Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people. He married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. Besides hunting, Hou Yi spends all his time with his wife, and people envy this beautiful and loving couple. Many people with lofty ideals came here to study as teachers, and Meng Peng with ulterior motives joined in.
One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek truth. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang 'e. Chang 'e hid the medicine in the dresser's treasure chest, but the villain Meng Peng saw it. He wants to steal the elixir to make himself immortal.
Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Meng Peng with ulterior motives pretended to be ill. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Meng Peng broke into the backyard of the back room with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In times of crisis, she made a decisive decision, turned around and opened the treasure chest, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp.
Chang 'e swallowed the medicine and immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window and flew into the sky. Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, she flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy.
In the evening, when Hou Yi came home, the maids cried and told what happened during the day. Hou Yi was surprised and angry, and drew his sword to kill the villain. Meng Peng escaped early. Angry and heartbroken, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and shouted the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is particularly bright and bright, and there is a swaying figure resembling Chang 'e.
He chased the moon desperately, but he chased three steps, the moon retreated three steps, he retreated three steps and the moon advanced three steps, but he couldn't catch up anyway. Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send someone to Chang 'e's favorite back garden, put on a table sweetmeats, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a sacrifice to Chang 'e who was attached to him at the Moon Palace.
After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people made an incense table under the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the kind Chang 'e.
Extended data
Chang 'e is the moon fairy in China mythology. In The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the daughter of the emperor of the Middle Ages and the wife of Dayu were extraordinary in beauty, originally called (Heng E), but in the Western Han Dynasty, to avoid the taboo of the emperor China, they were renamed as E, also called Chang 'e, and some people called them Chang 'e.
In mythology, Dayi lived in the Guanghan Palace above the moon because she took the elixir of the Queen Mother of the West. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no data to show that Chang 'e and Yi were husband and wife, and Guizang explained that they might be husband and wife by comparing divinatory symbols.
It was not until Gaoyou annotated Huai Nan Zi that Chang 'e was Hou Yi's wife. In some folklore, Chang 'e and Xing Jun, the goddess of the Moon in Taoist mythology, are combined into one, and are honored as the female images of Huang Huasu of the Moon Palace, Yao Yuan's net victory over Hou Taiyin Yuan Jun, or Huang Junxiao and Wang Ming of the Moon Palace.
Another view is that:
There is a saying in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals that don't bow your head. Dai Biyuan commented: "Shang Yang is Chang Yi, and the ancient reading of' Yi' is' He', and later generations have Chang 'e's speaking out of turn. "
In other words, the prototype of Chang 'e is Chang 'e recorded in Shan Hai Jing Huang Da Xi Jing. However, this view obviously fails to take into account that the original name of Chang 'e recorded in ancient books in the early Warring States period was "Heng 'e", and it was not until the Han Dynasty that it was changed to Chang 'e because of taboo.