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閱微草堂筆記·卷十 · Ji Yun, Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Scrutiny, vol. 10 · Wikisource
然此類皆不為祟，其為祟者曰僵屍。僵屍有二，其一新屍未斂者，忽躍起搏人﹔其一久葬不腐者，變形如魑魅，夜或出遊，逢人即攫。或曰旱魃即此，莫能詳也。
Yet bodies of this kind do no harm. The ones that do harm are called jiangshi. There are two kinds. One is a fresh corpse not yet laid in its coffin, which suddenly leaps up and seizes people. The other has been buried a long time without decaying; it changes shape until it resembles a mountain demon, sometimes roams at night, and snatches anyone it meets. Some say the drought demon is this very thing, but no one can be sure.
閱微草堂筆記·卷七 · Ji Yun, vol. 7 — the physician Hu Gongshan’s encounter · Wikisource
說少年嘗遇一僵屍，揮拳擊之，如中木石，幾為所搏，幸躍上高樹之頂，屍繞樹踴距，至曉乃抱木不動。……白毛遍體，目赤如丹砂，指如曲鉤，齒露唇外如利刃，怖幾失魂。
He said that as a young man he once met a jiangshi. He punched it, and it was like striking wood or stone; it nearly caught him. Luckily he leapt to the top of a tall tree. The corpse circled the tree, jumping and stamping, until dawn, when it clung to the trunk and stopped moving. … It was covered all over in white hair, its eyes were red as cinnabar, its fingers like hooks, its teeth stuck out past its lips like blades. He was nearly frightened out of his wits.
Note the corpse “jumping” (踴) around the tree, one of several leaping corpses in these texts. Ellipsis marks omitted lines.
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閱微草堂筆記·卷七 · Ji Yun, vol. 7 — on the drought demon · Wikisource
近世所云旱魃則皆僵屍，掘而焚之，亦往往致雨。
The drought demons spoken of in recent times are all jiangshi; when they are dug up and burned, rain often follows.
子不語·卷十二·飛僵 · Yuan Mei, What Confucius Did Not Speak Of, vol. 12, “The Flying Jiangshi” · Wikisource
山中出一僵屍，能飛行空中，食人小兒。……法師曰：「凡僵屍最怕鈴鐺聲，爾到夜間伺其飛出，即入穴中持兩大鈴搖之，手不可住。……
A jiangshi came out of the mountains. It could fly through the air and ate the village’s small children. … The Taoist master said: “All jiangshi fear the sound of bells above everything. At night, wait until it flies out, then go into its lair with two large bells and shake them — and don’t let your hands stop.”
子不語·卷十二·兩僵屍野合 · Yuan Mei, vol. 12, “Two Jiangshi Meet in Secret” · Wikisource
素聞僵屍失棺上蓋便不能作祟……再尾之，至樓下且躍且鳴，唶唶有聲；樓上婦亦相對唶唶，以手搖拒，似訝其不應再至者。雞忽鳴，屍倒於路側。
He had always heard that a jiangshi that loses the lid of its coffin can do no more harm. … He followed it again. Beneath the window it leapt and cried out, chattering; the woman upstairs chattered back, waving it away with her hand, as if surprised it had come again. Suddenly a rooster crowed, and the corpse fell down by the roadside.
The corpse “leapt and cried out” (且躍且鳴): another Qing image of a leaping corpse, decades before the films.
子不語·卷二十二·僵屍抱韋馱 · Yuan Mei, vol. 22, “The Jiangshi That Hugged Weituo” · Wikisource
見床後厝棺砉然有聲，走出一屍，遍身白毛，如反穿銀鼠套者，面上皆滿，兩眼深黑，中有綠眼，光閃閃然，直來撲李。……僵屍伸兩臂抱韋馱神而口咬之，嗒嗒有聲。
Behind the bed, a coffin awaiting burial burst open with a crack and a corpse walked out. It was covered in white hair, as if wearing an ermine coat inside out, its face covered too; its two eyes were deep black with green pupils that glittered, and it lunged straight at Li. … The jiangshi stretched out both arms, hugged the statue of the god Weituo and bit it — clack, clack.
Comparing the Books典籍对比
Ji Yun sorts jiangshi into types and records what witnesses told him; Yuan Mei tells complete stories with a plot and a cure. In the passages quoted here, both describe a hairy, violent corpse that leaps rather than hops, and neither mentions an official’s robe or a forehead talisman.
