Legend has it that Emperor Jun was friends with colorful birds, and the story of "Dayi shooting the sun" is closely connected with the East China Sea, Fusang, and Three-legged Crow. It completely comes from Dongyi mythology where "bird totem" is the worship object.

At this point in the story, there is a connection point between the Dongyi mythology and the Kunlun mythology in western China, and that is the Queen Mother's "Elixir of Death".

The "elixir of immortality" was also one of the things that Wang Peng secretly coveted during this trip.

It turns out that those myths and legends that he once despised and thought existed only in elementary school textbooks actually contain something as precious as gold. How could he not work hard and dig deeper?

Continuing from the previous chapter, after Dayi was demoted to the mortal world, Emperor Jun's daughter Chang'e was also implicated and had to live in the mortal world with her husband.

How can anyone bear the huge difference between a god and a mortal?

What's more, we have to face death like mortals. Although we have not completely lost our divine bodies and the days are still long, Chang'e is still worried and sighing day and night.

Dayi had to find a way to relieve this hidden worry in order to restore a happy family life, so he planned to go to the Kunlun Mountains to find the Queen Mother of the West.

There is an immortal tree on Kunlun Mountain. There is a kind of longevity fruit on the tree. If you eat it, you can live forever. It is equivalent to the "flat peach" in the legend of later generations.

But the immortal tree blooms every 3,000 years and bears fruit every 3,000 years, which is very rare.

Whenever the Queen Mother harvests fruits and distributes them to the gods, she will refine the remaining fruits into "elixir" to prepare for emergencies.

Even if they know that there is such a thing as "elixir" in the world, not everyone can go to Kunlun Mountain because there is an abyss called "Weak Water" surrounding the mountain.

The reason why it is called "weak water" is because it has almost no buoyancy. Even if a feather falls into weak water, it will sink, let alone swimming and carrying a boat.

In addition to the weak water, there is also a mountain of fire surrounding it. The fire on the mountain burns blazingly and does not go out day and night. Whatever comes close to the flame will immediately burn.

Even after passing through the barrier of the Flame Mountain and the weak water, Kunlun Mountain's ladder is thousands of meters high and cannot be climbed by mortals.

But none of these could stop Yi, who was once a god of heaven, and he finally found the Queen Mother of the West through hardships and obstacles.

(Seeing this, Wang Peng thought to himself, it’s a good thing I have a direct spaceship to Kunlun, otherwise only the Yellow Emperor and Dayi could do such a difficult thing.)

The Queen Mother and Di Jun were old friends, and she received Dayi warmly.

However, the Queen Mother regretfully told her: "There is an elixir of death, but it's a pity that there is only one left. And it will take thousands of years for the elixir of life to bear fruit again."

However, although there is only one pill, as long as Dayi and his wife take half of it, both of them can live forever until the next time the immortal tree bears fruit.

If this elixir of immortality is taken by one person, that person can directly ascend to become a god.

Dayi happily replied: "It doesn't matter. As long as my husband and I eat half of it, we can live happily in the world for a long time. Even if we can't ascend, it doesn't matter!"

After returning home, Yi gave his wife the elixir for safekeeping and planned to choose a good and auspicious day to take it together.

But Chang'e's thoughts were different from her husband's. She just wanted to fly back to the sky and become a goddess as soon as possible, and she didn't want to stay on earth and suffer for a long time.

Anyway, it was Yi who caused her to be demoted to the human world, so she has to return this favor to me!

So Chang'e swallowed the whole elixir while her husband was not at home.

The effect of the elixir was indeed miraculous. It removed all the turbid human qi absorbed from Chang'e's body, leaving her body completely renewed.

Chang'e felt her body getting lighter and lighter, floating up into the sky. But after all, she felt guilty and did not dare to go back to her father Di Jun directly, so she flew towards the moon.

Don't forget that Emperor Jun and Chang Xi gave birth to Twelve Moons and Chang'e, so the Moon is her sister.

When Dayi came back from outside, he found that his wife had betrayed him and he felt very sad.

Later, Emperor Jun found out about Chang'e's betrayal of Dayi. He was very angry and locked his daughter in the moon.

Chang'e was lonely on the moon. Then she recalled the happy time with her husband and couldn't help but feel very regretful.

The tragedies of Dayi and Chang'e are saddening, but they have finally been passed down among the people and have not been forgotten by people after such a long time.

It should be noted that there were two Yis in history, both of whom were good at archery and could easily be confused. We call the hero who shot the sun "Da Yi", while the "Yi" of the Xia Dynasty was called "Hou Yi" ("Hou Yi").

"Hou" is the honorific title of the Xia Dynasty monarch).

Hou Yi was the leader of the Youqiong clan of Dongyi in the Xia Dynasty. Later he conspired to seize the power of the Xia Kingdom and became the king himself.

Hou Yi's princess was called Chunhu. Later, she hooked up with a minister named Hanzhuo, and Hou Yi discovered her.

Hou Yi was furious and wanted to kill Han Zhuo, but Han Zhuo killed him instead and took the throne from him.

Therefore, the saying "Hou Yi shot the sun" is inaccurate.

According to the records in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", Emperor Jun had many wives and descendants, forming a huge oriental pantheon.

Each descendant of Emperor Jun is a tribe or kingdom. The "Book of Mountains and Seas" describes the kingdom of Xihe, the kingdom of Shaohao, the kingdom of Zhongrong, the kingdom of black teeth, the kingdom of Dan'er, and the kingdom of Niu Li.

The country, the country of the white people, etc., they are all over the mountains of Buting, the black water, the wilderness, the abyss of Shaohe and the abyss of Cong.

Not only that, these descendants of the emperor also created an independent civilization system.

"Hai Nei Jing" says: "Emperor Jun gave birth to the name Yu...Panyu was the beginning of the boat,...Ji Guang was the beginning of the wood as the cart."

Also: "Emperor Jun gave birth to Yan Long, and Yan Long was a harp and harp", "Emperor Jun had eight sons, and he began to sing and dance", "Houji sowed hundreds of grains, and Ji's grandson was called Shujun, and he began to work with cattle."

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Boats, carts, singing and dancing, harps, instruments and planting, these are the beginnings of civilization. They are completely independent from the Central Plains civilization in which Shennong tasted herbs and Huangdi invented Xuanyuan (car). They are another complete oriental civilization system.

Moreover, they were the first to invent metal smelting technology (Chiyou's "initial creation of the Five Soldiers" was actually attributed to the Dongyi people). Taihao Fuxi, the ancestor of Dongyi, also invented the Bagua. If they had not been defeated by the Yellow Emperor, their advanced level would actually be

surpassing the civilization of the Central Plains.

After the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, Dongyi civilization merged with the Central Plains civilization and the Yangtze River civilization to form the main body of Chinese civilization. This was the fusion of dragon culture and phoenix culture (Dongyi).

The coverage of Dongyi myths also extends far beyond the borders of China, extending eastward to distant overseas lands.

The Goguryeo people worshiped the three-legged crow as a symbol of the highest power; Penglai is located "east of the Bohai Sea, hundreds of millions of miles away".

And Fusang "is on the east coast of the East China Sea. After traveling for ten thousand miles, there is a blue sea in the east, which is as wide and narrow as the East China Sea. Fusang is in the blue sea... two trees grow occasionally with the same roots, and they are more dependent on each other. Therefore,

It’s called Fusang.”

When Wang Peng saw this, he thought: According to this statement, the east coast of the East China Sea is North America.

Then "Ten Thousand Miles ashore" passed through the entire North America, and "there is a blue sea in the east, wide and narrow, vast, and equal to the East China Sea." Is that the "Atlantic" that is as big as the "Pacific"?
Chapter completed!