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后羿射日简短的英语作文 Hou Yi Shooting the Sun Hou Yi was a famous archer in ancient Chinese mythology. According to legend, there were ten suns in the sky, which made the earth very hot and dry. Hou Yi shot down nine suns with his bow and arrow, leaving only one in the sky. As a reward for saving the earth, the Queen Mother of the West gave Hou Yi a pill of immortality. However, Hou Yi did not take the pill right away. He wanted to wait for his wife Change to become immortal too, so they could be together forever. One day, Hou Yi went out and left the pill at home. His apprentice, Peng Meng, saw the pill and tried to steal it. Change, who did not want to leave her husband, swallowed the pill herself and became immortal. She floated up to the moon and never came back. After losing his wife, Hou Yi became very sad and made offerings to the moon every year on the Mid-Autumn Festival. People also started to worship Change as the goddess of the moon. And that is the story of Hou Yi shooting the sun and Change becoming the goddess of the moon.