This event alarmed a hero named Hou Yi, who climbed to the top of the Kunlun Mountain, and with all his divine power, drew his bow and shot down the nine extra suns in one fell swoop.
Hou Yi made a great achievement and was honored and loved by the people, many of whom came to learn from him. The treacherous Peng Meng was also involved.
Soon, Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang'e. In addition to teaching hunting, Hou Yi was also a good teacher. Hou Yi, in addition to the art of hunting, all day long with his wife, people envy this couple of love.
One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit friends and seek Taoism, and coincidentally met the Queen Mother who passed by, and asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that by taking this medicine, one could instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal.
However, Hou Yi couldn't leave his wife behind, so he temporarily gave the medicine to Chang'e to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in the treasure box of her dresser, but Pengmeng saw it.
Three days later, Houyi led his disciples to go out hunting, but Pengmeng pretended to be sick and stayed behind.
Shortly after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the mansion with a sword in his hand and forced Chang E to hand over the immortality pill.
Chang E knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, and in a moment of crisis, she made a split-second decision, turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp.
Chang E swallowed the medicine, the body immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window, flying toward the sky. Because Chang'e attached to her husband, they flew down to the closest to the earth on the moon became immortal.
In the evening, Hou Yi returned home and his maids cried about what happened during the day. Hou Yi was shocked and furious, and drew his sword to kill the villains, but Peng Meng escaped. The company's newest product is a new product, which will be available in the market in the near future. Houyi, who was devastated, looked up at the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and clear, and there is a swaying figure like Chang'e.
Hou Yi hurriedly sent people to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruits, and sacrificed to Chang'e, who was fond of herself in the Moon Palace.
When the people heard the news that Chang'e had run to the moon and become immortal, they set up incense under the moon and prayed to the kind Chang'e for good luck and peace. From then on, the custom of moon worship at Mid-Autumn Festival spread in the folklore.
Another version is:
Legend has it that Houyi and Chang'e are both from Yao time. The myth says that during Yao time, there were ten suns in the sky at the same time, scorching the land, drying up the crops, and making people so hot that they could not breathe and fell on the ground unconscious. Because of the heat, some strange birds and beasts came out from the dry rivers and lakes and the flame-like forests, and they brutalized the people everywhere.
The disasters on earth alarmed the gods in heaven, and Chang Jun, the emperor of heaven, ordered Hou Yi, who was good at sealing arrows, to come down to earth to assist Yao in removing the suffering of the people. Hou Yi came down to earth with a red bow and a pocket of white arrows given to him by the Heavenly Emperor, as well as his beautiful wife, Chang'e, with him.
Hou Yi immediately began the battle to shoot the sun. He removed the red bow from his shoulder, took out the white arrows, and shot one by one at the arrogant sun, and in an instant nine of the ten suns were shot away, only because Yao thought that leaving one sun behind would be useful to the people, he stopped Hou Yi from continuing to shoot. This is the famous story of Hou Yi shooting the sun.
But Hou Yi's exploits were met with jealousy by the other gods, who went to the emperor of the heavens with slanderous rumors, causing him to finally alienate Hou Yi and eventually banish him to the earth forever. Houyi and his wife Chang'e had to live in seclusion on earth, and Houyi hunted for a living.
How did Chang'e run to the moon? There are different stories in the ancient books. According to the record of "Huainanzi", Hou Yi felt sorry for his wife, who was banished to the earth, so he went to the Queen Mother of the West to ask for the medicine of immortality, so that the two of them could live in harmony forever in the world. Chang'e, however, was not accustomed to a life of misery, and when Hou Yi was not at home, she stole all the immortality pills and fled to the moon. Another theory is the record of Qu Yuan's (about 340 years ago) "Heavenly Question", which said that Hou Yi was unfaithful to Chang E and had an affair with He Bo's wife, which aroused Chang E's great dissatisfaction, so she left Hou Yi and ran away to the sky. After Chang'e ran to the moon, she soon regretted it, remembering her husband's usual benefits to her and the warmth of the human world, comparing the loneliness in the moon, doubly miserable.
Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty wrote:
The candle shadow of the mica screen is deep, and the star of the Yangtze River is gradually falling;
Chang E should regret stealing the elixir, and the blue sea and the blue sky are in her heart at night.
Song dynasty Su Shi wrote in the lyrics of "Song of Songs in Water"
"When is the bright moon available? I don't know what year it is in the palace in the sky. I want to go home by the wind, but I am afraid that the jade palace is too high to be cold. I want to go back by the wind, but I am afraid that the jade tower will be too cold for me. When will I be on earth?"
Chou e was originally called Chang e, which was changed to Chang e in the Western Han Dynasty to avoid the taboo of Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Dynasty. Some people combined the poetic meaning of Li Shangyin and the lyric meaning of Su Shi. Make a couplet to summarize her run to the moon: "The elixir should not have been stolen, to see the blue sea and green sky, night after night where this heart is sent; When will the bright moon be there, afraid of the agate tower and jade building, depending on the high place is not cold."
Relationship between Chang'e and Journey to the West
The Heavenly Puff Marshal in the Heavenly River was relegated to the lower realm and mistakenly cast into a pig's fetus to become the later Porky Pig due to drunkenness and molestation of Chang'e. Chang'e's Jade Rabbit came down to earth to become a demon, and was later subdued by Taiyin Xingjun and Chang'e to recover the Moon Palace, removing the Tang Monk and his disciples on the way to fetch scriptures in the West.