Legend of White Snake
"Legend of the White Snake" series, one of which is the transformation of the Nuwa myth into the White Snake Legend. The White Snake Legend is an immortal "rumor" in Chinese folklore that has been accumulated over thousands of years with the help of others. The Legend of the White Snake is confusing, and it is very difficult to find its origin or verify its history of "self-consistency". Is White Snake a beautiful snake on the banks of the Qi River or the West Lake? Is Xiaoqing a green fish in the Qi River or a green snake on the banks of the West Lake? To answer such questions is no different from verifying how much truth and falsehood there is in an ancient myth. Even if scholars bypass one rumor trap after another, the truth they discover will be different, and there will be many opinions. But seeking 1 is necessary. It is the driving force of academia and the responsibility that scholars should shoulder. When Mr. Meng Fanren, a researcher at the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences, flicked off the Thousands of years of dust, it is clear that the origin of the "Legend of the White Snake" is Jinshan Temple, Xujiagou, and Qingyanjue on the banks of the Qishui River in Hebi, Henan. At that time, someone stood up very rudely in an online debate to "refute the rumor": Hangzhou has been prosperous since ancient times, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, it became the country's economic, cultural and even political center, and its scenery is beautiful and unparalleled in the world. It is natural that the poignant love story of the White Snake and Xu Xian was derived from it. If you insist that a rough and bold Henan man and a carefree Henan woman, humming Henan Bangzi and herding sheep, this pair of people are Xu Xian and the White Snake, I really can't accept it. If it can be proved that Xu Xian is from Xujiagou and the White Snake is something from Jinshan Temple on the banks of the Qishui River, I will have to look at the folks in Xujiagou differently. In fact, the love between Xu Xian and the White Snake is just a wonderful legend. It is in In the profound historical culture of the Qi River, the light and airy ones are not very important. The most important thing is that White Snake and Xu Xian were originally the children of the Qi River. They do not have any negative impact on Hangzhou's current promotion of the "City of Love" tourism brand by using the "Legend of the White Snake" and another "Legend of Liang Zhu" originating from the Central Plains. What's more, the ancestor of the netizen who may have lost his temper by the West Lake may be the people who "hummed Henan Bangzi while driving sheep" by the Qi River. It's just that they moved south to Hangzhou under the pressure of the northern grassland peoples. They may have been caught up in Yue Fei's anti-Jin team. They may have expected to return to the Central Plains like Yue Fei, but later, they had no choice but to "live as guests" in Hangzhou and "took Hangzhou for Bianzhou." Academics are just a formality; "Prosperous Henan" is just a "dialogue" across time and space. Although this "dialogue "We cannot bring in White Snake, Xu Xian, Xiaoqing or the like as guests to provide evidence, but it is still quite convincing to implement academic status and look back at the history of the White Snake legend. I would also like to inform that netizen that even "rumor-busting" cannot escape the historical background: during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, when the ancients sang "Wei Snake Wei Snake" in the Book of Songs and pursued romantic love under mulberry trees and in bamboo forests, Hangzhou had not yet "changed the sea and formed the land city of Hangzhou today", and it was still a world of fish and turtles. Recalling the romantic events of the Qi River in the past, White Snake and Xiaoqing hummed the Jiangnan tune and snaked on the shore of the West Lake. Their graceful figures were frozen in the West Lake of Hangzhou, and Leifeng Pagoda is the eternal totem. White Snake and Xiaoqing are the White Snake and the Green Snake. The lines they swing are like the weeping willows swaying in the wind by the West Lake, but their rhythmic sense is quite reminiscent of the legacy of the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions. If we say that the previous life karma of White Snake and Green Snake was deposited in the ancient Shang Dynasty sites of Anyang Huanshui (the former capital of Yinxu) and Hebi Qihe River (the temporary capital of Chaoge), and their influence on today's oracle bone aesthetics is still very far-reaching, then the modern Western version of Marilyn Monroe and today's Chinese version of the "Pink Girl" "Heartthrob" Chen Hao, uniquely fit men's ultimate fantasy of material beauties and women's ultimate pursuit of becoming the best of women. Today's material beauties, who are interpreted by them with their swaying waists on high heels, are nothing more than copies of White Snake and Green Snake, creating a new modern popular version of White Snake and Green Snake. "What does 'Wei She Wei She' mean in the Book of Songs?" Mr. Zhang Shanbao, Director of the Tourism Bureau of Qibin District, Hebi City, asked himself and answered, "It means 'a winding snake, a winding snake'. Of course, in the context of the poem 'lamb's skin, five white silks (pronounced camel, meaning silk knots and silk knots); retreating from the public, Wei She Wei She', my interpretation is a bit literal." According to the popular interpretation, "Wei She" here is pronounced as "(逶迤)", and the poem is about the leisurely life of the nobles, so it is interpreted as "swaggering and complacent", but no matter how it is interpreted, it is still a deep extension of the "snake-like" appearance. In the Book of Songs, "Wei She" has completed the poetic process from "appearance" to "image", which shows that "Wei She" is ancient enough. This at least shows that snakes, as early as the era of the Book of Songs, were covered with cultural cloaks and culturalized by our ancestors. Snakes are not only a kind of long reptiles in the animal kingdom, but also friends who live in harmony with our ancestors and are stamped with cultural imprints. According to experts' investigation: "Wei means to bend, to follow, from the female, from the 禾. It takes the appearance of the ears of grain hanging down and bending, so it is from the 禾"; "Wei" is from the "female", which means it is soft and submissive, so the "Wei" in "Wei She" has a profound meaning. Except for the word "Wei", it is difficult to replace it with other words. The original meaning of "Wei She" refers to a snake that bends with the bends. When used as a noun, its meaning is unlikely to have other understandings. In the "Lianmian Dictionary", the seventh meaning of "Wei She" is: snake. As for the description of the characteristics of things, "Wei She" is no longer an insect or snake, but it still uses a certain characteristic of snakes to describe the characteristics of a certain thing with similar characteristics of snakes. Snakes like to bend, so "Wei She" means "twisting and twisting appearance", and by extension means "curved swinging appearance", "curved graceful appearance", etc.; snakes bend with the curves, so "Wei She" can mean "evil behavior appearance", and by extension means "calm and contented appearance", "graceful posture", etc. And "Xu Yu Wei She" is undoubtedly derived from the characteristics of "bending insects and snakes". "The mountains are like galloping horses, and the water is like a startled snake." The towering Taihang Mountains rush down from west to east, and come to an abrupt end at Anyang and Hebi. The Huanshui River and the Qi River rush out of the Taihang Mountains and meander on the North China Plain. The two banks of the river are the cultural resorts of the Bronze Age China: at the meeting point of the vast mountains and plains, our ancestors looked at the mountains and asked if there were gods living in the mountains and forests, while laying the foundation for the bronze civilization that will benefit the world for generations. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)