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Weather By The Moon
matter to the god Hou Yi . The Emperor asked Hou Yi to
persuade his sons to rise up away from the earth to end the
catastrophe. When Hou asked the suns to leave the sky,
they refused. Made angry by their defiance, Hou Yi, a great
archer, launched arrows at the suns, shooting them down
one until his wife Chang O pleaded with him to save on sun
to keep the earth warm and bright. Knowing that the Jade
Emperor was furious at the slaying of his sons, Hou Yi and
Chang O were forced to stay on earth. Chang O was unhappy,
so her husband tried to win back her favor by gathering
herbs that would give them once again the power to
ascend to heaven. Chang O remained angry, however, and
ate all the herbs herself. She flew up to the moon, where
she remains alone, living in the Moon Palace.
In a story of patience, Wu Kang, a restless goodfor-nothing
decides to become an immortal but can’t stick
to lessons from his immortal tutor. Asking to go to a new
place, the immortal takes him to the Moon. Once there,
the tutor instructs Wu to chop down a cassia tree. The cassia
tree, if not completely chopped down in one day, reappears
whole the next day. As Wu Kang lacked, and still lacks
the patience to finish the job, he is up there chopping still..
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