95年成都人人都在传僵尸，学生不让戴红领巾

Chengdu people’s impression of the year 1995 often brings up “zombies.”

There are many versions. Some say an archaeological team dug up three Qing-dynasty ancient corpses near the Wuhou Shrine, and they disappeared at night; some say they ran out of a cave on Mount Qingcheng that isn’t open to the public. Others say the Public Security Bureau caught seven, three escaped, and they were burned with flamethrowers. Some tell it even more fantastically, saying a zombie can jump up to the third floor in one leap, and bit several people in a single breath.

Those who claim to have experienced it give more specific details: schools notified students not to wear red scarves or red clothes, because legend had it that zombies only recognize red. Every household scattered white rice at their door, hung mirrors on the doorframes, realgar sold out at pharmacies, garlic prices rose, and even ginger was being hoarded. Some schools cancelled evening study sessions, and once it got dark, there was no one on the streets.

But strangely, though so many people spread the story, from beginning to end, no one could name someone who had actually seen a zombie with their own eyes, there was no blood-stained pair of pants, no photograph, and I couldn’t find any hospital that admitted treating someone who had been bitten. The newspaper debunking mentioned in the legend, I likewise couldn’t find the original manuscript.

Later, someone figured out that during that period in Chengdu, it just happened to be the years when all kinds of “strange event” rumors were popular—Harbin had the Cat-Faced Old Lady, other cities had their own versions. The people spreading the rumors weren’t necessarily doing it on purpose; one person passed it to another, and each time it was retold, more details were added.

Ten years later in Nanchong, someone dug up a stone coffin at a construction site, containing a Qing-dynasty corpse bound with thick rope. That’s another matter, though the two incidents are often told together. As for that “zombie” back then, in the end, no one could say what it looked like.

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