“White snake’s biography ” is one of China’s four major popular legends. Describe one love story which basilisk that turn into smart human form with a person.
A white baby python was captured by a snake handler in the mountains. Just when the snake handler was about to kill the python for its medicinal gallbladder, a young herder who was passing by saved the snake’s life by bribing the handler with delicious fruits. Seventeen hundred years later, the white python demoness, Bai Su Zhen, attained human form and came to the mortal world to repay this life-saving debt owed thousands of years ago. She sought out Xu Xian, the reincarnation of that young herder, fell in love and married him. The marriage was short-lived however when Monk Fa-Hai, a demon hunter, imprisoned Bai Su Zhen under the Thunder Peak Tower, saying that she has to stay in the tower until the tower collapses and the water in West Lake dries out; The heartbroken Xu Xian, decided to give up the mundane life and became a monk under FaHai to shorten Bai’s imprisonment by accumulating benevolent deeds and merits on her behalf.
Twenty years later, their son, Xu Shi Lin, passed the civil examination and received the honour of The Premier Scholar of the Year. He returned home and set out to plow down the sturdy tower and to dry up the vast lake in order to free his parents. Finally, his behavior moved to god,Baisuzhen can leave the tower and she will never separate with xuxian.
The love story is well-known in china, it passed down generations to generations,their love is pure, selfless,like a crystal,so in the modern life ,we can say it crystal love.
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