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.