Houyi shoots the sun (English version) Mythological Story

Long long ago (In the ancient me), there were ten suns in the sky. In scorching heat, some people have died of sunstroke and dehydraon? and all of plants can not survive. As a

result, the world was being destroyed by heat. At this me, a handsome young man whose name is Houyi appeared. He wants to save the world.

One day, he came to a broad field with his arrows. Then he placed an arrow against the bow-string and drew it to the full, then let his arrow go one of the suns was killed and fell down. Then he placed an arrow against the bow-string and drew it to the full, then let his arrow go one of the suns was killed and fell down. But sll the earth was buring. So Houyi drew the bow and let the arrow go again.

When the ninth fell from the sky.

When the ninth fell from the sky, Houyi was told that the world needed one sun to give its warmth and light. Finally, houyi gained two magical pill that can make someone who take it become immortal.

And Houyi wanted to give one to his girlfriend chang'e. Unfortunately, one evening, Houyi didn't at home, a thief broke into his house and order chang'e surrender the pill. Unfortunately, one evening, Houyi didn't at home, a thief broke into his house and order chang'e surrender the pill. chang'e felt very helpless and didn't know how to do. so she swallowed the two pills. in the end, chang'e flew to the moon.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there were ten suns in the sky, the sons of the Emperor of the East, and the ten suns changed every day, bringing light to the earth. But after a long time, the ten suns felt very bored, so they appeared together above the sky, which was too much for people to bear.

Fortunately, a young descendant of the heroes appeared, he was a divine archer, with great strength and excellent archery skills, he couldn't bear to see the people living in misery, so he wanted to shoot down the extra nine suns, to help the people out of the predicament. So he traveled all the way over the mountains, through many trials and tribulations, and finally came to the East China Sea and climbed a big mountain.

The descendant stood at the top of the mountain and drew his bow, aiming at the sun in the sky. With a few "whoosh-whoosh-whoosh" sounds, he shot down nine suns in succession, leaving only the last one, which was still hanging in the sky. The last sun was still hanging in the sky, and it was so scared that it honestly listened to the descendant's command and continued to contribute light to the earth and people. After that the descendant was also regarded as a sun-shooting hero by countless people, and was revered and loved.

Extended information:

Hou Yi shot the sun. p>Hou Yi shoots the sun, is an ancient Chinese myth and legend. In ancient times, there was a severe drought in the land. The heat scorched the forests, dried up the earth, and sun-dried the seedlings and grasses. As it turned out, Di Jun and Xi He had 10 children all of whom were suns, and they lived overseas in the east, where there was a large tree in the sea water called Fusang.

The 10 suns sleep at the bottom of the branches, and take turns running out in the sky on duty, shining on the earth. But sometimes they came out together and brought disaster to mankind. In order to save mankind, Hou Yi opened his bow and arrow and shot at the 9 suns. The sky exploded with fireballs and a three-legged crow fell down. In the end, there was only one sun left in the sky.

Scientific explanation:

NASA Chinese scientist Prof. Feng Zhao believes that the Houyi Sun Shooting Event is actually a comet impact event, similar to the 1994 levy-9 comet impact Jupiter event of a smaller version. Because of the comet loose texture, when the comet is captured by the planets, under the action of tidal forces will disintegrate into a string of celestial bodies, the so-called nine days, it is the comet disintegrated into nine pieces.

9 pieces of celestial bodies into the Earth's atmosphere, due to friction burns like the "sun" of the luminous heat body, which is the Classic of the Mountain and the Sea in the "nine days of the lower branch, a day in the upper branch". Then these seemingly "sun" of the object will soon hit the Earth one by one, because the comet texture loose, after the impact of the planets and will not leave obvious craters, so the fall of the place of a scorched black mud, this is the Classic of the Mountains and Seas "Yi shot nine days, fell into Wo Jiao" of the This is the reason why the

Comets impacting planets in the long history of the solar system is often occurring, Houyi shoot the sun is likely to be the ancient ancestors witnessed a comet impact on the Earth's spectacle, terrified and powerless they had to shoot arrows at it, thus leaving the legendary myths passed down for thousands of years - Houyi shoot the sun.

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