SciFi and Fantasy Art: Chinese Vampire: Xiang Shi

Actually, maybe the vampire in the picture can be the "plain old western vampire" of chinese ethnicity. just a thought... =P

love the picture though... it displays a lot of quirkiness, liveliness and creativity.

I ounce heard chinese vampires drain people of there chi or someeething like that is it true

Very nice I like Chinese/Japanese demon legends.

i heard there are 3 types of chinese vampires/demons
1. Hsi Hsue Kuei
2. Kuang Shi
3. Xiang Shi
but can anyone answer me if these are real or not? my mom says they are real...but they are inanimate like..they only freeze the body of the dead

Thankfully the Jiang Hsi are not indestructible. Firstly, they can only sense their victims via vibrations (e.g. sound waves or breath aka disruption of the air atmosphere). So, if you are unlucky enough to encounter one, just hold your breath and wait for it to leave. I must add that i only refer to this seeming restriction as relevant to the normal Jiang Hsi. If the Jiang Hsi has preyed on a large number of victims and/ or are centuries old has accumulated enough chi to a conversion into Jing (literally, Spiritualised). These Jiang Hsi have gained the ability of sight and are more cognitively-empowered. These are those you really don't want to meet. Thankfully they are not indestructible. Chinese vampires can be dealt with in the following manner: they are generally averse to blood from black dogs (Hei Gou Xue), snake gall bladder (She dan), raw and uncooked glutinous rice grains (Nuo Mi), Taoist ritual swords crafted from the wood of the PeachWood Tree (Tao mu Jian), and ink mixed with chicken blood and ceremonial joss ashes. Chinese Talisman (Huang Fu) immobilises these creatures; blood dispensed from the fingertips of a Taoist priest on the forehead of a Jiang Hsi also stops them in their tracks (for the blood of a trained and pious practitioner of The Way clashes with the extreme negativity of the Jiang Hsi's chi). The best solution would be, in my opinion, would be to jump into any large body of water. This course of action effectively hinders the Jiang Hsi's pursuit, for they are averse to water as a Ji (literally, Restriction). To actually KILL one and not merely to run away, fire is the only solution. However, i would seriously not recommend this to the layperson/ non-practitioners of Maoist School of the Tao. Only these trained vampire-hunters are qualified to subdue these anomalies of nature.

They exist. The Chinese Vampire is usually formed when the dead retains a mouthful of air, or chi, upon death. This chi is accumulated as a result of a wrongful death. This chi draws the negative energy around the atmosphere communally shared by both the living and the dead (the dichotomy of the yin and the yang, so as to speak). This quickly leads to the stiffening of the corpse, and consequently an inhibition of the decaying that accompanies death. Hence Jiang Hsi/ Keong Si - literally, "Stiff COrpse". The Jiang Hsi has an insatiable thirst for blood, more specifically the yang chi (aka positive energy; Spirit of the Living) from the mortal. Thus the bodies of the victims of a vampire attack are always found to be drained of blood (Gan Hsi, literally Dried Corpse). These are the lucky ones, quickly cremated in pseudo-exorcism with branches of LyChee tree. Otherwise they in turn would rise to be vampires themselves. This is eminently due to the exchange of the chi between the aggressor and its victims that indubitably brings on the chaotic imbalance in the host body of the brutalised. Also, it must be highlighted that being stiff, the Jiang Hsi can only hop - but these entities hop at an inhumanly rapid rate. This might sound ludicrous, but in all my research on the Jiang Hsi i would surmise to say that they are anything but ridiculous.

Xiang shi is freaky.

Whoa! This is too cool!! The flying guy... Xiang Shi is very neat. The style of the drawing is excellent ^_^ Very well done. Keep up the great work!!

Wow. I love the way you did this picture. Well done! Giggles* this is my favourite picture that ive seen of yours i do believe

I dunno... sort of looks like a European vamp.....
Kuang-Shi look different. Like... Hsien-ko, from the darkstalkers series! Look her name up on a image search at altavista, yahoo, or whatever. That's the typical outfit that kuang-shi wear.