The story of White Snake and Xu Xian:
Zhenjiang city in song dynasty. The White Snake is a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his last life, he turned into a human figure to repay his kindness. Later, I met the green snake essence Xiaoqing and they got together. Mrs White Snake used his magic to get to know Xu Xian and marry him. After the marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that White Snake was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical.
Later, according to Fahai's method, Xu Xian asked the White Snake to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs White Snake had to show his true colors, but he scared Xu Xian half to death. The White Snake went to Heaven to steal the fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. The White Snake fought with Fahai, flooded Jinshan Temple, but hurt other creatures.
After giving birth, the White Snake who broke the dogma was put into a bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Tower. Mrs. White Snake's son became the best scholar when he grew up. He went to the tower to worship his mother, saved her and reunited the whole family. And the lovely Xiaoqing also found Xianggong.
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Introduction to the legend of white snake:
The legend of White Snake has a long history and is one of the four folk love legends in China (the other three are Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnv and Cowherd and Weaver Girl). The legend of White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it was a model of China folk collective creation. This paper describes a tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates human form and human beings. There are stories about wupengchuan borrowing an umbrella, White Niangzi stealing ganoderma lucidum and fairy grass, and flooding Jinshan to break the bridge.
Xu Xian's son, Leifeng Pagoda, worshiped Pagoda in Shilin, and Fahai fled to the belly of a crab to avoid death. It expresses the people's admiration for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable bondage of feudal forces. It was listed as "the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage". According to this story, many TV dramas and cartoons were filmed.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Legend of the White Snake (Folklore Story)