Jiangshi



"Like many East Asians, we do have jiangshis too. Gangsis to be exact. These bastards are giving me nightmares when I was a kid, showing them running to many villages like crazy. What if an apocalypse like this would've happened? Well, that's what I'd like to wonder about. Was it true that jiangshis would come here and destroy us?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Stale Mind

A jiangshi, also known as a Chinese "hopping" zombie, is a type of reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore. "Jiangshi" is read geung-si in Cantonese, Phi Dip Chin in Thai, cương thi in Vietnamese, gangsi in Korean, kyonshī in Japanese, "hantu pocong" in Malay, and "vampir cina" in Indonesia. It is typically depicted as a stiff corpse dressed in official garments from the Qing Dynasty, and it moves around by hopping, with its arms outstretched. It kills living creatures to absorb their qi, or "life force", usually at night, while during the day, it rests in a coffin or hides in dark places such as caves. Jiangshi legends have inspired a genre of jiangshi films and literature in Hong Kong and East Asia.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, maybe they would be mentioned in Chinese legends and folklore that they are including Jiangshi characters which either good or evil or neutral in during World War III.

Most of them are neutral or evil due to different reasons why always attack living creatures and attack humans only in night or dark places with different from Western zombies and Western vampires that making the other Jiangshi characters may be different from Western zombies too due to either friendly or hostilely or neutrality.

After the Last Day, an civilized Jiangshis created their villages in Xuancheng, Dongguan, Zhaoqing since most of Chinese survivors either survived or turned into eastern ghouls while other Jiangshis have been rised in every Chinese locations