Ghost started to play an important role thousands years ago. In Chinese history, people started to believe that a person would become a ghost after he died more than three thousand years ago. Then the person’s identity would continue beyond the grave. They think ghosts will continue care about and affect things in the real world. This belief made the divination prevalently. “In late imperial Chinese ghost tales, the victims of certain kinds of untimely death, including some methods of suicide, become ghosts who seek out mortals to take their places.” “The ghost of a suicide seeking a substitute is terrifying largely because of the expansion of personal vengeance to general malevolence.”(Huntington, R. 2005, para.1, 2)
The most famous ghost in Chinese old tales.
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