The evolvement and development ofLegend of White Snakewent through a long period,the main idea of which changed from a beauty snake inducing a young man to White Lady's dying for love.The worksWhite Lady Was Beaten Down in Leifeng Pagodawritten by FENG Mong-long acted an important role in its evolvement.FENG's works established a basic tone for the beauty snake's image changing from desire to love,and affected the development ofLegend of White Snake.The works added some plots and modified the main idea of past stories of snake wife,so we can find that the idea of women's charm harming young men and young men must disputing the good looks existed in old stories of snake wife,but in FENG's works,this idea had been changed.Even though FENG Meng-long had point out that young men should refuse the temptation of women's charm at his story's end,but the body of the works mentioned White Lady's sincere love to XU Xuan.The change of main idea came from FENG Mong-long's letters sense and feeling tendency,which solidified the important role of FENG Mong-long in the development process ofLegend of White Snake.