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This book is written in vernacular, and the language is concise and easy to understand. A white snake spirit who had been practicing for thousands of years turned into a beautiful woman because of her nostalgia for earthly life. She came to Hangzhou and married a man named Xu Xuan. She pursued love and happiness wholeheartedly and had no intention of harming anyone, but she was persecuted by some social forces and theocratic forces, and was finally suppressed by Zen Master Fahai under the Leifeng Pagoda.

The legend of "Leifeng Pagoda" is a deeply touching tragedy. This drama takes the love twists and turns of White Snake and Xu Xian as the main line, showing the profound social contradictions. The white lady in the play is completely free of the monster spirit. She is a passionate, brave, and unyielding woman. She is very good at arranging her life and has rich experience in struggle. However, her love life with Xu Xuan was considered to have gone astray, and was finally suppressed by Fahai, a follower of Tathagata Buddha, under the Leifeng Pagoda. Xu Xuan was also enlightened by Fahai to become a monk. Sixteen years later, Bai's son Xu Shilin won the first prize and came to the West Lake to worship the pagoda. Mother and son met. In addition to jointly condemning Fahai, who was a "wild fox Zen with blue flies and brocades" and a "traitor who alienates human flesh and blood," Bai specifically told his son: "I hope you will reconcile your husband and wife in the future, and you must not be unlucky like your father!" This is completely a sad complaint from women in reality, and profoundly reveals the oppression of women by the male-centered feudal patriarchal system.