Snakes also turn white. White cobras have been found in Guangzhou and Hunan. A golden snake made in Japan is also white. Under the feeding conditions, the body color of this white snake can be passed on to future generations. 1973, the Liaoning Snake Island expedition team once captured a small white poisonous snake in Snake Island, with red eyes, much like rabbit's eyes. In Shennongjia forest area of Hubei province, there are many white animals, including white snakes. Recently, Hangzhou Zoo caught a small snake in Xiaoshan, white and slightly transparent. It is said that snake gall can be seen through the abdominal wall. Whether this little snake is the larva of black-browed snake or golden snake has not been identified.

There are many patterns in the color change of bungarus multicinctus. It was reported in Taiwan Province Province of China as early as 1962, and the new findings in recent years were summarized and analyzed the year before last. Under normal circumstances, the back of this poisonous snake is black and white with a half-ring pattern, and the white ring is as white as silver, so it is called a silver ring snake. But among individuals with color changes, some are light brown and white semi-circular stripes; Some are all black, leaving only a few white semicircles in the front and back parts of the body; There are also white semicircles that have all disappeared, but there are still more than 30 white spots on the back; In addition, there are other color changes. If you don't look at these discoloration carefully, there will often be classification errors. A discolored specimen of bungarus multicinctus was collected in Hainan Island, and it was named Black Ring Snake, which was published as a new record in China.

The color change of snake is caused by the expansion or contraction of pigment cells in skin, especially related to the amount of melanin in cells. If there is more, the body color will turn black, and if there is less, it will become lighter or even white. Sometimes it is a temporary color change, and sometimes it becomes a long-term or permanent color change due to changes in environmental conditions and the physiological state of snakes.

Although snakes have turned white, white individuals are very few after all, so they are rare and strange. Things that are considered magical have existed since ancient times. Emperor gaozu Liu Bangju sword to cut the white snake to rebel against the red flag, saying that the cut white snake was born by Bai Di, representing the Qin Dynasty, and Liu Bangze was the son of Chi Di. Killing the white snake is an act of god and has won the support of many people.

The legend of white snake is a folk legend that has spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces since the Song Dynasty. The white snake that became the "White Queen" is not explained in the book, but according to Feng Menglong's "The Legend of Warning", it is a "barrel-sized python", which is of course fictional, because there are no pythons in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and no pythons that have changed themselves have been found.