At that time, many places in the southwest were mountainous and poor. Some people go out to make a living, then die in other places, and then they will find some Xiangxi corpse-driving monks to get these things back.
Xiangxi corpse seems to be a master? Going? Actually, I brought it back. They will dispose of the body first to prevent the long journey and the decomposition of the body. For some thin people, the internal organs are usually taken out, stuffed into plant ash, and the water in the body is sucked dry, and then stuffed into Chinese herbal medicines for preservation, so that the body will be light. For some obese people, the same method will be used, but the parts below the shoulders and above the calves of the deceased will be directly cut off and thrown away, and these limbs will be connected by wooden brackets in the middle to become human figures. When put on clothes, they will look like a complete corpse and reduce the weight. Then they will put a spell on the corpse's head, and then put a bamboo pole under the corpse's arms, thus hanging the corpse. Two people carry three or four bodies, so the first person and the last person are often living. In order to prevent the corpse from rotting, most of them travel at night. Because such a team looks strange, and it is a technology that only spreads internally but not externally, and there are few relevant records in history, which makes it full of mystery.
Such a corpse team has existed for a long time, but now it has disappeared. After the founding of New China, there were still corpse-drivers, but with the progress and development of society, their living space became smaller and smaller, until there was no need for inheritance, corpse-drivers really disappeared into history.
These are the principles of corpse driving in Xiangxi and the reasons why they don't exist.