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3. A traditional story :Chang’e and Houyi
Chang'e is the Chinese goddess of the moon. The lunar exploration-orbiting
spacecraft Chang'e 1 is named after her.
According to legend, Chang'e and her husband Houyi were immortals living in
heaven. One day, the ten sons of the Jade Emperor transformed into ten suns,
causing the earth to scorch. Having failed to order his sons to stop ruining the
earth, the Jade Emperor summoned Houyi for help. Houyi, using his legendary
archery skills, shot down nine of the sons, but spared one son to be the sun.
The Jade Emperor was obviously not pleased with Houyi's solution to save the
earth: nine of his sons were dead. As punishment, the Jade Emperor banished
Houyi and Chang'e to live as mere mortals on earth.
Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality,
Houyi decided to journey on a long, perilous quest to find the pill of
immortality so that the couple could be immortals again. At the end of his quest
he met the Queen Mother of the West who agreed to give him the pill, but warned
him that each person would only need half the pill tobecome immortal.
Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not
to open the case and then left home for a while. Chang'e became too curious: she
opened up the case and found the pill just as Houyi was returning home. She
either accidentally or purposely swallowed the pill. She started to float into
the sky because of the overdose. Chang'e kept on floating until she landed on
the moon.
While she became lonely on the moon without her husband, she did have
company,a jade rabbit.
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