But it is a common phenomenon that zombies seem to appear in the clothing of the previous dynasty. Thus in Qing dynasty zombie stories, the living dead were dressed like scholars of the Ming dynasty. The point is to emphasize that zombies are "long dead, from a remote era in the past."
不過共通的是，僵屍們都喜歡穿著前朝的舊衣服出現，像是清朝的僵屍故事中，僵屍就做明朝的儒生打扮，這表示僵屍是一種「年代久遠、死了很久的東西」。