What happened in Xiangxi

Driving corpse is a folk custom of Miao nationality in western Hunan, which belongs to witch culture and is also related to various tourist families. The rumor of "corpse-driver" in Xiangxi in Qing Dynasty was widely circulated, that is, corpse-driver used "secret technique" to bring the bodies of people who died in a foreign land back to their hometown and let them rest in peace. Although "Xiangxi corpse drive" has never been scientifically verified or personally confirmed, it has become the prototype of many thriller movies and has been widely known since then.

In the mid-Qing Dynasty, corpse removal appeared, which was to transport the bodies of Hunan immigrants who died in Sichuan to their hometown. In the initial transportation process, the corpse was driven by Xiangxi [3]

There is no need to "catch up" on the waterway. However, in this section of the Three Gorges, the current is fast, the reefs are densely covered, and ships often sink. The ancients were superstitious and never wanted to carry the dead on the steep river, so the profession of "driving the corpse" came into being.

It is said that during the Anti-Japanese War, under the eaves of a family in Datong Street, Chongqing, a note was posted on the door frame, which read "Send the corpse back to Hunan on behalf of the agency".

With the gradual development of people's wisdom, the widespread use of explosives destroyed reefs, modern roads and cars appeared, and steamboats that did not believe in evil began to transport corpses. People's local concept has also faded, and Sichuan immigrants no longer demand that the bodies be transported back to their hometown. Just as the appearance of the train shattered the myth created by bodyguards and greenwood robbers, the corpse-driver was gradually eliminated by history.