Cats and the Ming Dynasty

The Ming jiaqing emperor was a major Ilorophile. He had all his ministers write memorials for the cat and he had it interred at a special gold or or guilt coffin under a cypress tree in jingshan park. And speaking of coffins well you know this isn't related to the jiaqed emperor but there was an old saying that if a cat jumped over a coffin the deceased would rise and live again. There's a variation of this that goes if a cat jumping over a corpse the person's soul would enter the cat and live on. If it jumped over a girl's coffin she'd become a vampire unless the cat was captured and killed.