Several explanations of corpse driving

There are many explanations about the corpse. Generally speaking, there are the following kinds: the theory of incantation tends to be mystical, and it is considered that the corpse-driver is a kind of magic of Maoshan art, and even detailed practices are listed in some books and legends. For example, it is mentioned in some materials that the mage should use cinnabar (a kind of cinnabar, produced in Chenzhou, western Hunan, which is now Yuanling, with the best quality, so it is called cinnabar) to put it on the forehead, vest, heart, palm and feet of the deceased, put it in the ear, nose and mouth to seal the three souls, then use spells to hold it down, tie it tightly with five-color cloth, and protect the neck of the corpse with spells. With spells, the corpse will stand up. It is said that before liberation, there were shops selling spells in Chenzhou, which were also collectively called Chenzhou spells. Of course, I can't find it anymore. The theory of corpse lifting in Taiwan Province electronic newspaper "Machamp Rebellion" provides an explanation that is more in line with the performance of the film. This explanation is that the corpse truck vertically fixes the corpse on two bamboo poles and transports the corpse like a sedan chair. The specific method is to put bamboo under the armpit of the corpse and tie the arm tightly to the bamboo pole. The body wore a shroud with a wide robe and big sleeves and covered the bamboo pole. At night, it looks like a group of zombies with straight hands. Besides, bamboo is a tough material. When carrying heavy objects, they will shake up and down due to the bending force of bamboo poles, and even the upright bodies seem to jump. Indeed, this shape is very similar to the zombies we see in zombie movies. However, in CCTV's TV program "Walking Around China", Mr. Wu Xianyou, a member of the Political Consultative Conference of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, claimed that he had seen the corpse driver being driven away at 1963. The corpse driver did not jump forward with open arms, but lowered his arms and walked like a living person. Moreover, the mage who drives the corpse is not always two people. Many times, only one person leads the way and is responsible for scattering paper money along the road. Voodoo in Haiti teaches the art of making "resurrected corpses". The resurrected corpse can eat, work and be enslaved at will, but it has no consciousness of its own. Through the analysis of the powder components used in voodoo, people think that it contains toad or tetrodotoxin, which can make people feel dead in clinical manifestations. But how to make the victims "resurrect" and obey orders is still an unsolved mystery. It is also a common saying that the body is carried on the back, which originated from the experience of two PLA soldiers at the beginning of liberation. In this statement, the corpse driver actually takes turns to carry the corpse on his back, puzzling under the cover of night and wide robe sleeves. However, this is really heavy manual labor, which is beyond the ability of ordinary people. Moreover, this method requires higher requirements for corpse preservation. It is said that dismemberment is an activity with the nature of "commercial fraud". Professor Lu Qun from the College of Literature of Jishou University mentioned this method of transporting corpses in his book "Driving Bodies in Western Hunan". The corpse driver dismembered the body and put his head and limbs on his back in a box, while the odd behaviors such as throwing paper money, carrying lanterns and traveling in the middle of the night were just a cover-up. Similarly, this method also requires high anti-corrosion technology.