China story story

Legend of the White Snake is a traditional story in China.

Zhenjiang city in song dynasty. The White Snake is a snake demon who has practiced for thousands of years. In order to repay the scholar Xu Xian for saving his life in his last life, he turned into a human figure to repay his kindness. Later, I met the green snake essence Xiaoqing and they got together. Mrs White Snake used his magic to get to know Xu Xian and marry him.

After the marriage, the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple told Xu Xian that White Snake was a snake demon, and Xu Xian was skeptical. Later, according to Fahai's method, Xu Xian asked the White Snake to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs White Snake had to show his true colors, but he scared Xu Xian half to death.

The White Snake went to Heaven to steal the fairy grass Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian. Fahai tricked Xu Xian into Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest. The White Snake fought with Fahai, flooded Jinshan Temple, but hurt other creatures.

After giving birth, the White Snake who broke the dogma was put into a bowl by Fahai and suppressed under the Leifeng Tower. Mrs. White Snake's son became the best scholar when he grew up. He went to the tower to worship his mother, saved her and reunited the whole family. And the lovely Xiaoqing also found Xianggong.

Characteristics of traditional stories

1, close to life

Although the contents of folk stories have different degrees of fantasy elements, they are all based on real life, and their themes, roles and main plots are in line with the life logic when the stories are circulated. From myths and legends to metamorphosis, animal stories, fables, life stories and jokes, the fantasy of their contents and artistic techniques is weakened in turn, and the reality is enhanced in turn.

2. Most of them

Generally, it refers to the time and place where the story takes place, and the name of the hero of the story is often vague and uncertain. The narrative of the story pays attention to the narrative of the key plot, but does not describe all the details. The interest and attraction of the story mainly lies in the vividness of the plot.

Step 3 type

As a kind of collective creation, folk stories have obvious typological tendency in plot, theme and characters. Theme typology means that many stories express the same theme, such as expressing the desire to get rich or the weak win, praising wit and eloquence, satirizing stupidity and so on.