The legend happened in Hangzhou, Suzhou and Zhenjiang during the Song Dynasty. Bai Suzhen is a snake demon who has been practicing for thousands of years. In order to repay scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his previous life, he turned into a human to repay his kindness. Later, he met Xiaoqing, a green snake spirit, and the two became friends. Bai Suzhen used her magic power and clever tricks to get acquainted with Xu Xian and marry him.
After the marriage, monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a snake demon, but Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, Xu Xian followed Fahai's method and made Bai Suzhen drink wine with realgar on the Dragon Boat Festival. Bai Suzhen had to show her original shape, but frightened Xu Xian to death. Bai Suzhen went to heaven to steal the fairy grass and revive Xu Xian.
Fahai deceived Xu Xian to Jinshan Temple and placed him under house arrest. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fought with Fahai and flooded Jinshan Temple, but they harmed other living beings. Bai Suzhen violated the rules of heaven and was taken into a bowl by Fahai after giving birth to a child and suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda. Hou Bai Suzhen's son grew up and won the first prize. He went to the pagoda to sacrifice his mother, rescued her and reunited the whole family.
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Bai Suzhen
Bai Suzhen was born in Qingcheng Mountain, Chengdu, Sichuan. She is a white snake spirit who has been practicing for thousands of years. Legend has it that he was a disciple of Lishan Mother and the protagonist of "The Legend of White Snake", one of the four great love legends in ancient times. Bai Suzhen practiced Taoism in Qingcheng Mountain and Emei Mountain, and her magic skills are very powerful.
Xu Xian
Hanwen, a native of Qiantang County, Hangzhou City, her parents died when she was young, and she was raised by her sister Xu Jiaorong and her brother-in-law Li Gongfu. He was originally a scholar, but was later recommended by his sister to work as an apprentice in a drug store. On the bank of the West Lake, I happened to meet Bai Suzhen, who came to repay her kindness after rescuing her 1,700 years ago, and Xiaoqing, the green snake that Bai Suzhen had tamed. Xu and Bai met by chance in the rain, crossed the river in the same boat, and fell in love with each other. Soon the two became husband and wife.
Fahai
Fahai is the abbot of Jinshan Temple. He possesses extremely powerful magic power and walks the world with the belief of subduing demons and saving people. However, Fahai was conservative in his thinking and overgeneralized, mistakenly believing that all fairies should be subdued and cultivated by the Buddha.