Once upon a time, when all the gods were still alive.
At that time, there was a place in the East China Sea called Yanggu, and there was a sacred tree called Fuso in Yanggu, and there were ten suns living on the Fuso tree.
The father of these ten suns is the Emperor of Heaven, and the mother is the goddess Xihe.
In the center of the sun there is a sacred bird called Jinwu. Jin Wu has three legs and looks like a crow. The three-legged Golden Wu condenses the brilliance between heaven and earth, possesses immortal life, and they are the souls of the sun.
Every morning, the sun bathes in the East China Sea, and the sea boils and produces huge waves.
After bathing, the nine suns will rest in the trees, and the sun on duty will sit on a two-wheeled cart pulled by six dragons, rise from the top of the fuso tree, and sprinkle light and warmth on the earth.
At first, the ten suns took turns on duty according to the arrangement of the goddess Xihe, in the order from the eldest son to the youngest son.
Six dragons pull the sun cart and also strictly adhere to the fixed itinerary, daily, rising in the east and setting in the west.
At that time, the time when the sun first went up to the Fuso tree was called Morning Light; the sun went to the top of the tree, called Humble Ming; walked to Qu'a, called Dan Ming; when it reached Zengquan, it was called early food... Xi He had been sending her son to the Fountain of Sorrows, watching the sun go to Yuyuan and enter the Valley of Ignorance, before she drove the empty car, through the stars and floating clouds in the night wind, and returned to Yutani.
It was the ancient Golden Age, when the sun shone on the earth and everything flourished. People work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and live and work in peace. But the good times did not last long, and one day the ten suns quarreled.
"It takes ten days to go to heaven once, and I've waited too long. I want to get on a two-wheeler every day. The great sun said. The big sun feels like sitting on a two-wheeler... Well, it feels imposing.
"That's right! It did take too long! And the mother's ordering is too unfair, my brilliance is brighter than yours, why should I rank behind you? The second sun was indignant, "I think I should be the first to play." ”
"I'm the biggest in terms of size!" The Three Suns were also very unconvinced, "I am the best sun, I should be the first!" ”
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The ten suns quarreled endlessly, and finally one day, they did not listen to the advice of the goddess XiHe, no longer obeyed their father's arrangement, and the ten suns squeezed into the sun car together.
When the six dragons saw ten suns coming up from the car, they were so excited that they squirted water and groaned, and the dragon heads were high, and pulled the cart to set off.
A two-wheeled vehicle carrying ten suns jumped from the top of the Fuso tree into the air. As soon as they reached the sky, the ten suns left the two-wheeled vehicle and jumped into the air, occupying a position of their own.
In this way, ten suns appeared in the sky at the same time.
The brilliance of the ten suns simultaneously illuminated the earth, rivers, rivers, lakes, and seas gradually became hotter and finally boiled up.
Soon, the ponds and lakes, the rivers and the currents, all dried up. The land cracks, the grass and trees wither, the fruit yellow, and the rice harvest is lost.
Then the forest became a sea of fire, the beasts lost their nests, and the houses of men collapsed in the fire. The evil dragons in the deep sea, the beasts in the deep mountains, have come out to eat people. Countless people were killed by the fire, and those who survived were chased by evil beasts and wandered around like wild dogs.
At that time, there was a great god named HouYi, he was a sharp archer, he was not only infinitely powerful, but his archery skills were unparalleled in the world. He saw the suffering of the world and was determined to shoot down the sun and eliminate harm for the people.
Hou Yi came to Kunlun Mountain, made a divine bow from the only trunk of the Heavenly Ladder Divine Tree, made a divine arrow from the nine long branches of the Divine Tree, and put the sharp Divine Arrow into a poisonous potion to soak.
Then he pulled out the bow of god, and the arrow was aimed at the sun in the sky.
"Whoosh", the great god houyi shot out the divine arrow, and a sun fell in response.
The sun that was shot burst open, and a brilliant fire was emitted from the heart, and the fire was extinguished, and the dead sun turned into a three-legged golden crow, flew towards the west, disappeared into the vast sky, and disappeared without a trace.
At this time, the sun was shot down by one, and there were nine left.
After the two arrows were fired in succession, only to hear "whoosh" and "whirl" twice, two sun arrows, bursting and scattering, and two three-legged crows flew out of the fire, and like the previous golden crows, flew to the sunset in the west.
At this time, the sun was shot down three times, and there were seven left.
Immediately afterward, the Great God Hou Yi Lianzhu shot out the remaining six divine arrows, the six sun arrows died, the sound of the sun exploding shook the heavens and the earth, six three-legged golden wu belts fell with fire, and mao feathers fell to the ground. But as soon as they touched the earth, they flew up again. They flew west, sank to sunset, and disappeared into the darkness.
Heaven and earth became incomparably dark and incomparably cold, people stretched out their hands and could not see their fingers, man and god trembled in the cold, and fierce beasts cried out in despair.
Nine suns were shot down, and one remained. But where did the remaining one go?
At the darkest and coldest moment, a blue bird flew from outside the clouds, telling people that the sun had returned to Yutani in the east, and that it was hiding under the East Sea out of fear.
The great god Houyi let the rooster stand on the top of the mountain, facing the East Sea, towards the place where the Fuso tree was located, and shouted loudly.
"Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-
The sun did not come out, and the rooster cried again.
The rooster barked three times in total.
When the rooster finished calling for the third time, people saw that the sun was rising from the East China Sea.