http://www.chinahistoryforum.com/...628&st=15&#last
the legend of white snake is well know love story in china.
there are many tv series based on this story. i watched the hong kong version when i was very little. but saddly i don't remember much about it.
i watched the new taiwan/singapore version last year. i love the white snake.... so pretty.....




new new legend of white snake(mainland version)
xu xian an white snake



green snake and white snake(taiwan/singapore version)






new legend of white snake(hong kong version)

Yep, the actress who played the White Snake in the Taiwan/Singapore version is Fann Wong (real name Fan Wenfang), one of the top actresses in Singapore.

Are the Singapore, Hong Kong, And mainland versions simular or are they almost completly different.

Both actress..that Taiwanese actress and Fan Wong.. are indeed pretty.

i don;t remember much about the hong kong version. the mainland version haven't been released yet.

the taiwan/singapore verion is a little bit different from the folklore. in this version, xue xian suicided after white snake was captured by fa hai. 20 years later, their son learned magics from green snake and saved his mother. the monk fa hai admited what he did was wrong.

hong kong version was a classic, really cool and all. The tw/S'pore version is kind of crappy as the story are really twisted.

I've only watched the Hong Kong version, it seem xu xien's actress is a women and not a man.

Someone....Can you help me to find the story about the legend of white snake in full version??can u give the url...Plz....I want to read it...

http://www.chinapage.com/wsnake.html
^The Legend with illustrations.

New legend of white snake (Hong Kong version)
White snake: Angie Chiu Ngaa Chi
Xu Xian: Cecilia Yip Tong (cross role)
Green snake: Maggie Chan

Comments: Old, but good on the eyes.

Green snake and white snake (Taiwan/Singapore version)
White Snake: Fann Wong
Xu Xian: Christopher Lee
Green Snake: Zhang Yuyuan

Comments: Pretty mangled and looks nothing like the original

New legend of white snake (Mainland version)
White snake: Liu Tao
Xu Xian: ??
Green Snake: Chen Sa Sa

Comments: Have not seen it yet.

I only saw the Shaw Brothers's "madam white snake"(bai she chuan) opera version, made in 1962, with Lin Dai , wich i really liked, & the Tsui Hark 's version "green snake", with Maggie Cheung & Joey Wong , kind of weird (we're talking about Tsui Hark ), but really beautiful & haunting, with all the obsessions of Tsui Hark about corruption & decay.

They are sure very attractive snakes!