In The Legend of the White Snake, the white snake went to collect Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. What mountain is it?

In Legend of the White Snake, the white snake picked Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian, which is Kunlun Mountain (there are other sayings.

Fahai, a monk in Jinshan Temple, was jealous of the happy marriage between Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi and warned Xu Xianbai to be changed by the snake demon. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Xu listened to his words and advised Bai to drink realgar wine, revealing his true colors. Xu Xian died of fright. White sneaked into Kunlun Mountain to steal Ganoderma lucidum. Stopped by the crane deer Erxianhao, the white snake empress was defeated. At this time, the Antarctic fairy gave Ganoderma lucidum out of sympathy and saved Xu Xian.

Story content

According to Feng Menglong's "Warning Words" in the late Ming Dynasty, it is said that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, a snake demon trained for thousands of years turned into a beautiful woman named White Niangzi, and its maid Qingqing (also known as Xiaoqing, herring and green snake) met Xu Xuan (or), the king of medicine, in the West Lake of Hangzhou. They fell in love at first sight through thick and thin. After marriage, I have experienced a lot of right and wrong. White snakes are often weird and may not be comparable. 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.

All the monks bought shrines and burned them, and built a bone tower, which was immortal for thousands of years. When they died, they also wrote eight poems as a warning, saying:

My ancestors gave me the world of mortals, and Cycas bloomed without spring.

The cycle of transformation is very heavy, and life is reborn.

If you want to know that color is colorless, you must know that it is invisible, but it is tangible.

Empty color is color, and empty color should be clear.

Later generations added some plots according to this legend, making the story more popular and in line with the public's taste, which has been passed down to this day. The content is as follows: Zhenjiang City in Song Dynasty. The White Snake is a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his last life, he turned into a human figure to repay his kindness. Later, I met the green snake essence Xiaoqing and they got together. Mrs White Snake used his magic to get to know Xu Xian and marry him. After the marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that White Snake was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, according to Fahai's method, Xu Xian asked the White Snake to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs White Snake had to show his true colors, but he scared Xu Xian half to death. The White Snake went to Heaven to steal the fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. The White Snake fought with Fahai, flooded Jinshan Temple, but hurt other creatures. After giving birth, the White Snake who broke the dogma was put into a bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Tower. Mrs. White Snake's son became the best scholar when he grew up. He went to the tower to worship his mother, saved her and reunited the whole family. And the lovely Xiaoqing also found Xianggong.

The legend of White Snake is widely circulated in China. At first, it was spread orally. Later, it appeared in various forms such as commenting on stories, telling stories and playing lyrics, and gradually evolved into a drama performance. Later, there were novels, and after the Republic of China, there were operas, Taiwanese operas and cartoons. In modern times, there are also films based on the legend of the White Snake, modern dances, new novels and so on. This story appeared in the name of Legend of the White Snake, probably in the late Qing Dynasty, and there was no fixed name before.

The Legend of the White Snake is not only circulated in China, but also made into a movie in Japan. French sinologist stanislas Julien also translated The Legend of the White Snake into French.

Because the story of Legend of the White Snake was mainly passed down from mouth to mouth in the early days, different versions and details were derived. Some original stories ended with the White Snake being suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, some versions had the plot that the White Snake gave birth, and some versions had the happy ending that the son of the White Snake won the first prize and sacrificed the pagoda to save his mother. But the basic elements of this story are generally believed to have existed in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At present, the earliest shaping story of the white snake legend is recorded in Feng Menglong's Warning Story, Volume 28, White Snake Leifeng Pagoda in Yongzhen. In the early years of Qing Dynasty, Huang Tu's "Leifeng Pagoda" (Wang Shan Pavilion) was the earliest opera in China. He only wrote that the white snake was suppressed under the Leifeng pagoda, and there was no sacrifice to the pagoda. Later, The Old Manuscript of Liyuan (probably written by Chen's father and daughter, but the existing score is incomplete) is a widely circulated book, with the plot that a white snake gives birth to a child.