In China's folklore, it refers to a ghost who becomes a ghost after death because of excessive yin in the body. This is inhuman and unreasonable. When the walking corpse moves, its hands extend horizontally and its legs keep jumping. Except for its head and limbs, it is difficult to move other parts of the body.
It infects the body by biting and sucking blood. If the bitten person is not treated before the corpse changes, he will become a zombie completely and cannot recover. In addition, due to the concept of modern film and television, it often has supernatural power, such as infinite power, invulnerability, anti-corruption and so on. Even use weapons and martial arts to attack humans.
Zombies are defined as monsters, which can be found in Woods Language written by Yuan Mei in Qing Dynasty and Yuewei Caotang Notes written by Ji Xiaolan in the same period. Before this, the explanation of zombies in China's ancient books was only the simple meaning of zombies; Hiderigami is a zombie, which is quite different from the early legend and is suspected of being attached by later generations.
Zombies described in early classical literature are completely different from the jumping corpses we see in today's movies. For example, the Monkey King in Journey to the West explained the true face of Lady Bones as a zombie.