It is said that when the ancients saw sunspots, they thought they were black birds-crows, and because they were different in nature from crows, they added a foot to show the difference, and because they were related to the sun, they were golden, so they were called the three-legged golden sun.
According to Shan Hai Jing and other ancient books, the tenth day in China ancient sun myths and legends is He, the son of Di Junhe. They are both human and divine, the embodiment of the sun, the three-legged bird of the sun, and the flying god. For example, in Shan Hai Jing Huang Da Nan Jing, there is "xi He, the wife of the emperor, was born for ten days"; "Shan Hai Jing Overseas East longitude" says that "there are hibiscus on the Tang Valley, bathing on the 10th, north of Blackpool. Living in the water, there are big trees, No.9 lives in the lower branch, and 1 lives in the upper branch "; The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Huang Da's East longitude, also said that "there are trees on the Tang Valley, and they are all in Urumqi every day", which is the account of decameron's myths and legends.
In the Spirit of Huainanzi, it is said that there are three feet of Wu in Japan and China, and in Guo Pu's annotation, there are three feet of Wu in China, which is the explanation and explanation of the sun as the embodiment of the sun. On the tenth day of ancient myths and legends, it rises from the oriental hibiscus tree in turn every morning, turns into the sun or the sun bird flying from east to west in the universe, and falls on the western Ruomu tree at night, expressing the ancient observation and feeling of sunrise and sunset.
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