[This is what I wrote in 2003 about a Chinese myth, and it is widely spreaded in Chinese sp group, I take proud of taking it as my first story :)] For the background knowledge of this myth, please refer to here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake **************************** Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals in Chinese ancient stories, disguised himself as a man selling dumplings at the Broken Bridge near the West Lake in Hangzhou. A boy called Xu Xian purchased some dumplings from Lv Dongbin without knowing that they are pills leading to immortality. After taking these dumplings, he didn't feel hungry for the next three days, he felt so curious that he went back to ask why. Lv Dongbin laughed and carried Xu Xian to the bridge, where he grabbed Xu Xian's feet, suspended him upside down and caused him to vomit the dumplings into the lake. In the lake, there was a white snake (Lady White) spirit who had been practicing T...