Hou Yi saved the people by shooting the sun, and everyone was grateful and admired him. Many people studied with him, and one of them, named Xiao Meng, also worshipped under his disciple.
Hou Yi's wife's name is Chang'e, and she is a beautiful and kind-hearted woman. Chang'e couldn't see her neighbors suffering, so she often helped the poor villagers live, and like Hou Yi, she was also widely loved.
In order to commend Hou Yi for his feat of shooting the sun to save the people from fire and water, the Queen Mother of the West of the Heavenly Palace gave Hou Yi a pill of immortal medicine. This elixir is amazing, not only can you live forever if you eat it, but you can also become an immortal!But Hou Yi was unwilling to leave Chang'e, so he asked Chang'e to hide the elixir.
The matter of the elixir is a well-known secret, and Hou Yi's apprentice Xiao Meng naturally knows it. Feng Meng followed Hou Yi to learn art, but he felt that it was too hard to practice Xi every day, so he wanted to get Hou Yi's elixir in his hands, and then live forever!
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Houyi ** went out hunting, and only the long-planned Xiaomeng pretended to be sick and stayed. In the evening, Xiao Meng took advantage of Hou Yi's not yet returned, so he carried a sharp knife in his hand and coerced Chang'e to take out the elixir. While dealing with Xiaomeng, Chang'e thought to herself, if she let Fengmeng, who was not right-hearted, eat the elixir of immortality, wouldn't he want to harm more people in the future?So she made up her mind that she wouldn't give the elixir to Feng Meng before her descendants came back!
Chang'e refused to hand over the elixir, so Fengmeng had to search for it by herself. Just when Fengmeng was about to find the elixir, Chang'e took the elixir with an arrow and swallowed it in one gulp!
Chang'e, who had eaten the elixir, her body floated as light as an out-of-body soul, and then she flew up slowly and leisurely. Chang'e couldn't control herself, so she let her body fly out of the windowsill, and the higher she flew, she flew over the shadowy woods, over the sparkling lakes, over the soft moonlit clouds, and towards the full moon on the horizon.
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Hou Yi shouted while desperately chasing after the moon!But when he chased three steps forward, the moon took three steps back, never to catch up. A loving couple is on each other side of the day, only the full moon night stares at each other in the air!
The villagers also miss the kind Chang'e, every year on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, they put Chang'e's favorite melons and fruits in the yard, with some round sweet cakes, to wish Chang'e in the Moon Palace.
This is also the origin of the meaning of family reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival!