What is the story of He Bathing Festival in ancient mythology?

Xi, what bath day? Xi He Yu Day tells the story of Xi He and his children. Xi He is the mother of ancient suns, and her children are ten suns. Xi He is also known as the sun god. In The Classic of Mountains and Seas, which records all kinds of fairy tales, the specific story of how to bathe is recorded.

Portrait of bath day

Legend has it that the goddess of the sun and her brother Di Jun gave birth to ten children, and these ten children are ten suns. They live in Tanggu on the other side of the East China Sea. There, there is a tree called Fusang. That place is also called Fusang. It is said that this tree is very magnificent, reaching thousands of feet. Ten suns have lived in trees since childhood. The ten suns also have their duty, that is, one sun goes to the sky to illuminate the earth on duty every day.

As a mother, He will take her children to Xianchi and take a bath before leaving every day. After xi washed his children, he told them to wait for a dragon car pulled by six dragons to set off for the sky. Because there is a 16 stop from Tanggu to Mongolia, it only takes one day. The sun got off at 14 station and walked, while xi Zeyan drove back to Tanggu to meet the sun tomorrow.

This is the story of his bathing day. Because xi is the mother of the sun, she often bathes the sun. This legend was gradually summed up by xi's words as the day when he took a bath.

And his ten children are also the sun shot by Hou Yi. Because these ten children find it boring to run to the sky day after day and shine on the earth alone. Since human beings need the sun to harvest crops, they should go to the sky to shine together, so as to harvest more food. Finally, they did something bad with good intentions and dried up the earth. Finally, Hou Yi shot and killed nine people.

Portrait of the sun god He.

Xi He first appeared in Shan Hai Jing, which recorded many ancient legends of China, and Xi He was one of them. From the beginning of this book, He appeared in front of people as the mother of the sun, that is to say, He is the creator of human light and the more revered sun god. That's why people call her He.

After Shan Hai Jing, Qu Yuan's Lisao and Astronomy explained the related contents of xi He. In the Book of the Former Han Dynasty, Wang Yi also thinks that xi is the god who guards the sun and is also in charge of the four seasons. With Wang Yi's comments, xi gradually evolved into an official position in the Han Dynasty and went deep into literature and politics. That is to say, with scholars' different interpretations of He, He gradually changed from the mother of the sun to a person who resisted the sun, and later became an official because of his role as a person who managed the four seasons.

However, most people's impression of He is still in the state of ancient gods, because He, as the mother of the sun, has a great influence on mankind. In many mythical TV dramas, xi He often appears.