| Xu Xian | |
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| Legend of the White Snake character | |
 A shadow puppet from the Qing dynasty depicting Xu Xian | |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner |
| Spouse | Bai Suzhen |
| Children | Xu Shilin (son) |
| Relatives | A sister |
| Home | Lin'an Prefecture (modern Hangzhou) |
| Nationality | Song China |
| Xu Xian | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 許仙 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 许仙 | ||||||||||||||
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| Xu Xuan | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 許宣 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 许宣 | ||||||||||||||
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Xu Xian (Chinese: 許仙), courtesy name Hanwen (漢文), is a main character of the Legend of the White Snake, one of China's four great folk tales. In some versions of the legend he is a scholar, while in others he is a physician. In earlier works such as Feng Menglong's Stories to Caution the World, he is known as Xu Xuan (Chinese: 許宣).