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White Suzhen, a snake demon cultivated for a thousand years, in order to repay Xu Xian, a scholar, for saving her life in his previous life, took human form in order to repay her kindness, and then she met Xiaoqing, a green snake spirit, and the two of them became companions. Bai Suzhen exerted her magic power and trickery to get acquainted with Xu Xian and married him.
Later, Bai Suzhen was taken into the mantle by Fa Hai and suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda after giving birth to a child because she had violated the laws of heaven. Later, Bai Suzhen's son grew up and won the Scholarship, and went to the pagoda to sacrifice his mother, rescuing her and reuniting the family.
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The legend of "The Legend of the White Snake" has a long history and is one of the four major folk love legends in China (the other three being "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "Meng Jiangnu", and "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden").
The Legend of the White Snake matured and flourished during the Qing Dynasty, and is an example of collective Chinese folk creation. It describes the twisted love story between a snake spirit who has cultivated into human form and a human being.
The story includes such episodes as the borrowing of an umbrella from a canopy boat, the White Snake stealing the ganoderma lucidum, the flooding of San Francisco, the Broken Bridge, the Leifeng Pagoda, and the sacrifice of the pagoda by Xu Xian's son, Shilin, and the attempted disappearance of Fa Hai into the belly of a crab in order to escape from death.
It expresses the people's yearning for the freedom of love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable constraints of the feudal forces. It was listed in the "first batch of national intangible cultural heritages". A number of movies, TV dramas and animated films have been produced based on this story.
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1. Bai Suzhen (白素貞)
Bai Suzhen (白素贞)
Bai Suzhen (白素贞), born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Qingchengshan Mountain, is a white snake spirit that has been practicing for thousands of years. [1] Legend has it that she was a disciple of the Old Mother of Mount Lishan, and is the protagonist of one of the four great love legends of ancient folklore, The Legend of the White Snake. Bai Suzhen practiced on Mount Qingcheng and Mount Emei to become a Taoist, and was highly skilled in magical arts.She is a beautiful woman, with bright eyes and white teeth, and she is a heavenly fairy who is beautiful, elegant and noble in the world. She is a kind-hearted person who uses her medical skills to help the people, and she has done a great deal of good for them.
Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian met at the West Lake, and fell in love at first sight and got married. When the monk of Jinshan Temple, Fa Hai, compels Xu Xian to leave the couple, Xu Xian listens to the slander and abandons his family and runs away from Jinshan. When Bai Suzhen went to Jinshan to ask for her husband, she fought with Fa Hai and the water flooded Jinshan.
Fa Hai used his power to break them up and pressed Bai Suzhen under the Leifeng Pagoda. Twenty years later, White Snake's son, Xu Shilin, was awarded the Scholarship and his filial piety moved heaven, so White Snake finally got out of the pagoda and returned to the immortal class.
2, Xu Xian
Legend has it that Xu Xian was an apprentice at a pharmacy in Hangzhou, a kind and generous character, and cultivated for thousands of years into a human form with the White Snake (White Snake, known as the "White Snake") and the Green Snake (known as the Green Snake, the Green Snake), encountered in the rain, and the same boat **** ferry.
This is how Xu Xian and the White Snake came to know each other and developed a mutual love for each other, and soon became husband and wife. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Xu Bai opened a pharmacy, Baohe Tang, and lived a happy life. In order to help Xu Xian, the White Lady ordered Xiao Qing to steal the silver.
The Dragon Boat Festival, due to the White Lady drinking the real shape of the Xionghuang wine, Xu Xian was scared to death. He was scared to death, but he took the ganoderma lucidum, which was stolen from the Kunlun Mountain by the White Lady, and was able to bring him back from the dead.
The monk Fa Hai of Jinshan Temple was determined to subdue the White Lady. First, he used a ploy to take Xu Xian and imprison him at the Jinshan Temple, luring the White Snake along with the Green Snake to claim her husband. The white lady's husband failed to do so, and in a fit of rage, she flooded San Francisco.
The flooding of the Qiantang River led to the flooding of Qiantang County, causing numerous deaths and injuries. Thus committing the great crime of heaven, Fa Hai took the opportunity to find a reason, after a few weeks and finally the White Lady in its bowl, town in the West Lake Lei Feng Pagoda.
Folklore in later generations, and Xu Xian's son Xu Shilin (from the "New White Lady Legend", its earlier from the Sichuan opera. There are related to the Yueju opera and other theater scripts called Xu Mengjiao) grew up after the examination, returned to his hometown tower to save his mother and other episodes.
3, Fa Hai
Fa Hai Zen Master is the son of Pei Huo, a famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, commonly known as Pei Wende. His father Pei Huo chancellor, the word Gongmei, the Tang dynasty Jiyuan local Pei village people. Born in a famous family, generations of Buddhism. Pei Huo, the prime minister, studied y in all sects of Buddhism at that time.
He passed the entrance examination during the Changqing period (821-824) of the Tang Dynasty, and served as a minister of provincial government, minister of the Ministry of Rites, and a junior minister of the Crown Prince. In the sixth year of Dazhong (852), Pei Huo was promoted to be the minister of Pingzhang (prime minister) under the Zhongshu Menxia (中書門下平章事), and resided in the position of prime minister for five years.
Corrupt officials, good governance, erudition, and excellent documents. Behind him, "New Book of Tang", "Old Book of Tang" have been his biography. According to "Jinshan Temple Records", the young Pei Wende then accepted his father's order.
And by the then Tanzhou (Changsha area) Observer father personally sent to Weishan, Hunan Province to practice, worship in the then founder of Zen Weiyang Sect 'Lingyou Zen Master' foot as a disciple. According to the ancient Zen saying, when Pei Wende was shaved, he was given the name 'Fa Hai'.
Pei Wende was given the name "Fa Hai" when he was shaved. After shaving, his teacher, Zen Master Lingyou day after day order his austerity, before and after the resident firewood for nearly three years, and for the resident more than 500 monks to transport water for nearly three years. Sometimes it was so hard that he would move his head slightly.
On one occasion, he sweated profusely carrying a bucket of water and said to himself: "Monks eat water Hanlin pick, even if you eat it is also difficult to eliminate". Under this phrase, every meal of the public after eating the stomach is uncomfortable, the diet can not be digested. After the master Lingyou Zenji heard about this incident.
Yu Fa Hai Zen Master daily to come around small senate, meaningful to him, said: "the old monk to play a sit, can eliminate ten thousand loads of grain." From then on, the masses of abdominal compartmentalization that is completely lifted. Fa Hai Zen Master was y ashamed, that is, put away the body and mind, austerity service to the masses of monks.
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