The Little Girl in Red

by HsingMin Liu

Folk stories have a mysterious sense and are often attractive. Each region has its own folk story. Some stories are based on real stories and some stories are created by people. The legend of Chinese monsters refers to various non-goddess ghosts that have been passed down from word of mouth to word of mouth. Many townships and villages all had local village novels in the early days. We want to explore why these stories were born. Why so many people choose to believe these folk stories and pass on to the next generation? If these stories are adapted from a real story, what are the differences between the real story and the changed story?

The story I want to tell today happens in the mountains of Taiwan. According to ABLAZE IMAGE, the incident took place in Taichung City, a suburb of Taichung, around March 1998 (Unknown par 1~3). Around noon on a certain day, several members of a family went hiking on Tai Hang Pte. During the trekking, someone took out V8 to photograph the members of the family one by one. After returning home, they did not take out the tapes. The friend who had gone hiking with him on the day of the sudden death passed away. During the funeral, someone remembered the gentleman who has filmed him in the film and took out the tape. When everyone watched the movie, they discovered that behind the family members who went hiking that day, they followed by a young girl with a blue face and a red dress. And the little girl’s eyes were always covered by a shadow. No one who went hiking on that day remembered seeing this little girl. The more bizarre thing is that when the dead friend in the movie is laughing, a tooth resembling a wild beast appears in his mouth. At that time, in order to verify the incident, people took the videotape back to the shooting location and asked the local residents if anyone had seen this little girl. But no one has ever seen this little girl. Because strange things happen in these people’s lives, people invited a very powerful Chinese wizard to solve this problem. According to the real videotape on YouTube, the party brought the mage to the scene where the little girl was seen for the first time. When the mage got to the scene (the venue was a bamboo forest). Strange things happened. The weather was fine, but when the wizard just stepped into this bamboo forest the sky getting dark. It also blows strong winds and gets stronger and stronger. It is like a warning from a little girl in red. The wizard did gestures threateningly. The wind stopped. Afterward, the wizard seized him and he took it back to the temple. Later, he was sealed into the egg. But it is strange that the wizard actually said to let her go. But people are afraid that the young girl will ask for their lives when they come out. Therefore, they strongly oppose it. The wizard assured them that he had reached an agreement with the little girl. The wizard opens the shell into the river. People see that the yolk and protein are black.

Why is this legend spread within a short time? According to Rose’s report, the videotape was put into the program by the television program. Many people are skeptical about the authenticity of the videotapes. Therefore, the programmers have found many experts to try to understand whether the videotape has been processed. During a certain period of time, the program owner has been playing this video to find out the little girl in the film. During this period, it was also reported that the little girl had seen. There was a man who said that one night he drove home. Suddenly the little girl appeared in red. When he thought about it, he said it was so late. How could she still here? Then go to the red girl’s direction, and then the little girl in red leads him to a turn. As a result, he was on the edge of the cliff, but also he saw the red girl disappeared in a bamboo forest. At that time, he said that he suddenly awoke and did not know why he followed the red girl. Afterward, he said that what he does is always not going well. Another person said that he went fishing with his friends. They fished in the river when it was during the day. At that time, he fished with his friends under the bridge. When he looked up at the bridge, he saw the little girl in the red watched him and walked past him. In the past, he didn’t think about it. When he caught the fish, he came upon the bridge and he saw the little girl in the red dress watching him walking away. Then disappeared into a bamboo forest. Later, after an investigation, it was found that the two men said that the location of the little girl was the same. In the TV show, when this legend was hyped, one day this program stopped the topic. Something strange happened to the staff responsible for placing the videotape. He said he saw the little girl coming out of the screen. These things make this story more real. Many people choose to believe this legend so that fewer and fewer people are approaching this bamboo forest.

This folk story was also written as an adult novel and filmed as a movie. According to Ho Yi’s report and the movie The Tag-Long, the content of novels and movies is also now known to everyone. The story is more complete in the history of fiction and film and makes people in other countries know this story. The plot of the story is this–There is a person whose name is Xiaoming. Xiaoming’s parents died and he lived with his grandmother. The relationship between Xiaoming and grandmother is not very good. Even on the morning before the tragedy, the two had a dispute…….. Xiaoming’s grandmother traveled to the mountains with his old friends on a certain day and Grandma’s friend called one of her friend’s full name when they are hiking. And this friend disappeared when everyone went down. Everyone went back to the mountain and couldn’t find this friend. One day, Xiaoming’s grandmother sent lunch to him and saw this long-lost friend walking from afar. Xiaoming’s grandmother chased her past and disappeared into a forest. The missing grandmother’s friend appeared at Xiaoming’s home that evening. This friend has been crying and has been apologizing to Xiaoming. At this time people in the town started to feel wrong.

Xiaoming begins to investigate the reasons for the disappearance of his grandmother. Xiaoming asked around and finally asked the guards who had a parking lot to see Xiaoming grandmother appear on the monitor screen while he was working. Xiaoming hurriedly visited the guard and asked him to call up the surveillance video of the night. They were very shocked by the content of the surveillance video. The surveillance video recorder took pictures of Xiaoming’s grandmother who was dragged into the forest by a little girl dressed in red. Because the strange behavior of her grandmother’s friends made Xiaoming very confused, he decided to go to the grandmother’s friend’s home with the guard. Xiaoming pressed the bell but no one responded, so they decided to break into the door. When they entered the house, they felt a strange and gloomy atmosphere and the lights in the house were closed. Only the moonlight shined into the room and the room was faintly visible. They slowly walked into the room and came to the kitchen. A lady lay on the floor of the kitchen. This woman’s grandmother’s friend had no breath and her expression was very painful at the time of death. At this time, the sound came from behind them. They look backward. There is a girl in red dress lying on the refrigerator. The face of the little girl is extremely horrible. They were intimidated and the little girl escaped from the window.

Xiaoming, who knew the truth about the matter, decided to go to the forest and save the grandmother. The guard wants to stop him but Xiaoming has already made up his mind. Xiaoming rushed into the forest to find grandmother. The guards thought that Xiaoming situation should be bad, so he immediately informed Xiaoming’s fiancée about this. As a result, Xiaoming returned with his grandmother in the morning. Xiaoming’s fiancée went to the home early in the morning to care about Xiaoming. The fiancée opened the door and entered the room where Xiaoming was eating breakfast but the contents of the breakfast caused the fiancée to vomit on the spot. Xiaoming is eating an insect meal made by her grandmother. The fiancee looked at his grandmother and his grandmother showed an evil expression. This grandmother is fake. The red girl pretending to be a grandmother confuses Xiaoming. The fiancee rushed out of the house with a horrified look. The fiancee met the guard outside the house. They decided to go back to the house and save Xiaoming. When they returned to the house, only Xiaoming’s grandmother fainted on the ground. The fiancée and the guards hurriedly took the grandmother to the hospital hoping to ask him what had happened.

After two days, Xiaoming’s grandmother woke up. In the two days, the rescue team could not find Xiaoming in the mountains. The fiancee asked the grandmother why this time Xiaoming was caught by the little girl. Grandmother cried and she called Xiaoming’s name when Xiaoming ran to the forest to save her. Grandmother is very reprimanded and she hopes to return to the forest to save Xiaoming. But his grandmother’s body was so weak that Xiaoming’s fiancée decided to advance the forest and save her fiancé. Before going to the forest, Xiaoming’s fiancee visited the temple and found a wizard. She told the story of the wizard that the wizard decided to help her rescue Xiaoming after listening to the story. Because the strength of the red girl is too strong, there may be an emergency. Before the departure to the forest, the shaman gives Xiaoming’s fiancée three amulets.

Wizards and Xiaoming’s fiancé searched for the whereabouts of Xiaoming from the entrance to the forest early in the morning. They walked into the depths of the forest. The weather in the morning is sunny, but when they go deeper into the forest, the sky gets darker and darker. Suddenly the wind blows in the forest and all the birds fly out. Then the wizard said that we had arrived at the site of the little girl in red. Suddenly, there was a pattern with a face of a butterfly flying to Xiaoming’s fiancée. The fiancée was scared and suddenly ran into the forest. When she recovered she had already separated from the wizard. The fiancee finds Xiaoming in a tree. Xiaoming is hung on the tree by the little girl. Xiao Ming lost consciousness and was bewildered by the little girl. The little red girl also appeared in the original shape. She was the demon spirit in the forest. The fiancée temporarily blocked its actions with the amulet given by the shaman and began to awaken Xiaoming by telling memories and releasing love. At this time, Xiaoming resumed consciousness and the wizard arrived. After a long period of resistance, the wizard finally blocked the little girl in a gourd. Finally, Xiaoming and his fiancee bought a new house and got married. But the pattern of a butterfly that appears in the home is a person’s face. The first part of the movie ends here. This is also a part that is similar to a real story. People think that the original storyline is a bit hurried, so to solve more doubts and make the story more complete. They added some plots themselves, and the fictional plot was also made into a film widely known.

The next thing I want to say is the part of the story that is being made up by people. Because the little girl in the real story is always a mystery, people make up their own story about the truth of the girl in red. The movie The Tag- Long 2 says at the beginning of the story was a group of people who went to a hill to illegally cut wood and accidentally broke the seal of the little girl’s container during the cutting of the wood. After a few days of news reports, a group of people disappeared strangely and this group of people was a lumberjack. Because it was sealed for a long time, the little girl’s resentment was even stronger. After a year passed, Xiaoming and his grandmother who were rescued from the mountain were all dead. Xiaoming’s fiancée also disappeared for a year. The story begins with a shot of a mother and daughter arguing. The name of this mother is Shu-fen. She is a single mother who raised her daughter up to 17 years old but her daughter came back from school and told her she is pregnant. Shu-fen hopes that her daughter can perform abortions so they have a dispute. Shu Fen’s daughter did not return home from school this afternoon. Shu Fen phoned and asked her daughter’s classmate if she knew where her daughter was. The daughter’s classmate said that he saw Shu Fen’s daughter playing in the park with a little girl dressed in red after school. At this time, Shu Fen began to think about news reports about disappearances and red-haired girls that were seen a few years ago. The woman immediately asked the rescue team to go to the mountains to save people. It is clear that the rescue team did not find Shu Fen’s daughter. Shu Fen asked around for information on the little girl in red, hoping to find a way to save her daughter. Shu Fen finally found out that there was a wizard who helped seal the red girl. Shu Fen immediately found the wizard but the shaman is already old and has no ability to seal the red girl now. The result did not expect that the son of the wizard to be the boyfriend of his daughter. Because the wizard had also taught witchcraft to his son, he decided to help save Shu Fen’s daughter. However, because his son’s witchcraft was not strong enough, they decided to negotiate with the red girl.
They entered the forest and found an abandoned hospital wizard. The son said that this place is where the red girl hides. Suddenly the red girl appeared and both sides started negotiations. The little girl asked if she could find her mother, she would return her daughter to her. The red girl gave them some hints that they could help her find her mother. After a period of investigation and searching for Shu Fen, they finally found the mother of the little girl in red. It is strange to decorate and decorate the interior of the girl’s mother. The home is covered with amulets and Chinese traditional symbols. Shu Fen told the lady why they visited and the lady asked them to sit and chat at home. At home, there is a small schoolgirl body written with a bunch of spells. At this time the lady began to tell a story.

The lady took her daughter to the amusement park in the mountains seven years ago. But the tragedy happened. The roller coaster in the amusement park crashed. Many children died in this accident. Her daughter was one of the children. This lady is also a wizard. She cannot afford the fact that her daughter died. So she decided to use the family’s forbidden witchcraft to resurrect her daughter. She washed her daughter’s body clean and put on red clothes and brought it to a hole in the hill to perform witchcraft. Every day, he wrote the animals first and poured them on the body and read incantations. After 7 days, her daughter disappeared from the pit. At first, she thought her daughter was really resurrected. As a result, her daughter in the forest was not resurrected and she became a demon. When the woman sees her daughter turning into a demon, she scares this one move and hurts the heart of the little girl. The woman decided to follow Shu Fen up the mountain to meet the little girl in red.

They came to the place agreed upon with the red girl. The little girl appeared to ask how the mother and sister did not come together. At this moment, the mother felt the little girl’s breath changed, so the mother was ready to cast spells to seal the little girl again. But the mother did not expect that the little girl became very strong because the little girl killed a lot of people. Eventually, the mother was killed by the little girl. Before the mother died, she told Shu Fen to go home and protect her daughter. Shu Fen rushes to drive home and picks up the daughter of the lady before she goes to find her son’s son to help. As they were preparing to go out, the little girl appeared in front of them as a daughter of Shuk Fen. At this time, the girl in red decided to kill this younger sister because she was a daughter born to her mother after she died. At this time his sister called her a sister and told her mother never forgot her. The little red girl looked around and found that the family’s wall was full of pictures of her childhood with her mother. This made the red girl very moved and decided to forget hatred and then reincarnation.