A cold joke about fahai

Because the protagonist is different, the angle of depiction will be different, and it is very likely that something will subvert people's three views.

From the written records about Fahai, we see a real monk. There is a story in Feng Menglong's Warning, which describes the fall of a snake demon in Fahai. The story goes like this: when the sea first arrived in Jinshan, it was still a desolate hill with a white python lurking on it. This kind of snake often brings disasters to the world and local people. Fahai drove away the white snake with his own ability, renovated Jinshan Temple and became the founder of a temple. This story analyzes the process of killing white snakes in the sea from the perspective of people. Fahai is indeed a Taoist. He not only drove away the snake demon, but also built a temple to benefit the people.

Judging from the story of the white snake, the protagonist has changed. First of all, the white snake is the protagonist throughout the whole story. Kneeling in one episode is impossible. If you want the white snake to live from beginning to end, you have to consider how to polish this monster. Pack the white snake into a kind person who knows how to repay kindness and believes that people are inherently good. To this end, Fahai, who has a sworn enemy with the white snake, must be a bad person, otherwise the contrast will be very poor.

Therefore, in the new legend of the white snake, Fahai's pursuit of the white snake was not because he learned that the monk was upholding justice, but because the white snake stole his elixir. He hated it for so many years and it was endless.

It is precisely because "The Legend of the White Snake" is much more colorful and widely praised than the story of Fahai fighting the snake demon, so that the folk image of Fahai is limited to this work.