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I always remember a scene when I was a child: a summer evening in the streets, the trees are shady, the sunset is like fire, and the sunset is red on a large oil painting poster in the movie theater. On the poster, a woman dressed in white in Peking Opera makeup holds a long sword with a smile on the corner of her mouth, heroic and beautiful. The name of that movie was "The Legend of the White Snake". Maybe that's when I fell in love with Baek Su-jung.
Broken bridge, borrowing umbrellas, stealing fairy grass, flooding Jinshan...... There is no legend more well-known and familiar than "White Snake". In the West, the snake is the spokesman of the devil, but in China, it has since become the embodiment of truth, goodness and beauty. Bai Suzhen, who sacrificed everything for the ordinary and cowardly Xu Xian, almost concentrated all the charm and traditional virtues of oriental women. In the words of Fargo, if you don't love her, "it's just inhuman".
From the Tang legend "The Legend of the White Snake", the Southern Song Dynasty script "Pisces Fan Pendant", to the Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "White Lady Yongzhen Leifeng Tower", the Qing Dynasty Fang Chengpei, Huang Tuxuan's "Leifeng Pagoda", and then to the lyrics "The Legend of the Righteous Demon", Li Bihua and Tsui Hark's "Green Snake", ...... How many people are obsessed with her and get drunk, writing songs. Even Lu Xun cheered for the fall of Leifeng Tower. In fact, what if Leifeng Pagoda does not collapse? She has already broken all shackles in the millennium and become an immortal victor.
From a very young age, I wanted to write a story for her. In this story, there are also broken bridges, borrowed umbrellas, stealing fairy grass, and flooding Jinshan, as well as Xu Xian, White Snake, Xiaoqing, and Fahai...... However, the plot of the whole story is completely different, and everyone's personality and fate are also very different.
For example, in this story, Xu Xian is no longer the mediocre and cowardly pharmacy apprentice or scholar, but a dazzling man who can be worthy of Bai Suzhen, and who dares to love and hate. The location of the story is not limited to the West Lake and Jinshan Temple, but a more magnificent stage. Only such a stage can accommodate their love and legends.
As with all versions, the story takes place during the Song Dynasty. In many people's impressions, the Song Dynasty was an era as weak and bully as Xu Xian. But in fact, the political, economic, and cultural ...... of the Song Dynasty They are the highest peaks of ancient Chinese history, and the people of the Song Dynasty lived a rich and colorful life far ahead of other countries in the world. If it weren't for the Mongol Iron Cavalry, which swept the world, China might have entered a capitalist society long before Europe. Of course, this is just off topic.
All in all, this is an era of comfort, but also an era of war, an era of heroes and heroes. I think that Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, who live in this era, should never be just children living in a corner of the West Lake, chanting the wind and the moon on the broken bridge and Su Causeway. They should have a more wonderful and magnificent, singing and crying legendary life.
To subvert and reshape such a classic story, it takes courage in addition to determination. Fortunately, many people have done this before me. The only thing I can guarantee is that this will be one of the most special and unforgettable White Snake stories of all.