The story of dogs eating the moon

The archer Hou Yi saved the people and shot down nine suns. People all over the world thanked him for his kindness. In order to reward him, the queen mother took out two kinds of herbs with unusual fragrance and told Hou Yi that when she returned, she could become immortal by boiling them and swallowing them.

Hou Yi loved his wife very much, so he decided to share this happiness with his wife Chang 'e and become immortal together. But the greedy Chang 'e smelled the smell of the fairy medicine and couldn't help eating it up.

When it was dark, Chang 'e saw that her husband had not come back, so she went out to have a look. Unexpectedly, as soon as she went out, her body fluttered with the wind. When Black Ear, the hound, saw Chang 'e steal the elixir and ascend to heaven alone, she barked and jumped into the house. When she smelled the fragrance, she grabbed the pot with one paw, licked up the remaining ginseng soup and ran after Chang 'e in the sky. When Chang 'e heard the cry of black ears, she was surprised and scared, and hurriedly hid in the moon.

At that time, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother were enjoying the moon in the Heavenly Palace. When they suddenly saw that it was dark, they quickly sent a night watchman to check it out. The night watchman came back and reported that the moon was swallowed by a black dog, so it was dark. Hearing this, the Jade Emperor angrily ordered the heavenly soldiers to catch the black dog. When the black dog was caught, the Queen Mother recognized it as Houyi's hound, Black Ear, so she asked about the reason and felt sorry for it. She named it Tiangou and let it guard the worse gate. Heier was sealed by grace, so he spit out the moon and Chang 'e, and Chang 'e was punished to live in the moon palace forever.

lunar eclipse

Eclipse is a special astronomical phenomenon, which means that when the moon moves to the shadow of the earth, the area between the moon and the earth will be blocked by the earth because of the sunlight, and the moon will be missing. At this time, the sun, the earth and the moon are exactly (or almost) on the same straight line. Eclipses can be divided into three types: partial eclipse, total eclipse and penumbral eclipse. A solar eclipse can only occur around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

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Baidu encyclopedia-eclipse