Who is the author of The Legend of the White Snake?

Feng Menglong, a writer in Ming Dynasty.

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Legend has it that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, a snake demon trained for thousands of years turned into a beautiful woman named Bai Niangzi, and her maid Qingqing (also known as Xiaoqing, herring and green snake) met Xu Xuan (or), the king of pharmacy, at the West Lake in Hangzhou, and fell in love at first sight and helped each other in the same boat. White snake wanted to have sex with the scholar, so she married him.

The white and blue quilt cover reveals its true colors, and it is a white snake herring that has been taught for thousands of years. Then Fahai took a bowl and put it in front of Leisi Peak, where a seven-level pagoda named Leifeng was built. The tower was always white and green.

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The legend of White Snake has a long history and is one of the four folk love legends in China (the other three are Liang Zhu, Meng Jiangnv and Cowherd and Weaver Girl).

The legend of White Snake was mature and popular in Qing Dynasty, and it was a model of China folk collective creation. This paper describes a tortuous love story between a snake spirit who cultivates human form and human beings. Stories include the story of Wupeng boat borrowing an umbrella, the story of White Snake stealing Ganoderma lucidum, the story of flooding Jinshan, the story of broken bridge, the story of Leifeng Tower, the story of Xu Xian Shilin sacrificing the son of the tower, and the story of Fahai escaping from the crab's stomach.

It expresses the people's admiration for the free love between men and women and their hatred for the unreasonable bondage of feudal forces. It was listed as "the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage". According to this story, many TV dramas and cartoons were filmed.