1000709 The Sun’s Legend

The Sun’s Legend

By Max

     About 460 million years ago, our solar system was born. In the solar system, there are a few planets inside; one of them is the Sun. The Sun is very bright and hot, but it gave our planet brightness and warm climates until now.

     There are also some Chinese legends about the Sun. According to one famous legend, there are ten suns on the sky in ancient China, so the weather became very hot, and the crops died, so the people have nothing to eat. One famous archer called Hou Yi wanted to save the world from starving to death, so he used his bow and arrows and shot down nine of the ten suns. Because there is only a sun on the sky, so people can live happily again.

     After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, the Jade Emperor was very angry because of the ten suns were his sons and Hou Yi shot down nine of them, so he banished Hou Yi and his wife. The Goddess saw this, so she gave him an elixir of immortality. But his wife is very greedy; she drank the potion and started flying to the moon. So that’s why there is also a legend about Chang O flying to the Moon.

     The sun is very important to us, and if one day the sun doesn’t exist anymore, then we won’t survive anymore.