Ghosts & Spirits ยท China
Jiangshi
A reanimated hopping corpse from Chinese ghost folklore.
Legend File
The Jiangshi is a stiff reanimated corpse that moves through Chinese ghost lore with an uncanny hopping gait. Stories connect it to improper death, failed burial, and ritual methods for controlling or repelling the dead. It is frightening because it makes the body itself disobey rest, turning funeral order into supernatural emergency.
Source Framing
Chinese ghost folklore and later popular jiangshi traditions around stiff reanimated corpses, improper death or burial, Daoist ritual control, talismans, and modern hopping-vampire imagery.
