Stories and legends about snakes

1. The Farmer and the Snake: On a cold winter's day, the farmer returning home from the market found a snake by the side of the road and thought it was frozen, so he put it in his arms. The snake was frightened, and when it fully awoke, it instinctively bit the farmer and finally killed him. Before he died, the farmer regretted and said, "I wanted to do a good deed, but I jeopardized my own life because of my shallow knowledge, so I have suffered such retribution.

2, the legend of the White Snake: is the story of the White Snake White Snake, White Snake, also known as the legend of the White Snake, Leifeng Pagoda Legend, etc., is one of the four great folk legends of ancient China, which tells the practice of a thousand years of the White Snake into the White Snake, with the Green Snake Green came to the West Lake in Hangzhou, and the pharmacy fellows Xu Xian met and fell in love with marriage, and then by the monk Fahai interfered with a series of stories of sadness and happiness.

3, Jiao Snake into a dragon: Legend has it that the snake 500 years into Jiao, Jiao thousand years into a dragon, the dragon and then 500 years to grow horns, and then a thousand years to grow wings, it will become a dragon. Therefore, the dragon is called "big dragon", snake for "small dragon". Zuozhuan" "Mengzi" books will be juxtaposed with dragons and snakes, such as "deep mountains and swamps, real dragons and snakes", "dragons and snakes live" and so on. Visible to the ancients on the understanding of the dragon and snake is a historical and cultural phenomenon, snake and dragon have an inseparable link. Tracing history, the ancients first took the snake as a sacred object.

4, human head and snake body: our country from the myth of the opening of the Pangu, to the Chinese ancestor Nuwa, Fu Xi, Regulus, are "human head and snake body". Those who are called saints by Confucians are almost always "related" to snakes. Yao's mother, Qingdu, married a red snake and gave birth to Yao; Shun's mother, Shun Deng, saw a big rainbow and gave birth to Shun; Xia was a dragon, and "Xia Hou's serpent body and human head". According to the legend, when Xia Yu chiseled the mountain of Longmen and reached the empty rock, there was a god with a snake body and a human face, who showed him the Eight Trigrams and gave him a jade slip. Yu was given a jade slip, which he then used to calm the waters and the soil. China's feudal era of imperial concubines, since Liu Bang's mother, "dreaming of the dragon" after the birth of Liu Bang, most of the dreams in the Palace as a snake "lover", in order to give birth to the "dragon son".