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Hou I and the ten suns

(Favourite story from Chinese)

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One day, China was invaded by all kinds of strange animals. There were dragons with nine heads, wild dogs with teeth as sharp as knives, and many other fierce animals. Hou I was sent to fight them. Before long, he killed them all with his bow and arrow. The emperor was very pleased with him.

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Not long afterwards, the sun broke into ten small pieces the earth soon became as hot as fire, many people died of hunger and thirst.

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Although Emperor Yao was a very wise man. He did not know how to do. He asked his officers for advice. Some of them told him to use curtains to shade the earth from the heat of the suns. Others told him to flood the earth with water. The Emperor did not like any of these ideas. He became more and more worried. At last, he sent for Hou I.

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“Can you think of way to save our country?” he asked him. Hou I replied, “Your Majesty, I am only good at shooting arrows. Let me shoot down the ten suns for you.”

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The Emperor agreed to let him try.

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Hou I shot down one of the suns. It fell to the ground with a loud noise. When he picked it up, he found that it had changed into a large black bird. He shot down another sun. it also change into a large black bird when it hit the ground. He shoot down altogether nine suns in this way. He was about to shoot down the last sun when the Emperor stopped him.

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“if you shoot down the last sun,” he said, “there will be no light and warmth on earth.”

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Hou I listened to what the emperor said. He put away his bow and arrow. That is why there is still a sun in the sky which rises every morning in the east and sets every evening in the west, it gives light and warmth to the earth, without which we could not live.

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