李寄斩蛇 / Li Ji Slays the Snake
李寄斩蛇 / Li Ji Slays the Snake is the action story in 06.搜神记： 二十四孝这口锅，干宝不背 where Li Ji volunteers to face a giant snake that has been consuming sacrificed girls. She brings a dog, sword, and bait, kills the snake, and sees the remains of earlier victims.
The episode uses the tale to pull [[SouShenJi|《搜神记》]] away from a purely obedient or moralizing image. Li Ji’s courage exposes the social failure around her: the village and authorities have accepted sacrifice as routine, while one girl treats the monster as something that can be fought. That makes the story a classical strange-tale extension of Ordinary People Resistance and Female Self-Possession.
Connections
- [[SouShenJi|《搜神记》]] and [[GanBao|干宝]] - source text and compiler context.
- Strange Tale Moral Pluralism - the tale’s place beside filial, ghost, omen, and monster stories.
- Ordinary People Resistance - action against normalized harm.
- Female Self-Possession - Li Ji as a girl character whose agency is central to the story.
- Story Motif Transmission - monster-slaying and sacrificed-maiden motifs as reusable story material.