后羿射日（英文版）神话故事

Long long ago (In the ancient me),there were ten suns in the sky. In scorching heat, some people have died of sunstroke and dehydraon? and all of plants can not survive. As a

result, the world was being destroyed by heat. At this me,a handsome young man whose name is Houyi appeared. He want to save the world.?

One day, he came to a broad field with his arrows. Then he placed an arrow against the bow-string and drew it to the full, then let his arrow go one of the suns was killed and fell down. But sll the earth was buring. So Houyi drew the bow and let the arrow go again.

When the ninth fell from the sky. Houyi was told that the world needed one sun to give its warmth and light. Finally, houyi gained two magical pill that can make someone who take it become immortal.?

And Houyi wanted to give one to his girlfriend chang'e. Unfortunately, one evening, Houyi didn't at home, a thief broke into his house and order chang'e surrender the pill. Chang'e felt very helpless and didn't know how to do. So she swallowed the two pills. In the end, chang'e flew to the moon.

译文：

相传在很久很久之前，天上有十个太阳，它们是东方天帝的儿子，十个太阳每天一换，将光亮带向人间。但是时间久了之后，十个太阳觉得非常无聊，就一起出现在了天空上面，这下子人们可就受不了了。

幸好有一个年轻的英雄后裔出现了，他是一个神射手，力大无穷、箭法超群，他不忍人们生活于苦难之中，就想要射下多余的九个太阳，帮助人们脱离困境。于是他一路翻山越岭，经历了重重磨难，最后来到了东海边，登上了一座大山。

后裔站在山顶，搭箭拉弓，瞄准天上的太阳，只听“嗖——嗖——”几声，他接连射下了九个太阳，只剩最后一个太阳还挂在天上，它害怕极了，老老实实的听后裔的吩咐，继续为大地和人们贡献光亮。此后后裔也被无数人视为射日英雄，受到了崇敬与爱戴。

扩展资料：

后羿射日，是中国古代神话传说。远古的时候，大地出现了严重的旱灾。炎热烤焦了森林，烘干了大地，晒干了禾苗草木。原来，帝俊与羲和生了10个孩子都是太阳，他们住在东方海外，海水中有棵大树叫扶桑。

10个太阳睡在枝条的底下，轮流跑出来在天空执勤，照耀大地。但有时，他们一齐出来给人类带来了灾难。为了拯救人类，后羿张弓搭箭，向那9个太阳射去。只见天空出现爆裂的火球，坠下一只只三足乌。最后，天上只留下一个太阳。

科学解释：

NASA华裔科学家赵丰教授认为：后羿射日事件其实是一次彗星撞击地球事件，类似于1994年levy-9彗星撞击木星事件的缩小版。因为彗星质地松散，当彗星被行星捕捉，在潮汐力作用下会发生解体成为一串天体，所谓九日，正是彗星解体为9块。

9块天体进入地球大气层后，因摩擦灼热成为似“太阳”的发光发热体，这便是山海经中“九日居下枝，一日居上枝”。接着这些看似“太阳”的物体便会很快一一撞击地球，因为彗星质地松散，撞击行星后并不会留下明显的陨石坑，所以陨落之处一片焦黑泥烂，这便是山海经中“羿射九日，落为沃焦”的原因。

彗星撞击行星事件在漫长的太阳系历史里是经常发生的，后羿射日很可能是远古先民亲眼目睹了一次彗星撞击地球的盛况，惊恐万分而又无能为力的他们只好向其射箭，从而留下了这相传千年的传奇神话故事-后羿射日。

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中国古代神话故事英文版

Pan Gu Makes the World（盘古开天地）

In the beginning , the heavens and earth were still one and all was chaos. The universe was like a big black egg, carrying Pan Gu inside itself. After 18 thousand years Pan Gu woke from a long sleep. He felt suffocated, so he took up a broadax and wielded it with all his might to crack open the egg. The light, clear part of it floated up and formed the heavens, the cold, turbid matter stayed below to form earth. Pan Gu stood in the middle, his head touching the sky, his feet planted on the earth. The heavens and the earth began to grow at a rate of ten feet

per day, and Pan Gu grew along with them. After another 18 thousand years, the sky was higher, the earth thicker, and Pan Gu stood between them like a pillar 9 million li in height so that they would never join again. When Pan Gu died, his breath became the wind and clouds, his voice the rolling thunder. One eye became the sun and on the moon. His body and limbs turned to five big mountains and his blood formed the roaring water. His veins became far-stretching roads and his muscles fertile land. The innumerable stars in the sky came from his hair and beard, and flowers and trees from his skin and the fine hairs on his body. His marrow turned to jade and pearls. His sweat flowed like the good rain and sweet dew that nurtured all things on earth. According to some versions of the Pan Gu legend, his tears flowed to make rivers and radiance of his eyes turned into thunder and lighting. When he was happy the sun shone, but when he was angry black clouds gathered in the sky. One version of the legend has it that the fleas and lice on his body became the ancestors of mankind.

The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea

Once upon a time, the youngest daughter of Emperor Yan, legendary ruler of primitive China, went boating on the Eastern Sea. While she was enjoying herself, a strong wind rose on the sea and her boat capsized. Just before she was buried by the surging waves, her spirit turned into a beautiful bird. As it flew over the roaring sea, it cried sadly in the sound "jinwei, jingwei". That was why people called it "Jingwei".

The bird lived on a mountain near the sea. It hated the sea so much that it decided to fill it up. Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.

One day, the roaring sea said to Jingwei, "Poor little bird, stop doing that meaningless thing! You'll never fill me up." Jingwei replied, "I'll fill you up no doubt! I will, even if it'll take me thousands of years! I'll fight on until doomsday!"

The brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the Eastern Sea without taking a rest.

From this fable comes the idiom "The bird Jingwei trying to fill the sea". We use it to describe people who are firm and indomitable and will not stop until they reach their goal.

————精卫填海

Taihang, Wong Uk two mountains, up to a radius of 700, up to ten feet Qiba Qian. They originally located in the southern part of Jizhou, on the north shore of the Yellow River.

Called the Foolish Old Man of the northern people, nearly 90-year-old age, living in the face of Hill. Foolish Old Man of the Hill suffer from blocking the road to the north, go all the way Raoyuan. Foolish Old Man of the then convened to discuss the whole family, said: "You and I both tried two big mountains to be leveled, it has to pass Yuzhou in the south, to reach the south bank of Han River, will you?" We have agreed with him. Foolish Old Man's wife questioned said: "With your strength, not even the father of Quebec Hill have cut the land grievances, and can Taihang, Wong Uk Shan how these two do? Besides, where on earth to go?" We One after another: "to the edge of the earth and rock into the Bohai Sea, north of the hidden land." Foolish Old Man of the children and grandchildren can then lead the three-Tiaodan, stone cutting, digging the soil, Kei basket delivered to the edge of the Bohai Sea. Beijing's neighbors last name has a widow orphans, just seven or eight years old, to help them bounce. Winter and summer seasons, the only one from this.

The bend-chi to stop the Foolish Old Man of old gentleman with a smile: "You too smart. With your remaining years of effort, not to destroy a mountain of grass, mud and rock how can?" Foolish Old Man of the Beishan A long heavy sigh and said: "You thought stubborn, obstinate to the point where can not be changed, not as widows and small children. Even if I die, and his son in it; son and grandson of Health, sons and grandchildren; son and his son, Son and grandson; children and grandchildren did not come to an end, but Hill will not increase the height of injustice dug why worry? "Moses old gentleman does not bend, then to answer.

Holding the snake mountain heard about it, for fear he kept digging continues, the Association reported on the matter. Emperor moved by his sincerity, the command's E boast two sons go back two Hill. On the eastern part of a Shuofang, a Yongzhou on the south. Since then, in the south of Jizhou, north of the Han River, there is no barrier of high mountains.

———愚公移山