Bai Niangzi
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Bai Niangzi, also known as Lady White, is a beautiful woman who meets Xu Xuan. She is later revealed to be a white snake demon. She marries Xu Xuan and uses her powers to help him, but also threatens to drown the city when he tries to leave her.
When
- First attested
- 1624 CE
- Attested period
- 1624 – 1624
- Historical notes
- First appears in Feng Menglong's 1624 collection Stories to Caution the World.
Relationships
- allied with
- Qingqing
- enemy of
- Fahai
- consort of
- Xu Xuan
- manifests as
- White Snake
- served by
- Qingqing
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“He meets a beautiful woman in white (Bai Niangzi/Lady White) and her maid in blue-green named Qingqing, (青青), a fish spirit) on a boat in the rain. He lends them an umbrella. Bai Niangzi claims to be a widow.”
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