The Legend Of White Snake In Modern Society

As one of the four Chinese folklores,The legend of White Snake is famous to every Chinese.The four characters Bai Suzhen,Xiao Qing,Xu Xian and Fa Hai are all changing a lot and become more and more attractive.The fantastic story and the meaning of it bringing the beautiful views such as The West Lake and The Lei Feng Tower together become the most romantic places of interest of China.People like Bai Suzhen who gives up everything for love as well as they like the legend so they make efforts to develop it.However, most people don’t know that Bai Suzhen was a horrible monster who ate people’s hearts,Xu Xian was the person who killed Bai Suzhen in person,and Xiao Qing used to be a green fish and once had a child with Xu Xian......If you want to know the real story,looking back to the history and doing a lot of research may help you.The legend of White Snake spreads almost a thousand years and constantly being replayed on TV these years.This is not a coincidence. First, the story involves the eternal theme of humanity-love which people will certainly not miss.What’s more,The legend of White Snake is very great to be played on the screen.Eastern beauties, handsome young man,women changing into snakes, amazing magics......no wonder so many film companies spent much money on it!Above all, the first part of this paper will be the development of The legend of White Snake,and then some of the classical texts are chose to discus the meaning of the legend in modern society.The second, third and fourth parts of this paper select three most representative works-Legend of White Snake,Green Snake,Its Love to analyze,trying to find out the changes with time goes by.The fifth part mostly tells the common and different points among these three works in "illegal love", " love, desire, Law", " Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism " areas,again to appreciate the beauty of the love legend.