The Legend of the White Snake has a long history and is a household name, and is one of the four major Chinese folk love legends. The following is a brief introduction to the legend of the White Snake from me, I hope you like it!
Introduction to the Legend of the White Snake
The Legend of the White Snake is the story of the White Snake White Niangzi, White Snake Legend also known as the Legend of the White Niangzi, the Leifeng Pagoda Legend and so on, one of the four great ancient Chinese folklore, which tells the story of cultivating a thousand years of the White Snake into the White Snake (Bai Suzhen), with the Green Snake Xiaoying came to the West Lake in Hangzhou, with the pharmacy fellow Xu Xian (Xuan) met and fell in love! The story is a series of sad and happy events, including the marriage of Xu Xian, a pharmacist, and the interference of the monk Fa Hai.
In 2006, it was selected as one of the first national intangible cultural heritage.
History
? White Snake Oral Literature? originated in Zhenjiang, and gradually formed a related ? cultural space? Some of the names of places in the legends or books about the White Snake over the ages, such as? Needle Bridge? and? Wujie Lane? and? Jinshan Temple? All of these temples are located in Zhenjiang. Jinshan Temple? The temple is located in the center of the city of Zhenjiang. White Dragon Cave and Bailong-dong. Fahai Cave etc. have long been unique to Zhenjiang and the "White Snake" related cultural relics.
The legend of the White Snake began in the Tang and Five Dynasties period, basically molded in the Southern Song Dynasty, until the late Yuan Dynasty has been compiled by the literati into a miscellaneous plays and books. In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong compiled the proposed book "White Snake", which is the earliest complete text of the legend.
From the Ming and Qing dynasties to the present day, the oral literature of the folklore and various types of popular literature and art adaptations and performances have interpenetrated and merged with each other, so that the Legend of the White Snake has eventually become a classic subject of stories, ballads, treasure scrolls, novels, novels, dramas, playbooks, operas, and play-letters, as well as movies, television, cartoons, dances, comic strips, and other forms of literature and art. Its influence continued to expand and eventually spread throughout the country, becoming a household name and spreading as far as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India and many other countries.
Folklore often appears? Phenomenon, the White Snake legend is the same. Folklore experts believe that Zhenjiang, Hangzhou is an important place of circulation of this legend. The legend of the White Snake has been widely circulated in the region, and the legend of Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnu, and the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden are listed as the four major legends of the Chinese nation that have been widely circulated.
The significance of inheritance
The Legend of the White Snake is a bright pearl in traditional Chinese folklore, and the characters portrayed in the Legend of the White Snake, Hsu Hsien, Fa Hai, and Hsiao Ching, which expresses the people's desire for the emancipation of human nature, are the valuable spiritual cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. It is an invaluable spiritual cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. A large number of ancient traditional customs preserved in the legend make the Legend of the White Snake one of the richest oral heritages of traditional Chinese folk culture.
The Legend of the White Snake has greatly enriched the treasury of Chinese folklore. Its stories are strange and its characters are vivid and full-bodied, and the White Snake is an important typical image in the gallery of Chinese art.
The main social ideas, beliefs and values of different periods since the Southern Song Dynasty, as well as the deep psychology of the nation, as reflected in the legend, have important historical value. The White Snake legend is also rich in folklore and customs, and is an important reference for understanding the local customs of Jiangnan.
For Hangzhou, the main place of the legend, the Legend of the White Snake is inextricably linked to the Broken Bridge, the Leifeng Pagoda, and the natural and cultural landscapes of the West Lake, which give both Hangzhou and the West Lake a richer cultural connotation.
Main Content
? The Legend of the White Snake? is an anti-feudal love tragedy with strong mythological colors. People's favorite name for the heroine of the tragedy is White Snake. It is said that she was originally a white snake, and a green snake cultivated in the deep mountains for a thousand years, and was able to change her human form.
Unwilling to live the lonely life of mountain cultivation, she transformed into the main maiden, named Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing'er, and came to the prosperous and beautiful Xizi Lake, looking for a free and happy life on earth. During the Ching Ming Festival when the peaches are red and the willows are green, Xu Xian, a pharmacist in Hangzhou, goes to visit his grave near Lingyin. On his way back, the wind and rain made it difficult to walk, so he had to hire a boat at the Broken Bridge to go home. The White Lady and Qing'er were attracted to the young Xu Xian. White asks for a ride home on Xu Xian's boat at the bridge, and Xu Xian agrees. When they disembarked at the Chungjin Gate, it was raining incessantly, so Xu Xian lent his umbrella to them and went back to the city in the rain.
The next day, Xu Xian came to the Bai family's house to collect the umbrella as promised, and was received with great hospitality. The next day, Xu Xian came to the Bai family's house to collect the umbrella as promised, and was received with great hospitality. Xu Xian was arrested and sent to Zhenjiang. The White Lady and Qing'er eventually arrived in Zhenjiang and found Xu Xian. They opened a pharmacy, giving medicines and treating people, which was very popular among the locals. Life is very happy.
The abbot of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, Fa Hai, is a monk with great powers. He knew the origin of the White Lady, that the Buddhist land in Jiangnan, how can we tolerate the demon inhabited? So, he came to the door to sow discord. Xu Xian could not believe that his wife was the embodiment of the White Snake.
But he couldn't stand Fa Hai's persuasion, and finally, on the Dragon Boat Festival, he made the White Snake drink Xionghuang wine.
As a result, the tent was opened and his wife was transformed into a white snake. Xu Xian fainted and his life was in danger. Bai Suzhen woke up and went to the island of Penglai to save Xu Xian, despite all the dangers.
After recovering from his illness, Xu Xian was provoked by Fa Hai and went to the Jinshan Temple to make a wish. The first time, he was in the middle of his journey, and the second time he was in the middle of his journey, he was in the middle of his journey, and he was in the middle of his journey. White Snake went to ask for his husband, and was insulted when she begged him to do so. She and Qing'er could do nothing about it, so they mobilized the shrimp soldiers and crab generals to reverse the flow of the Yangtze River and flooded San Francisco. Fa Hai also summoned heavenly soldiers and generals to suppress them. After a bitter battle, the White Lady, because of her pregnancy, finally lost the battle and disappeared back to Hangzhou with Qing'er.
Xu Xian takes advantage of the chaos of the two sides to escape back to Hangzhou, and meets with Auntie White and Qing Er at the Broken Bridge. The White Lady blames Xu Xian for being gullible, while Qing'er hates Xu Xian and raises her sword to kill him. After Xu Xian admitted his mistake, the three of them got back together and focused their hatred on Fahai.
As white will give birth, everyone together to Xu's brother-in-law's home to settle down. This is the famous "Meeting at the Broken Bridge".
The White Lady gave birth to a boy, Xu Shilin, and was celebrating the full moon when Fa Hai arrived. He sacrificed his golden mantle and suppressed the White Snake under the Leifeng Pagoda, declaring that he would not allow her to see the light of day until the tower fell.
But after? The bowl was closed. when it was time, Qing'er escaped. She practiced in the mountains for many years, learning all the magic skills, and finally pushed down the Leifeng Pagoda, rescuing White Snake and ascending to heaven together. The defeated Fa Hai had nowhere to hide but into the crab shell.? Eat the crab, peel off the back shell, there is a ? Bald Monk? , which is said to be Fa Hai.
Qingming Festival, the West Lake shore flowers, willow green, broken bridge above the tourists like shuttle, really
is a good picture of the beautiful picture of spring. Suddenly, from the bottom of the West Lake quietly rise up two like flowers like jade girl, what happened? How can people rise out of the water? It turned out that they are two cultivated into the human form of the snake, although so, but they are not harmless, only because of the envy of the world's colorful life, only one of the pseudonym white Suzhen, a pseudonym of the small green, came to the West Lake to play.
But the God suddenly launched a temper, all of a sudden a torrential downpour, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing was drenched nowhere to hide, is worried about it, suddenly felt more than an umbrella over their heads, turn around and look, only to see a gentle, elegant, pure and beautiful young scholar with an umbrella for them to cover the rain.
Bai Suzhen and this young scholar four eyes, both coincidentally red face, mutual adoration. Xiaoqing saw in the eyes, busy said: ? Thank you! I'd like to ask you your name, please.
The little scholar said: ? From then on, the three of them often meet, Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian's feelings are getting better and better, after a short while, they tied the knot, and opened a ? Baohe Tang? The pharmacy, a small life can be beautiful!
Because of this, the world's most famous and most popular traveler is the world's most popular traveler.
But, the "Baohe Tang" is not a "Baohe Tang". The prosperity, Xu Xian and the white lady's happy life but annoyed a person, who? That is the monk Fa Hai of Jinshan Temple.
Because people's illnesses are cured by the White Lady, the people who go to the Jinshan Temple to burn incense and beg for bodhisattvas are much fewer, and the incense is not prosperous, so the monk Fahai is naturally not happy.
On this day, he came to ? In front of the white lady, see the white lady is treating people, can not help but heart jealousy, and then fixed eyes to see, ah! The white lady is not a mortal, but a white snake!
Fa Hai this person although a little magic, but his heart is not right, is the kind of teeth will be rewarded the main.
A glimpse of the identity of the white lady, he wanted to break up the couple of Xu Xian and the white lady all day long, to bring down?
After recognizing the identity of the White Lady, he wanted to break up the couple and bring down?
So, he secretly called Xu Xian to the temple, said to him: ? Your mother is a snake spirit change, you quickly break up with her, otherwise, she will eat you! When Xu Xian heard this, he was very angry and thought: My wife is kind-hearted and her love for me is deeper than the sea. Even if she is a snake spirit, she won't harm me, not to mention that she is now pregnant, how can I leave her! When Fa Hai saw that Xu Xian did not take his bait, he became infuriated and locked Xu Xian up in the temple.
? Baohe Hall? Inside, the White Lady is anxiously waiting for Xu Xian to come back.
One day and two days passed.
Waiting, waiting, waiting, the white lady is anxious. Finally, she found out that Xu Xian had been given a chance by the monk Fa Hai of the Jinshan Temple.
Fa Hai saw the White Lady, a sneer, said: ? Bold demon snake, I advise you to quickly leave the earth, or do not blame me for not polite! The white lady saw Fa Hai refused to let go, have no choice but to pull down the head of the golden hairpin, the wind a shake, set off a huge wave, to the Jinshan Temple straight to the past. Fa Hai saw the water flooded San Francisco Temple, and quickly took off his robe, turned into a long embankment, stopped outside the temple door.
The water rose a foot, the long embankment will be a foot high, the water rose a zhang, the long embankment will be a zhang high, no matter how big the waves are, can not be diffused through. Coupled with the white lady is pregnant in the body, really can not fight the sea, and later, the sea made fraudulent maneuvers, the white lady into the golden bowl, pressed in the Leifeng Tower, the Xu Xian and the white lady of this pair of loving couples live apart.
Xiaoqing escaped from the Jinshan Temple, dozens of years of deep mountain practice, and finally defeated Fahai, forced him into the belly of the crab, rescued the White Lady, and from then on, she and Xu Xian and their children live happily together, never to be separated again.