The Goddess Chang's fly to the moon

The story should begin with Houyi shooting down the suns. Long long time ago, Houyi and Chang Er were known as a happy couple in heaven and were deeply in love with each other. After Houyi shooting down the suns, the Jade Emperor got so furious that he ordered Houyi, together with Changer, to stay at the earth forever and never return to the heaven. Since then, they suffered from illness and death as ordinary human beings.

One day, Houyi met a Goddess on the top of Kunlun Mountain, the Goddess gave him one pill and told Hou Yi that if one person took the pill he would ascend to Heaven. But Hou Yi was unwilling to part with his wife, so he asked Chang Er to keep the pill after went back home.

A few days later, Hou Yi together with his believers to go out hunting, Peng Meng who was cunning pretend illness, and stayed at home.

　  soon after Houyi gone, Peng Meng holding a sword into the inner chamber, coercion Chang Er to hand over the pill.

　  Chang Er knew that she was unable to resist Peng Meng, so she swallowed the pill as soon as she took out it. Then the body immediately flew to the sky. As Chang Er worried about her husband, then fly to the moon from the earth into the nearest cent.

　  when Hou Yi returned home, maid cried the day they happened. The broken Hou Yi looking up at the night sky, calling his beloved wife's name. Then he was surprised to find the moon of that night is particularly bright and clear, and there is a shaking of the figure resembles the Chang Er.

　　Hou Yi quickly went to the garden, put a table some fruit and biscuit which are Chang Er favorite, worship his loved wife far away.

　　People also did as Hou Yi after heard about the news, to pray for good luck. It is said that day was exactly the mid-autumn day, so the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival worship spread.

Hou Yi shoots down the suns

The story begins around 2170 B.C. after the great flood in the Hsia dynasty. Yu, king of many kingdoms, was credited with stopping the flood, and with teaching farmers how to cultivate their fields, thus commencing a prosperous epoch.

At the same time in Heaven the Jade Emperor wished to help the farmers raise animals and cultivate their fields. He gave orders to his ten sons to become ten suns and travel across the sky one at a time, each taking one day. The ten young men disobeyed; all ten of them came out every day, and the heat from ten suns shining all at once made the earth intolerably hot. People and animals died of heat, rivers dried up, land became barren and forests scorched and burned.

The farmers prayed, giving sacrifices and burning incense to Heaven for deliverance. The Jade Emperor heard their prayers and saw the destruction caused by his sons. He sent Hou Yi, his bravest god, down to earth to solve the problem of the ten suns and end the catastrophe.
Hou Yi was a great archer and brought his magic bow from heaven with him. Knowing that Hou Yi came from heaven, the people of the clans proclaimed him to be their leader.

Seeing how much suffering and destruction were caused by the heat of the ten suns, Hou Yi climbed to the top of Tienshan mountain and began negotiating with the suns to have pity on the unfortunate people. He pleaded to the suns to take turns and make their journeys across the sky singly, one for each day, and explained the white blaze of ten suns is much too much for the land to bear. He also told them how much Heaven loves all living things.

But the ten audacious suns considered it dull and boring to go across the sky one at a time and that much more fun was to be had by coming out together, so they refused to listen. They increased their heat and caused even more suffering. This angered Hou Yi. He took out his magic bow and arrows and shot down nine of the suns; the last sun begged for his life and promised obedience at performing his task of separating night from day.

Finally the earth was at peace and people enjoyed their work and lives. However, when Hou Yi made his report to the Jade Emperor, he was furious at Hou Yi for killing his nine sons, and refused to let the Divine Couple return to Heaven.