coob txoj kev ntseeg li niaj hlub nyiam no. Ntshe peb twb yog ib tsob Hmoob thiab muaj ib txog kev ca dab qhuas rau s/d kawm xwb.
You know you have to be REALLY special AKA sensitive to the other world, to witness it. Just sayin.
Walking corpses don't exist....buddy. Stop your superstitions.
play sleeping dogs nightmare on northpoint
I wonder if that was a Taoist priest
The Kingdom.
well o prove that where humans before along time ago and some people ask they use black magic summon for evil and so thats why why they turn into a demonmans forever thats terrible
They could be smugglers
Wait.... Are you telling me that I GOT MAGIC POWERS? so Harry Potter was REALLY Harry Phong Her?
The Chinese were 'innovative' even in delivering the dead to their homes! Or deceptive in their methods! Helped by superstitions, customs & beliefs.
Only the American series The Walking Dead can overdo the walking!!!
Get some chicken blood to protect yourself.
Hmong used chicken is how the Israelite used the blood of lamb on the doors so the Angel of Death can pass your door. You have to know most of our traditions are dated from the Jewish traditions.
@@lilacfairy. how tf did all the cultures even know about Jewish culture back then? 😂 respect others cultures no need to disrespect on another
intriguing but i doubt all of these possible explanations are applicable to legit cases as described by the two old men. like with any wide spread local customs, profit seekers are abundant yet disregarding every body walker as mere tricksters is an outright insult to professionals who most certainly were capable of delivering bodies via shamanic means intact. mind you i'm an avid denier of the supernatural yet i dare not discredit that which i can't explain especially because of how we barely know anything about our lost history.
Hmong people need to understand that Miao is not Hmong, we Hmong is Miao. There are many groups of Miao with their own tradition, language, and histories. Hmong is just one of these group that was categorized as Miao. Even if Hmong people have their own stories of the dead come back to the living, the concept of priest/shaman delivering walking corpses to its' home is definitely not a Hmong thing. In summary, learn some Hmong histories and stop taking credit for any in the name of Miao.
Urm, you need more learning
@@niamtxiv don’t worry, it’s just the same propaganda that comes out of china when they try to claim us as chinese after they’ve waged wars and tortured our leaders in lies of peace and banned our language and practices for hundreds of years. they often don’t call us Hmong because we renamed ourselves as a free people of the chinese propaganda. now china is doing the same thing to Tiebet and Taiwan.
@@niamtxiv So do you. Since the miao people are quite diverse and they have no written languages, their history is passed down by the words of mouth. This even makes their cultures, religions and history more diverse.
Back in ancient times the huangdi would call you Nanman which is way more derogatory then Miao just FYI the Han people consider anyone that isn't part of the huangdi as barbarians I'm a Hakka a nomad we had to swallow predigus the term Miao is better then the stuff the northerners used to call your ancestors trust me 😅
The Chinese have a higher percent of inventing this.
Hmong created vampire ???? Sick
long thor Walking corpse not Vampire........
@@solomonking5097 jiangshi can be a walking corpse or vampire like a Norse Draugr there is no distinction between them they share traits from both
Jiang shi
Ehh, Dont really believe the story about the two soldiers. This whole thing was saying how people did this for "money." Im pretty sure those two soldiers failed their mission, so they had to make up a lie. Lmao. They had no evidence at all. This whole video has no actual evidence as to if the two soldiers really did solve the problem or not.
No wonder Hmongs were exiled.
I thought the Jumpy Pale come from the Jurchen.
No
Lol no, it came from the Hmong
the rest body too tired, two qi. chained to life, from fast idle to slow idle to sons who are idle. everything black market.
BY GOLLY❗️even the DEAD were victims of CORRUPTIONS.
Wht kind of heartless we are❓️
S.O.B and children of the corn, bas&%^d.
Interesting
Thnx
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Make me a vampire icywater
Wut?
Wow so deep.
of coarse its impossible, but just believe. jesus performed miracles too.
senioryangvang How you know he did? Was you there over 2000 year ago?
Yes. Yes I was.
Voodo anyone ???
jeph jackson Yup ....
Uh yeah someone put black magic on me as a baby . Not only that it is a love black magic. And it is fogging my mind. And bad things happens to me😡 unable to find true love . But assholes
You must ruqia by islamic way
Almost all haven't seen Jesus. But why don't you label as superstition.
He marry wrong he is a nothing he's not a star lol
¿history? ¿china's vampires? mundo vampires donald j trump,
Disappointed, it’s double looped/repeated. Sux
Jesus Christ is the only way guys.
Get lost