North of the Blacktooth Country, far east of the East Sea, lies the Boiling Valley - Tangu. In this valley lived the Lord of the East Di-jun and his wife Xihe. As we know, she became the mother of ten sun sons at once, whom she settled among the branches of the great fusan tree that supports the sky. But people have always seen the same sun. And this is why it turned out this way. A jade rooster sat on the top of the tree all year. When the darkness of the night began to dissipate, he spread his wings and crowed loudly. He was echoed by a golden rooster on a peach tree. Hearing the rooster's crow, the spirits and ghosts hastily fled to their hiding places. Following the golden rooster, the stone roosters of the famous mountains and streams crowed, and then all the roosters of the Celestial Empire. After this, Xihe, in a chariot drawn by six dragons, took one of the brothers - the suns - to the sky. And the rest had to sit on a tree and wait their turn. That is why people thought that there was only one sun.
In the end, the brothers got tired of such a monotonous life. They whispered among themselves. The next morning they flew into the sky after the chariot, scattered across the entire sky and began to frolic. They did not pay attention to their mother's cries because they were poorly brought up. And every morning they began to fly into the sky all together. The earth cracked from the heat, people turned black, and famine set in. Terrible animals ran out of the burning forests and boiling rivers, birds flew out, and fish came ashore. And ten suns frolicked in the sky, not paying attention to how much trouble their pranks brought.
The wise ruler Yao, who was distinguished by great modesty and lived in a simple reed hut, eating herbal decoctions, was very saddened by the troubles of his people. He respectfully appealed to the Supreme Lord of the East with a request to reason with his children. Dijun sighed heavily and called to him a heavenly archer named Yi. He ordered the archer to go down to the ground and scare the naughty boys so much that they themselves flew to the fusang tree and began to take turns, under the supervision of their mother, to go to heaven.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru