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Legend has it that there is a golden toad in the well of Silkmelon in the city of Changde, which often spits out a white light from the mouth of the well at night and rises to the clouds, and those who have the way to ride on this white light can ascend to heaven. Liu Hai, a young man who lived next to the well, was poor, generous and filial to his mother; he often went to the nearby mountains to cut firewood and sell it to buy rice, and lived with his mother.
One day, there was a fox in the mountains that became a spirit and transformed into a beautiful girl, Hu Xiuying, who stopped Liu Hai on his way home and asked to marry him. After the marriage, Hu Xiuying wanted to help Liu Hai to ascend to heaven, spit out a white bead, let Liu Hai do bait, fishing in the well of the watermelon.
The golden toad bites the hook and rises, Liu Hai rides on the toad's back, leaps, and ascends to immortality and goes. In order to commemorate Liu Hai's filial piety and attainment of immortality, the descendants built the Toad Spring Temple next to the well, where the statue of Liu Hai was kept.
The Musical Plot of Tianmen Fox Fairy - Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter
On the night of a full moon a thousand years ago, the world of foxes in the Tianmen Mountain was bustling with excitement, as the supreme Fox King was going to elect a new consort tonight. The foxes stirred and transformed into beautiful women to offer their favors, but the Fox King was unmoved.
The White Fox Fairy, who has been practicing for thousands of years, dances alone to the moon deep in the woods, which is spied by the King of Foxes, and the beauty of the White Fox Fairy makes the King of Foxes fall in love with her at first sight, and the King of Foxes gives the White Fox Fairy the pearl symbolizing his power, announcing that the wedding will be held in three days' time, which is a great joy to all the foxes, and the White Fox Fairy, however, is full of grievances, and she is not in love with the King of Foxes, and she doesn't care about being the Queen of Foxes either.
The night fades, the sun rises, Tianmen Mountain under the Tujia cottage, the man in the labor, the mother-in-law in the fire, the maiden in the river washing. The simple and happy life on earth caused the white fox fairy's infinite fascination, she quietly came to the cottage to spy, and happened to see the happy woodcutter Liu Hai was a group of laundry maidens making fun of thirty yet to get a wife, Liu Hai's bright smile and no matter how much forgiveness y touched the white fox fairy.
White Fox Fairy was y attracted by Liu Hai, has been following him, unknowingly into the hunter's encirclement, the critical moment, the woodcutter Liu Hai stepped forward, rather than be beaten by the crowd to help White Fox Fairy escape. Liu Hai returned home, the white fox fairy to pigeon flowers as a matchmaker, to Liu Hai to express their gratitude, the two coincidentally worship each other, a touching human and fox strange love has since begun...