Popular Culture
- Taiwanese singer Jay Chou featured jiang shis in one of his music videos, Bencao Gangmu (本草綱目).
- The Taiwanese black metal band Chthonic features many lyrics about Chinese and native Taiwanese Seediq Bale mythology and folklore. For their Mirror of Retribution era, the vocalist, Freddy Lim, wore corpsepaint that resembled the face of a jiang shi, and the keyboardist, CJ Kao wore a cloth around his head that was covered with grass script calligraphy, which resembled the spell-paper put upon a jiang shi's face to reanimate it.
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