When Ying Taiwan

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Xǔ Xiān（許仙） prepared the wine, hid the talisman inside of his shirt. He tells his wife to come and share a drink with him. She does exactly that so her husband would not be suspicious. She thinks she is powerful enough that a bit of the wine would not hurt her. Boy was she wrong. Minutes after, she collapses onto the floor and turns into a snowy white serpent with a pair of ruby eyes.   Xiǎo Qīng（小青） walks into the room and sees her beloved mentor suffers in agony. She shouted at Xǔ Xiān "How could you! How could you do such a thing! She did nothing wrong." "She is a serpent demon, there is no way of knowing what she could have done to me!" yelled Xǔ Xiān. "I love the woman, but not THIS CREATURE." Xǔ Xiān left the city and entered the temple. Not knowing that Bái Sù Zhēn（白素貞） is with child. He became a monk. Bái Sù Zhēn was devastated. However, she thinks that once Xǔ Xiān sees that she is with his child ...

As Xǔ Xiān（許仙） asks for permission to be wed and getting ready for the wedding, he runs into a Doashi （道士） . "Mr. Xǔ you should be careful, you are sharing a lot of time with some sort of evil." says the Doashi . Xǔ Xiān doesn't pay much attention to his words. Xǔ Xiān carries on with the wedding. Xǔ Xiān and Bái Sù Zhēn（白素貞） lived a period of happiness. They opened up a new herbal medicine shop. The business was great. There have been years since the wedding. With the fast approaching of the Dragon Boat Festival, all the others were preparing for the festivities. People adorn their door with Asian mugwort (艾草 ài cǎo ) and wearing sachet (香包 xiāng bāo) to wear off evil spirits . Two days before May 5th, a monk who is also a Doashi passes by the front door. The monk named Fǎ Hǎi（法海） pulls Xǔ Xiān aside and tells him that he has been married to a serpent in human form. Xǔ Xiān argues with him. Fǎ Hǎi says that he has ways of proving it. Fǎ Hǎi gives him a talisma...

It's been years since I first heard the story of the white serpent. I forgot when I heard it or who I heard it from, but the story is pretty much the same. A schoolboy was on his way to the market when he met a group of kids casting stones on a white serpent. He rescued the snake and set it free, then continued his journey to the marketplace. Years elapsed, the white serpent is now a powerful demon that can turn into the shape of a human. Her human form is an attractive lady named Bái Sù Zhēn（白素貞）. She knows the boy reincarnated as an educated young man named Xǔ Xiān（許仙） who lives near Xihu（西湖）. She goes to Xihu to wait for him. At Xihu, she meets a green serpent. The serpent asks Bái to be its mentor. Bái agrees and turns it into a girl dressed in green. Bái calls her Xiǎo Qīng（小青）. Xǔ Xiān works for his brother-in-law at an herbal medicine shop and lives with his sister and brother-in-law. One day a monk comes to the shop and asks Xǔ Xiān to go to the temple ...