"Chinese Horror Stories" digs deep into the texture of Chinese folk customs that have existed for thousands of years, weaving the shadows of ancient houses in deserted villages and the legends of mountain spirits and wild ghosts into a strange picture. The bluestone road is soaked with the weeping blood of the wronged souls, the paper figures shake off the ashes of old talismans when they cry at night in the mourning hall, the copper bell of the corpse exorcist in Western Hunan shakes the corpse shadows on the moonlit night, and the bamboo flute of the Lingnan Gu woman lures the poisonous buds in the heart. Every spell in the story seals the seven emotions and six desires, and every ghost reflects the human heart in the world - the hanged ghost on the beam of the old house turned out to be the abandoned bride, and the drowned ghost in the well still clutches the embroidered shoes that were snatched away back then. When the wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival cannot hide the rotten odor of the mass graves, and the river lanterns on the Hungry Ghost Festival drift away carrying the resentment of a wasted death, these stories crawling out of the folds of local chronicles and genealogies are using the most eerie tone to tell the bloody truth beneath the joys and sorrows and taboos crushed by ethics.
