2024 Gala – Dance Drama: Legend of the White Snake

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Preface: According to legend, during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a white snake that had been training for a thousand years and transformed into a human being. The first thing White Snake did when she became an adult was to travel with her sister, Green Snake, to the busy, warm and prosperous world they had always longed for.
序：相传南宋绍兴年间，有一白蛇，修炼千年而幻化成人。白蛇成人后的第一件事，便是和妹妹青蛇一起，去她们一直向往的繁华、温暖的烟火人间游历一番。

Act I: The White Snake named herself Bai Suzhen. Her younger sister, the Green Snake, who trained with her, also took human form and was called Xiaoqing. On this day, the White and Green Sisters were visiting the West Lake in Hangzhou, a place known as paradise on earth. In the misty rain, they met Xu Xian, a handsome scholar, on the “Broken Bridge”. Xu Xian fell in love at first sight with the heavenly-looking White Snake and lent her his only umbrella. On the next day, Suzhen returned the umbrella to Xu Xian at his door, and through this borrowing and returning, the two of them developed a love for each other, and they were soon married.
第一幕：白蛇为自己起名素贞。与她一同修炼的妹妹青蛇也化成人形，唤作小青。这日，白青姐妹二人在素有人间天堂之称的杭州西湖游玩。朦胧烟雨中，她们在断桥上遇见了一位英俊书生——许仙。许仙对貌若天仙的白娘子一见倾心，将唯一一把伞借给了她。隔日素贞又登门还伞，这一借一还，二人萌生了情愫，不久便成了亲。

Act 2: After getting married, the couple ran a medicine shop called “Baohe Tang”. The two White and Green serpents healed many people with their magic spells, and naturally, Baohe Tang became famous and business was good. Just as everything was peaceful and beautiful, an uninvited guest suddenly appeared. Fa Hai, a monk at Jinshan Temple, told Xu Xian that Bai Suzhen was a thousand-year-old snake demon. Xu Xian expressed his doubts to Fa Hai. On the night of the Dragon Boat Race, crowds of people were drinking wine and singing, a prosperous scene. In this happy scene, the White Lady Bai Suzhen drank “Xionghuang” wine and was forced to reveal her snake body, Xu Xian saw her turn into a snake demon, and was frightened literally to death. In order to revive her husband, Bai Suzhen decided to go to the Immortal Mountain to steal the magic herb.
第二幕：成婚后，夫妻二人一同经营着一家叫做“保和堂”的药铺。青白二蛇用法术医好了众多百姓，保和堂自然也名声大噪、生意兴隆。就在一切和美之时，一位不速之客突然出现。金山寺的和尚法海告诉许仙，白素贞乃千年蛇妖所化。许仙对法海所言心存疑虑，端午赛龙舟之夜，众人对酒当歌，景象繁盛。此情此景，白娘子喝下了雄黄酒，被迫显出蛇身原形，许仙见娘子变成蛇妖，被吓得咽了气。而白娘子为复活丈夫，决定上仙山盗取灵芝。

Act 3: The monk Fa Hai took advantage of Xu Xian’s fear of the snake demon to trick him into going to the Jinshan Temple and put him under house arrest, which was actually his plan to lure out the White Lady. Knowing that it was a trap, but eager to save her husband, the now-pregnant Bai Suzhen together with the Green Snake rushed to fight with Fa Hai, battling until the sky and earth were overturned and water flooded the Jin ShanTemple before they finally rescued Xu Xian. But in this battle the baby in Bai Suzhen’s womb was disturbed and Bai Suzhen gave birth to a child early.
第三幕：和尚法海利用许仙对蛇妖的恐惧将其骗至金山寺并软禁起来，实则意在引出白娘子。明知是陷阱，但救夫心切，还怀有身孕的白素贞带着小青赶来与法海斗法，直斗到天地翻涌、水漫金山寺才救出许仙，却也在此战中动了胎气，提早产下孩子。

Act 4: Bai Suzhen violated the laws of heaven and hurt many living beings when she flooded Jin Shan Temple, and she deeply regretted her sins. After bidding a tearful farewell to Xu Xian, the Green Snake and her newborn child, she voluntarily threw herself into Fa Hai’s golden alms bowl and was subdued under the Lei Feng Pagoda in Hangzhou. Years later, Bai Suzhen’s son Xu Shilin grew up. He had been learning martial arts with the Green Snake since he was a child, and by now he was already very powerful. The Green Snake’s Xiaoqing’s powers had also increased greatly. The two of them worked together to break open the Leifeng Pagoda and rescue Bai Suzhen.
第四幕：白素贞因在水漫金山时伤害了众多生灵而触犯天条，善良的她深深忏悔于自己的罪过。在和许仙、小青还有刚出世的孩子泪别后，她主动投向了法海的金钵，被镇于雷峰塔之下。多年后，白素贞的儿子许仕林长大，他自小和小青学习武功法术，此时已是法力非凡，小青也是修为大涨。二人合力劈开雷峰塔，救出了白素贞。

Epilogue: The White Lady and Xu Xian, after all their trials and tribulations, are finally reunited and brought together justly. They went hand in hand together towards a happy and fulfilling future……
尾声：白娘子与许仙历经磨难，终得团聚，修成正果。携手走向幸福美满的未来……