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Key words£ºsun£¬Chinese£¬Yi
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Genre£ºmyth |
Topic£ºsun |
Words:210 |
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However, Yi shot
nine suns, only the Sun
that we see today remained in the sky. |
The ten Chinese suns
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Author£ºUnknown |
Source£ºrevengeofthesun.com
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Nation£ºChina
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Date£º2008-8-9 |
(A sketch based on an early stone-rubbing
showing one of the ten Chinese suns crossing the heavens)
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Chinese people believed that
there existed ten suns that appeared in turn in the sky during
the Chinese ten-day week. Each day the ten suns would travel
with their mother, the goddess Xi He, to the Valley of the Light
in the East. There, Xi He would wash her children in the lake
and put them in the branches of an enormous mulberry tree called
fu-sang. From the tree, only one sun would move off into the sky
for a journey of one day, to reach the mount Yen-Tzu in the Far
West.
Tired of this routine, the ten
suns decided to appear all together. The combined heat made the
life on the Earth unbearable. To prevent the destruction of the
Earth, the emperor Yao asked Di Jun, the father of the ten suns,
to persuade his children to appear one at a time.
They would not listen to him, so
Di Jun sent the archer, Yi, armed with a magic bow and ten
arrows to frighten the disobedient suns. However, Yi shot nine
suns, only the Sun that we see today remained in the sky. Di Jun
was so angry for the death of nine of his children that he
condemned Yi to live as an ordinary mortal in the earth.
Discussion£º
1. Why did the ten suns
decide to appear all together?
2. What did Di Jun ordered
Yi to do?
3. Why was Di Jun so angry
with Yi?
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