The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai   Su Xiaoxiao   Lady White Snake   

The episode is the stormy love affair between the loyal heroine Lady White Snake and her emotional but fainthearted husband. 

Taking the shapes of two women, White Snake and Green Snake toured on the West Lake. There they met Xu Xian on the Broken Bridge in a rainy day, which White Snake fell in love with and married shortly. On the one hand, she would like to repay an obligation for Xu Xian saved her from a hunter several generations ago with the help of Kwan-yin; on the other hand, she truly loved this average man for his honesty and kind-heartedness. After they got married, they set up a drugstore named Baohe Tang, which nowadays has been the national preservation, for stopping people from diseases. On a May Festival, Xu offered a herbal drink, Xionghuang Wine, to White Snake. Having resisted the effect of the herbal drink in vain, White Snake turned back to a snake, which frightened Xu to death. For saving her husband, she tried her best to turn for help all through the earth and heaven. After many sufferings and setbacks, she succeeded in saving her husband. Later, she was imprisoned in Leifeng Tower until decades past, when her son Xu Shilin, who got the first prize in the imperial examination, came to this tower and requested the god for helping him to set his mother free.

This is not only a love story but also a family story, basically reflecting the folk wishes. This is the main idea of this romantic story, which to some extent indicates Chinese people's sentiment and thinking. In Ten Most Famous Scenes of the West Lake, there are two scenic spots, that is, Leifeng Pagoda in Evening Glow and Lingering Snow on the Broken Bridge. You will have more distinctive understanding towards these scenic spots on condition that you know these legendary stories and the background culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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