When a person dies, they become a ghost. When a ghost dies, it becomes a jian; when a jian dies, it becomes a xi; when a xi dies, it becomes a yi; when a yi dies, it becomes a wei; and when a wei dies, it becomes formless. Thus, yin and yang are distinct, and good and evil must be kept apart. People can be good or bad, and ghosts can be kind or wicked. The kind should be guided onward; the wicked should be destroyed!
In those years, as a folk inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, I climbed snow-capped mountains and crossed grasslands. I witnessed not only the Miao witchcraft of Xinjiang, which struck fear across the southwest, and the long-established Li Tou Witch Clan, but also crossed spells with the headhunters of Nanyang and took on the yin-yang masters of Dongyang...
