Quote Originally Posted by Miscast_Mage View Post
Huh, just made another connection between Meiling and Miyako(or Yoshika... Okay, I'm just calling her Corpsey untill I figure out which is her first name); Look at their hats, and realise that they're both from China(or Corpsy's case, she's a Jiang Shi, a chinese zombie, at least).
And in another instance of ZUN doing his homework and possibly wanting to reference something:

"According to the backstory of Night Warriors, Hsien-Ko was born around the 1730s with a twin named Mei-Ling. During this time, ghosts and spirits of the dead arose from their resting places and attacked a rural Chinese village. [snip]

This turned the twins into a jiāngshī (僵屍 "stiff corpse"), a type of Chinese zombie."

The origin in question is apparently the story for Hsien-Ko from Capcom's Darkstalkers.