| The legend says, thousands of years ago in Yao dynasty,
there were ten Suns shining in the sky at the same time.
The burning heat singed the crops and trees. The people
were suffering a lot because of starvation and many people
died of hunger. In the meantime, a lot of monsters and
atrocious birds began to riot introducing illness and
threat to human beings. Yayu was a very atrocious monster,
that ran very fast. One of the beasts was called Chisel
Teeth. Its buckteeth looked like chisels sticking out
of its jaw about three feet in length. Nine Babies was
one of the monsters with nine heads. It could send jets
of water or fire from its mouth. And the Gale was a ferocious
bird with large wings. When it flew over, houses were
terribly damaged because of the great shock wave from
its wings. Fengshi was the monster of pigs. The Cultivated
Snake was of course a snake but it could gulp an elephant
at a time and it took it three years to let out the bones.
So these ferocious monsters troubled people badly.
In order to help the people get out from under, Emperor
Yao ordered Yi to conquer the monsters and those suns.
So Yi set out with his bow, arrows, sword and spear.
The hero won each fight. He killed the Chisel Teeth
in the field in the south of China, the Nine Babies
in the ominous water in the north of China, and he killed
the Gale bird in the east of China with an arrow fastened
with string. The huge snake was cut into pieces at the
Dongting lake, and the monster of pigs was also caught
in the forest of mulberry in the center of China. In
time he shot down nine of the ten suns. One of them
was left serving for people ever since.
The whole country praised Yi for his heroic deeds and
admired him very much.
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