Why are there many similarities between Chinese and Western ghost cultures? For example, the water ghosts recorded in China and the West are all by the river, and they all turn into beautiful women or

Why are there many similarities between Chinese and Western ghost cultures? For example, the water ghosts recorded in China and the West are all by the river, and they all turn into beautiful women or handsome men and other east The difference is still there

Some ghosts are guesses about the unknown, this river often drowns people, so they come up with water ghosts, in fact, there are undercurrents of water and grass and so on.

Hell, hell, reincarnation is actually a religious means of controlling people, people believe that good people have good karma after death and an afterlife, teaching people to be good and allowing them to go against the grain. By the way, there was no hell in Chinese mythology, only after Buddhism was introduced.

Exorcism of ghosts on the East and West basically the same view, are considered to be pure things such as white bright, but the specific still have differences. Salt is mainly a Japanese custom, China's salt is taxed can not afford to spread, there are sprinkled beans, mirrors, mahogany and so on, the West is mainly silver.