For other uses, see Legend of the White Snake (disambiguation).
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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 Pinyin
Bái Shé Zhuàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Baak6 Se4 Cyun4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Pe̍k-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]
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