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The theme of ghosts is popular in Chinese cinema, including films made in Hong Kong, Singapore and the mainland. A Chinese Ghost Story (倩女幽魂) is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic comedy-horror film starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, and Wu Ma, directed by Ching Siu-tung, and produced by Tsui Hark.
The following is a list of supernatural beings in Chinese folklore and fiction originating from traditional folk culture and contemporary literature.. The list includes creatures from ancient classics (such as the Discourses of the States, Classic of Mountains and Seas, and In Search of the Supernatural) literature from the Gods and Demons genre of fiction, (for example, the Journey to the ...
During the Cultural Revolution of 1966–76, the Red Guards renamed the building Anti-Revisionist Tower, but local residents referred to it as "The Diving Board" because of the dozens of suicides by intellectuals and others who were persecuted as "state enemies". For this reason, believers claim it is haunted by the ghosts of persecuted ...
In the 1987 HK film entitled A Chinese Ghost Story a yaoguai in the form of a "tree demon" was the main antagonist. The "tree demon" was able to command the spirits of the dead to do its bidding, and one of the ghosts falls in love and saves the main protagonist, Nie Huaiqing.
Mogui 魔鬼 (demons) can be distinguished from gui 鬼 (ghosts), which in the usual sense refers primarily to souls of departed beings (鬼: 人死后的灵魂). [ 3 ] Guai 怪 refers to any strange phenomenon (怪 : 奇异，不平常) [ 4 ] and can encompass both mo (魔) and yao (妖), in addition to other aberrant beings, including mutants.
Haunted battlefields are a common theme in ghostlore, often attributed to the violent deaths and residual energy left behind from the conflict. [63] The belief in ghosts and the paranormal is a cultural phenomenon found in many societies, and the stories surrounding haunted battlefields reflect this belief.
This category relates to ghosts in the country of China, and also other places of Chinese culture Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
De Groot suggests that the belief in jiangshi was the result of the natural horror at the sight of dead bodies, nourished by the presence of unburied corpses in the imperial China, which "studded the landscape", the idea of the vital energy flowing through the universe as capable of animating objects - including exposed corpses, and by severe ...