Legend of the White Snake
| Legend of the White Snake | |||||||||||||||
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Image from the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, depicting the legend | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 白蛇傳 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 白蛇传 | ||||||||||||||
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The Legend of the White Snake is a Chinese legend centered around a romance between a man named Xu Xian and a female snake spirit named Bai Suzhen. It is counted as one of China's Four Great Folktales, the others being Lady Meng Jiang, Butterfly Lovers, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.