Maybe. The Death Note (死亡筆記) is said to be China's oldest "book of the dead." It contained rules and spells of the afterlife if your name was recorded in it. The exact origin of the book isn't clear, but it's likely the Yellow Emperor (circa 3,000 B.C.) made it to enforce his new imperial system. However, the book might have been a superstition as there's so little evidence of it. At the same time, this evidence could have been lost during China's Cultural Revolution.