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Is the white lady in history a real person or a fake?

The heroine in China's ancient folklore The Legend of the White Snake. Also known as white snake and white snake.

According to legend, Xu Xuan (or Xu Xian), the drug king of Hang Cheng, met the beautiful white snake and maid Qingqing (also known as Xiaoqing, herring and green snake) on the West Lake during the Shaoxing period in the Southern Song Dynasty, and they helped each other and got married. The married white lady is often weird, so she may not be worthy. The monk of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang gave Xu a bowl to cover his wife. The white and blue quilt cover reveals its true colors, and it is a white snake herring that has been taught for thousands of years. Then Fahai took a bowl and put it in front of Leisi Peak, where a seven-level pagoda named Leifeng was built. The tower was always white and green.

In the folklore of later generations, there are also plots such as white snakes eating Ganoderma lucidum secretly, floods flooding over Jinshan, Xu Xian's son offering sacrifices to a pagoda, and Fahai escaping from the crab's abdomen. Because it has become one of the other four major folk customs. It expresses the people's praise for the free love between men and women and their hatred for feudal forces. The White Snake was unknown at first, but later it was said to be Su Zhen, Xu Xuan or Xu Xian, herring or green snake.