The legend of West Lake is one of the local folk legends in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and is on the list of national intangible cultural heritage. West Lake, with its beautiful mountains and waters, snow and moon, has been a place for romance since ancient times. There are many bridges associated with romantic stories. For example, the Broken Bridge. In the Legend of the White Snake, one of the four great classical legends in my country, Xu Xian and the White Snake Lady met here and returned to the city on the same boat. Later, they met again here and reconciled, which was performed into the excerpt of "Meeting at the Broken Bridge", which is a reserved repertoire in many operas. Another example is the Xiling Bridge, which was called "Su Xiaoxiao's Heart-to-Heart Place". According to legend, Su Xiaoxiao, a poet in the Southern Qi Dynasty, was talented and self-respecting. Once she was traveling by car, she met the young talent Ruan Yu on the Baidi Bridge, and they fell in love at first sight. Su Xiaoxiao improvised a poem: "I ride in a carriage with oil-painted walls, and my lover rides a green horse. Where can we be together? Under the pines and cypresses of Xiling (i.e. Xiling)." Forced by the times and her life experience, Su Xiaoxiao could not get along with Ruan Yu. She became ill due to her worries and was buried by the Xiling Bridge after her death. The tomb pavilion was called "Mucai Pavilion". The legend of the White Snake During the Qingming Festival, the banks of the West Lake were full of flowers and green willows, and the Broken Bridge was crowded with tourists. It was really a beautiful picture of spring. Suddenly, two beautiful girls quietly rose from the bottom of the West Lake. What happened? How can people rise from the water? It turned out that they were two snake spirits in human form. Although so, they had no intention of harming people. They only came to the West Lake to play because they envied the colorful life in the world. One of them was called Bai Suzhen (White Snake) and the other was called Xiaoqing. But the sky suddenly got angry, and it started to rain heavily. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing were soaked and had nowhere to hide. They were worried, and suddenly they felt an umbrella above their heads. They turned around and saw a gentle, fair and delicate young scholar holding an umbrella to protect them from the rain. Bai Suzhen and the young scholar looked at each other, and they blushed at the same time, and they fell in love with each other. Xiaoqing saw it and said hurriedly: "Thank you! May I ask your name, sir?" The young scholar said: "My name is Xu Xian, and I live by this broken bridge." Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing also hurriedly introduced themselves. From then on, the three of them often met, and Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian's relationship became better and better. Not long after, they got married and opened a "Baohetang" pharmacy, and lived a happy life! Since "Baohetang" cured many difficult diseases and provided free medicines to the poor, the pharmacy's business became more and more prosperous. More and more people came to Bai Suzhen for treatment. People affectionately called Bai Suzhen Bai Niangzi. However, the prosperity of "Baohetang" and the happy life of Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen annoyed one person. Who was it? That was Fahai, a monk from Jinshan Temple. Because people's diseases were cured by Bai Suzhen, fewer people went to Jinshan Temple to burn incense and pray to the Bodhisattva. The incense was not prosperous, so monk Fahai was naturally not happy. One day, he came to "Baohetang" again and saw Bai Suzhen treating people. He couldn't help but feel jealous. He took a closer look and saw that Bai Suzhen was not a mortal, but a white snake, a snake spirit! Although Fahai had some magic skills, his mind was not right. After seeing Bai Suzhen's identity, he wanted to break up Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen and bring down "Baohetang" all day long. So, he secretly called Xu Xian to the temple and said to him: "You are a snake spirit, leave quickly, otherwise, she will eat you!" Xu Xian was very angry when he heard it. He thought: My wife is kind-hearted and her love for me is deeper than the sea. Even if she is a snake spirit, she will not harm me. Besides, she is pregnant now, how can I abandon her! Fahai saw that Xu Xian did not fall for his trick, and he was angry and locked Xu Xian in the temple. In the "Baohe Hall", Bai Niangzi was anxiously waiting for Xu Xian to come back. One day, two days, left and right, Xu Xian never came back, Bai Niangzi was extremely anxious. She went out to look for him, and finally found out that Xu Xian was "detained" by the monk Fahai in Jinshan Temple, so Bai Niangzi hurriedly brought Xiaoqing to Jinshan Temple and begged Fahai to release Xu Xian. When Fahai saw Bai Niangzi, he sneered and said, "You bold snake demon, I advise you to leave quickly, otherwise, don't blame me for being rude!" Seeing that Fahai refused to let her go, Bai Niangzi took off the golden hairpin on her head, shook it in the wind, and set off a huge wave, heading straight for Jinshan Temple. Fahai took off his cassock and turned it into a long embankment, blocking the temple gate. When the flood rose one foot, the long embankment would be one foot higher, and when the flood rose ten feet, the long embankment would be ten feet higher. No matter how big the waves were, they could not flood over. In addition, Bai Niangzi was pregnant and could not fight Fahai. When the stalemate was at a standoff, Fahai cheated and put Bai Niangzi in a golden bowl and pressed her under Leifeng Pagoda, thus separating the loving couple Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi alive. At present, Leifeng Pagoda still stands not far from the riverside of West Lake, becoming a landscape of West Lake. After Xiaoqing escaped from Jinshan Temple, she practiced martial arts in the mountains for decades and finally defeated Fahai, forced him into the belly of a crab and rescued Bai Niangzi. From then on, she lived happily with Xu Xian and their children and never separated again. [2] Lingyin Temple Lingyin Temple is a famous Buddhist temple in China, also known as Yunlin Temple. It is located in the northwest of West Lake in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in the foothills of Lingyin Mountain between Feilai Peak and Beigao Peak. It is a tourist attraction with a long history and pleasant scenery in Hangzhou. It is the earliest Buddhist temple in China and one of the ten ancient temples in China. Lingyin Temple was founded in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (326 AD), with a history of more than 1,670 years. The Indian monk Huili came to China to preach. Later, because of the strange and secluded scenery in this place, he thought it was "the place where immortals hide", so he built a temple there and named it "Lingyin". During the Five Dynasties, Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, was a devout Buddhist and paid great attention to the construction of Lingyin Temple. At that time, Lingyin Temple had nine floors, eighteen pavilions, seventy-seven halls, and three thousand monks, becoming a famous Buddhist temple in the Jiangnan region. Famous monks such as Yongming Yanshou and Dahui Zonggao have served as abbots of this temple. The legendary monk Ji Dian also became a monk in this temple. The thirteenth ancestor of the Pure Land Sect, Master Yin Guang, also served as the abbot of this temple, starting the trend of Lingyin Temple as a Pure Land temple. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the monk Pu Ji compiled the "Five Lamps Collection" in Lingyin Temple, which became one of the classics of Zen Buddhism. Since its establishment, Lingyin Temple has been destroyed and rebuilt more than 10 times. The two most recent large-scale renovations were in 1956 and 1975. Today's Lingyin Temple was restored and rebuilt on the basis of the reconstruction in the late Qing Dynasty, and its layout is roughly similar to that of Jiangnan temples. The main entrance of Lingyin Temple is the Heavenly King Hall, on which hangs the imperial plaque inscribed "Yunlin Zen Temple" by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. The front niche in the hall enshrines Maitreya Buddha, and on both sides are the four heavenly kings with wide-open eyes. On the back of the Maitreya Buddha statue is a statue of Weituo Bodhisattva holding a vajra, which is a relic from the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 700 years. On June 7, 2008, the West Lake Legend was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.