#chinese mythology chang'e

[jasminebythebay]

the lady of the moon 🐇🌙

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[tippenfunkaport]

The story of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, has been stalking me lately and every time it finds me again I think to myself: Glimbow AU? Because, you know, immortal moon goddess, plus her love, Hou Yi, was a legendary mortal archer so it's tempting.

But then I remember that every version of the myth involves the mortal she loves dying and them being parted forever as she ends up trapped alone on the moon, missing him for all eternity, and I decide, no, we're not doing that.

Anyway, here is an older Glimmer feeling contemplative on the moon for no particular reason.

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[a-d-nox]

chang’e, goddess of the moon (asteroid 4047)

Once the earth had ten suns in its sky - not a minute of darkness existed, only heat and exhaustion. Entire populations faced starvation because the crops would wilt or burn from the heat - in some versions, men and women alike burn to ash. Hou Yi, an ex-member of the heavens, was a skilled archer who nobly faced the suns - he raised his aim to the sky and shot down nine suns. He was deemed a hero by all; his great reward was given to him by the Mother of the West, the Goddess Xiwangmu, who gave him an elixir of immortality. It was enough for a single person to return to the realm of the divine - this perplexed Hou Yi, who didn't wish to be immortal again, if he could not have his wife by his side for all of eternity. So Hou Yi hide the elixir under his bed and acting as though it didn't exist. His wife, also an ex-member of the heavens, Chang'e, however discovered his secret gift and drank every last drop. Hou Yi woke in the middle of the night finding his wife missing from their bed; he rushed outside and saw her being pulled into the night sky. Hou Yi feeling betrayed and knowing what she must have done, took aim at her wishing to shoot her down as he did the suns. He missed - with every miss he found himself less angry and more sad/lonesome. So every night after until the day he died he left her food outside to let her know that he still thought of and cared for her. In some versions, Fengmeng, Hou Yi's apprentice, breaks into their home and attempts to steal the elixir, so Chang'e drinks it to avoid giving him the elixir. IN MY OPINION Chang'e in your chart can show a) spitefulness in a relationship, b) someone who cares less than others, c) the type of loyalty you attract, d) your hunger for immortality/divinity, and/or e) the devotion you receive.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of chang'e along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of chang'e!

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[lisarafox]

The look of Moon Princess Chang'e( Chinese New Year)

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[mayrageous]

life is cooking!

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[overlysarcasticpolls]

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[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Traditional Clothing Hanfu Recreation Based On Painting <嫦娥奔月/ Chang'e Flying to the Moon > BY Artist 任率英 （1911-1989）

【Chinese Mythology About Chang'e (嫦娥) 】

Chang'e (嫦娥) originally known as Heng'e(恒娥), is the Chinese Goddess of the Moon. She is the subject of several legends in Chinese mythology.

In one version, in a very distant past, Chang'e was a beautiful woman. Ten suns had risen together into the skies and scorched the Earth, thus causing hardship for the people.

Houyi(后羿) the archer shot down nine of them, leaving just one Sun, and was given either two or one with enough for two elixirs of immortality as a reward.

He did not consume it straight away, but let Chang'e keep it with her, as he did not want to gain immortality without his beloved wife.However, while Houyi went out hunting, his apprentice Fengmeng(逢蒙) broke into his house and tried to force Chang'e to give the elixir to him. Chang'e took them instead of giving them to Fengmeng. Then,Chang'e flew upward past the heavens, choosing the Moon as a residence, as she loved her husband and hoped to live nearby him.

Houyi discovered what had transpired and felt guilty, so he displayed the fruits and cakes that Chang'e had enjoyed, and killed himself.

But In older versions of the story, Chang'e stole the elixir from Houyi, drank it, and flew to the Moon so that her husband could not go after her

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[cephalopod-celabrator]

Shoutout to female characters from mythology making morally dubious and self-serving actions but doing so with competence and power. Circe turning men to pigs, Medea murdering multiple royal families, Isis threatening to kill the sun himself, Morrigan... being Morrigan, Atalanta killing her suitors, and Chang'e stealing the elixir of immortality. Got to be one of my favorite genders. You can debate their ethics, but you can't debate the hussle.

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[quetzzall]

Jttw doodles

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[dorothygale123]

Today we're gonna be doing some creative interpretation of the myth of the 10 suns (like we did with Sun Wukong becoming the Monkey King a while ago), start to finish, and I'm gonna try to include as many elements from different sources as I can.

So to begin with, the 10 suns are just sick and tired of their mother, Xihe, smothering them. She's too overprotective and refuses to let more than one of them outside at a time, and even then only with her direct supervision on a very set course. So they decide to indulge in a little teen rebellion and all go up into the sky before their mother comes to collect them one morning and immediately decide that teen rebellion is the best and they're never coming down.

Their parents, Xihe and the current ruler of the cosmos Di Jun, try everything in their power to convince them to come down because they're causing the mortals on Earth to suffer, but they don't care and keep partying up in the sky. Eventually, Di Jun thinks that if an authority figure can't convince his sons to come down, maybe a friend will, so he calls up Hou Yi. Hou Yi, being the caretaker of the suns and the god of Riyue Mountain, is the obvious choice. He knows the 10 suns very well and is a good friend to all of them. Surely nothing could go wrong if he was in charge!

Except....

When Hou Yi goes down to the mortal realm to scope out the situation it's bad. Like, really bad. He meets up with a mortal man, Shen I, who had been tasked by the human emperor to deal with the suns with his bow and arrow (somehow), and the ypung demigod Erlang Shen who is pissed beyond reason that his mother died in the heat of the extra suns. The three of them go along to try and talk the suns down, with Hou Yi giving Shen I some very helpful archery tips and becoming good friends with both younger men. He convinces them to let him try to talk it out first, which they reluctantly agree to.

They eventually reach the suns and Hou Yi tells them about all the horrible things happening down on earth because of their behavior, but they refuse to listen. Enraged at his mother's killers being apathetic to the situation they created, Erlang starts throwing mountains at them. He manages to hit a few, but most fly up too high out of his reach and refuse to come back down. This leaves Hou Yi and Shen I no choice but to take their bows and shoot down suns until only one remained in the sky.

With the crisis solved, Hou Yi leaves his mortal friends and goes back to the Heavenly Court, where Di Jun and Xihe are furious. Hou Yi tries to explain the situation, but they're too beside themselves in grief and rage to listen. So, instead of sharing the blame with his two friends, Hou Yi takes all the blame for the incident himself and is punished alone. They strip him of his immortality and banish him to the mortal world. His wife, Chang'e, tries to intercede and have them reconsider but is only sentenced to join her husband in his punishment for her troubles.

Down on earth, Hou Yi is horrified and wracked with guilt that his beloved Chang'e has been reduced to a mortal doing menial tasks and condemned to an eventual death, so he decides to do something about it. He travels all the way to Kunlun and the court of Xiwangmu and explains his situation. She feels really bad for him and wants to help how she can, but she only has one pill of immortality left. The other one had been scooped up by this mortal kid named Shen I, and he was long gone by now. By the time Hou Yi found him, he would have already taken the pill. Disappointed but not hopeless, Hou Yi takes the remaining pill and returns home.

Back at the house, he tells Chang'e the situation and insists she take the pill but she refuses. She's his wife and any life she lives, mortal or otherwise, will be at his side and nowhere else. Hou Yi does his best to try and convince her, but she's stubborn and eventually they decide to put the matter to rest until a later date.

They end up making a life in the mortal realm, with Hou Yi becoming a well respected figure in their community for his archery skills. He takes on several apprentices, including a young man named Feng Meng. He accidently lets it slip to his disciple that there's a pill of immortality in his house, and Feng Meng gets a very dastardly idea. Waiting until Hou Yi was gone, Feng Meng attacked Chang'e when she was alone and demanded the pill. Struck with the choice of regaining her divinity and being separated from her beloved husband for eternity or allowing her killer to become a god, Chang'e takes the pill herself and smites Feng Meng in all her divine glory.

However, she is now unable to stay in the mortal world. Going to find her husband, she explains what happens and they have a tearful goodbye before she ascends into the heavens once more. However, she was unwilling to rejoin the divine court that had banished her husband in the first place, even if Di Jun had stepped down in shame for his sons' actions. So she goes to the moon instead, wanting to be just that little bit closer to her beloved.

This isn't quite the end, though. You see, Erlang and Shen I had been having their own adventures in the intervening years and had become gods themselves. Finding out what had happened to their friend and his wife, they were horrified, especially Shen I who had walked off with the pill of immortality that would have allowed Hou Yi and Chang'e to stay together. He feels even worse because his wife had ended up stealing the pill anyway! (Then she turned into a toad) Both of them end up swearing to assist Chang'e in any way they can in honor of their friend who protected them from Heavenly punishment and was doomed to a mortal life in their stead.

SUCH DRAMA! I love it! What about you guys?

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[the-monkey-ruler]

I want to ask about Houyi, if we assume the suns were bringing pain to humanity, why did the Jade Emperor and the other gods do nothing or not want to? Or couldn't they do anything? Also, Houyi's ending seems a bit tragic to me, but I don't know how many versions there are of the story. That the gods gave him that ending wasn't unfair?

If I had to give a straight answer as to why Houyi had to do it it’s in story reason is that HouYi is meant to be the world’s greatest archer and that’s why he is the one to shoot down the suns, and out of story reason is that if he wasn’t the one to do it, then the story wouldn’t be about Chang’e and Houyi. Sure there could be a million ways about other gods taking down the suns… but now Houyi is irrelevant and has no story anymore. Like I get what you’re trying to say about the same point you have to understand this is folklore, this isn’t like a comic book universe where other gods can just swoop in. There were even contradictions within stories! Hence why you just have to be aware of most of them, and see which ones are most popular that most people ran with.

From what I’ve seen, there were two popular versions of the stories with at least 4 different endings. One being that Houyi and Chang'e were normal humans and that they were given immortal pills as a reward for shooting down the suns, not that they were being punished. And from there, it is whether Chang'e stole the pills all herself OR she was trying to hide the pills from HouYi's jealous rival and she accidentally swallowed them all while hiding them in her mouth. That is more on Chang'e's character and whether she was either a thoughtful wife or not, depends on who is saying it.

But yes another version is that Houyi was tasked to shoot down the sun but he was actually trying to shoot down them ALL! And that is a HORRIBLE idea to shoot all the suns down. His last arrow was stopped by King Yao or Xihe (the sun's mother) to spare at least one of her children before he could shoot them all THAT is what he was punished for. Because while he was tasked to shoot down the sun, killing them all would also lead to humanity's downfall making him a villain. OR That HouYi was ORDERED to shoot all tens suns down and that he ONLY shot the nine. And THAT is what he got in trouble for, for he was actually a hero looking out for humanity and went against an order despite the suns being criminals making him a hero but still punished for his defiance. From there he goes to get the immorality from the Queen Mother but still whether Chang'e was either selfish or trying to protect the pills comes into play.

Those are the popular, two versions but there MORE! Like another version of the story is that after HouYi shot down the suns when he was on earth he actually became the king of his land and then a horrible tyrant. He was so cruel that Chang'e took the first chance she got and swallowed all of the immortal pills to escape his wrath. But without his wife he repented for his sins and tried to win her back but never could reach the moon where she fled for her own safety.

What I'm trying to say here is that... there is a lot of stories about Houyi and not all of them are good. In some stories, he is a guy that was doing his job and was punished for being sent out to kill another goddess's children. In another version, he is a cruel man who rather put the world into darkness for the sake of the hunt. Another is a lost husband who last his wife in tragedy. And another he is a horrible husband that even his own wife tried to escape him and left him on earth. I'm going to be honest, I see more versions of HouYi from the Western Han Dynasty were he was being rewarded with the pills of immorality to come up to heaven to anything else because that is considered what is the most logical in storytelling. And whether Houyi was a bad man or Chang'e was a selfish woman is bounced back and forth from there.

There are a lot of reasons that these stories could have changed over the years and I'm even sure what came first. Perhaps he was an evil man at the start and thus his punishment at the end makes sense, and as time progresses the story makes HouYi more sympathetic as a good man but now the punishment at the end doesn't fit.

Bt if anything this kind of morally grey area can make Houyi a far more interesting character! I think why he and Chang'e's story is still so popular is that it can be changed and seen in so many different ways! Maybe making him the villain, a misunderstood anti-hero, a pure-hearted heart-of-gold sweetheart, there can be so much done with him! I would say that don't feel too beat up by Houyi's story because there are at least seven other versions that either explain why he deserved it and he's a villain or why he went against his order and is a hero. And that is one of the great things about such old folklore is that you can interpret the story how you want to as well. Either way, he is a character in a tragedy love story... so of course he is a tragic character.

Endings:

Mortal and Rewarded, Wife screwed him over

Mortal and Rewarded, Wife and Him were both screwed over

God and Punished, He tried to Overkill

God and Punished, He was Merciful

God and Punished, Wife screwed him over

God and Punished, Wife and Him were both screwed over

Mortal and Reward, Wife ran away from Abuser

God and Punished, Wife ran away from Abuser

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[alexmey-does-an-arts]

chinese new years dragon oc :) i dont see enough chinese mythology/culture stuff in my online sphere smh

he's bringing chang'e mooncakes

also if anyone has some good name suggestions. it has to be in chinese and silly somehow

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[sensational-blue]

The Blood Moon Warriors

During the Chinese mid-autumn festival, also known as the Moon festival. Chang’e returns to her original home she lived in as a mortal. To do that she must travel through demon infested mountains.

To keep the moon goddess safe, her loyal hand maidens turn into valiant warriors under the bloodmoon. they destroy any and all demons that try to intrude on Chang’e’s night.

A little background lore of a powerful form my oc Li Wei has during the blood Moon also if you’ve read my fanfic on my oc you’ll know the other person there is Qiao shu, lady Chang’e original first handmaiden.

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[chiyobambino]

New collage, based on Chang'e, the Chinese goddess of the moon.

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[butthead7]

guys I need answers as fast as you can, is Jade Rabbit an actual thing in Chinese mythology with Chang'e please please please I need to know

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[checkoutmybookshelf]

Complicated Loves, Complicated Griefs

People are really complicated, and Xingying, Liwei, and Wenzhi are no exception. Families are complicated, especially in the Celestial Kingdom. The combination of independent young people, complicated families and *immortal zombies* means that the depth of emotion and lush prose had me in tears over and over again while inhaling this incredible duology.

If I had one criticism of these books--and objectively this is less of a criticsm and more of a "your mileage may vary"--it's that both are just a touch slow to start. Once they get going though, Sue Lynn Tan put the pedal to the metal and does not let up.

I know, I mentioned three names; for those of you who aren't big into love triangles, no fear! Xingying is objectively anti-triangle, and much of her arc and is squaring the love she holds for her mother with her own need for adventure and the very deep and incredibly different loves she holds for Liwei and Wenzhi. And if you don't think those things clash in every single possible way, then you have underestimated the complexity of the emotional tangles in these books.

Liwei and Wenzhi are...an interesting pair of potential love interests for Xingying. They are both integral parts of her life, but significantly different ones. What is done extraoirdinarily well, though, is that they facilitate and influence Xingying's growth into a well-rounded, nuanced version of herself. They bring out her strength and then they support her strengths--even as she is wiping the floor with them when required.

When I was at the 2/3 mark in Heart of the Sun Warrior, I had a brief moment of "The only way out of this book alive is an OT3 a la Iron Widow," but the actual way out of the book had so much more emotional nuance, leveraged the extant relationships, and really honored Xingying's desires, growth, and very real love and grief. Sue Lynn Tan exceeded my wildest expectations in this story.

I really, really don't want to give spoilers for these incredible books, so suffice it to say that Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior are the most intensive, beautiful explorations of different kinds of love and grief that I have seen in a LONG time.

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