Zombi

Today I'm going to talk about the difference between western culture’s zombies and Asian zombies. In western culture zombies are consider dead people but their bodies are still moving as a human.  The idea of physical zombie-like creatures is present in some South African cultures, where they are called voodoo. Voodoo can make a person’s physiological phenomena close to dead.  Zombies actually originated in The Congo indigenous languages in West Africa, along with the slave trade and the spread to the Caribbean. Zombies, a voodoo affected by those resurrected. Zombies are remorseless and insensate. And unlike some monsters they cannot feel pain. The origin of zombie plagues is rarely explained in the genre; they simply begin. Somewhere the virus is born and it spreads until the whole world must confront it. They move slow, they’re scarier when they’re slow because even though you can out-maneuver them in the short term, they just keep coming for you. Eventually, it isn’t their speed that overwhelms, it is their mass. One zombie is of little  threat, one thousand are. Zombies are hungry, possessing a ravening, insatiable need to feed. And what they seek to consume is us, you and I.

But in Asia, zombies are not that easy as in the west. Today I'm only focusing on Chinese zombies. In China zombies are considered as a strange species between humans and ghosts. Zombies( jiang shi), are  also known as ‘dead jump’.  The name is derived from the Chinese Ming folklore a resurrection of dead bodies, body stiff, sharp nails black, have sharp canine teeth, fear the sun during the day and hide in a coffins, damp, dark caves and other places at night after hunting to suck human blood or animals.  There is a conscious move forward towards population centers, attacks on living creatures is strong and mighty, jumping forward with both hands stretched forward. There are  levels for zombies in China. White zombies, black zombies, jump zombies, flying zombie and god zombies. For example, flying zombie the successful practice of the millennium zombie. In legend zombies can become demons after thousand years, the demon will be able to fly after. For myself I'm more afraid of Chinese zombies, because you can run away for the western zone but you cannot run away from the Chinese one. The differences between those two zombies are generally zombies is not intelligence, and this is the most obvious difference between Chinese zombie( jiang shi), which may have  human intelligence. Chinese Zombies are often reinforced steel frame, bulletproof, fire and water is difficult to invade, immune to all physical attacks, only with Taomu Jian, rice, dog blood, spells and other things in order to kill it. So that is why I'm more affair of Chinese zombies.   It is easy to kill a zombie but not a zombie( jiang shi).