THE MIND MATRIX
The Xiangxi corpse escort and the idea of an army controlled after death
Xiangxi's steep, narrow roads made it difficult to return the dead to their families. The corpse-escort legend may preserve a memory of carriers using springy bamboo poles to move bodies.
Read in Vietnamese →Xiangxi is in western Hunan, China. The region has steep mountains and narrow roads that are hard to travel by vehicle. People who left for military service or work could die hundreds of kilometres from home. Their families still wanted the bodies returned for burial on ancestral land.
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