Five Emissaries of Epidemics

I believe these shenmo (god-demons) known as the Five Emissaries of Epidemics were invoked and embodied during certain martial arts rituals. Martial rituals are the part of traditional Chinese martial arts which were discarded at the beginning of the 20th Century. This is a possible origin for the arts of Xingyi and xinyi, but this is a subject that needs a lot more investigation. I hope to do a video on it in the next couple of months.