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The power of the realgar wine was best manifested in a folk tale, "Lady White Snake." After centuries of ceaseless efforts-meditating, disciplining herself, mastering the energies of the universe-a white snake took human form and married a beloved intellectual. In the Duanwu festival, as everyone would drink realgar wine, which was good for human but lethal for snakes, Lady White still accepted the toast of her suspicious husband who had been warned by a Buddhist monk that his beautiful wife was a thousand-year-old snake. Lady White suffered great torture and finally changed back to her true form-a huge snake, which scared her husband to death. To bring her lover back to life, the lady took great risks and stole magic weeds from heaven. The love story of a snake yearning for human love and an intellectual finally ended in tragedy.