Legend of the White Snake

Legend of the White Snake
Image from the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, depicting the legend
Traditional Chinese白蛇傳
Simplified Chinese白蛇传
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBái Shé Zhuàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingBaak6 Se4 Cyun4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJPe̍k-siâ-tōan or Pe̍h-siâ-tōan

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.[1]

  1. ^ Idema (2012), p. 26.

Legend of the White Snake

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