Ganshi means 'driving corpses'. It is a folk legend from western Hunan in which a ritual specialist walks the bodies of people who died far from home back to their villages, usually at night. Historians doubt it happened as the stories tell it, but it has fed ghost fiction and film for a century. A Prophet uses the legend as cover for smuggling in one of its cons.
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A Prophet: The Republican-Era Con Drama Where Every Trick Has a Trick Behind It
A guide to the 24-episode Republican-era swindler drama A Prophet, which ended its run in October: a hero who poses as a master to take revenge on a fraud ring, the folk-superstition cons at its core, Li Xian and Li Yitong's second pairing, its rename, and the overseas viewers who found it by word of mouth.