believes that countless people born in the 1980s have seen Lin Zhengying’s classic movies. Speaking of Lin Zhengying, I have to mention the theme of zombies. In the 1980s, the most popular commercial genre films were Hong Kong films. Zombie films, when we review these classics together, do you also have a question, that is, why do all the zombies in Hong Kong films wear official uniforms and wear Hualing on their heads? Is it true that only rich people can become zombies after they die?
Let us analyze the reasons in the movie together today! The
legend about zombies originated from the Huangdi period, and the earliest zombie was Huangdi’s daughter, Mandrill. In order to help her father complete the great cause, the mandrill cursed her army, and she can wait for the great cause of the Yellow Emperor. After the completion, the dry lady mandrill was unable to ascend to the God Realm because she killed too many people, and finally turned into a zombie because of her resentment, but this is also a legendary story in the "Shan Hai Jing"
later , Records about zombies often appear, but they are too fragmented. If you want to say that there are really records on zombies, you have to be the “stiff limbs” described in the Taoist "Da Qian Lu". The head is not low, the eyes are not slanted, and the legs are not. Regardless of the difference, the corpse does not rot, and it is completely consistent with the imagination of the zombie film starring Lin Zhengying. Moreover, after Daqianlu, Yuan Mei’s "Zibuyu" and Ji Xiaolan's "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" are even more popular among everyone. book'! These two books are also known as the "Zombie Encyclopedia"
Since the release of "Mr. Zombie", wearing a full-fledged official uniform and wearing Hua Ling on his head, they have become the standard style of Lin Zhengying's zombie movies. According to Yuan Mei's record, zombies also have Classification, there are purple zombies, white zombies, metatarsal zombies, hairy zombies, floating corpses, flying zombies, corpses, no bones, etc. When the corpse is first transformed, the flesh will shrink into the bones, and the body will appear a purple That is the purple stiffness. After absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, the white hair grows on the body is the white stiffness!
And the zombies that we see in Lin Zhengying's movies who like to jump around and are afraid of the sun are hairy and flying!
Zombies need to practice for hundreds of years. If you calculate according to the time in the movie, then it happens to be the Qing Dynasty. If we understand from the burial customs, in the late Qing Dynasty, the rich would wear official uniforms after being buried. Shroud, which means to be a rich man in the next life. In the movie "Mr. Zombie", Master Ren’s father said that
was buried in an official uniform and the effect presented by the Qing Dynasty official uniform is more in line with the weird zombie Yin Sen. Everyone knows that the official uniforms of the Qing Dynasty are basically very orthodox. The colors are mainly purple, and the dark colors are mostly dark. Moreover, the official hats of the Qing Dynasty have a shape like a tube, giving people a first feeling of stiffness. This effect undoubtedly adds a lot of weirdness to the movie!
Time goes by, and now the zombie movies have no golden age back then, but these classic works have become irreplaceable childhood memories in our hearts!
