Seven Moons

Once upon a time, there were seven moons in the sky. They all came out at night, which made the night as bright as daytime.

"It is too bright. We can't sleep well," complaint the people.

"Wouw, wouw, wouw," complaint the animals, as some of them couldn't do hunting at night. Others couldn't rest too.

Finally, there was a brave and strong man decided to shoot down all the moons with his bow and arrows. He tried to shoot as high as he could, but the arrows couldn't reach the moons.

"You have to soak your arrows with phoenix's blood. In Mandarin, it is called 凤凰. According to the legend, this bird lives in the mountain not far from here," said the oldest man in the village to the brave man.

So the brave man decided to look for phoenix. He spent three days to climb up the mountain, searched ten days in the snow and finally he found the phoenix. It's whole body was full of fire. The young man fought three days three nights with the phoenix. Finally, he successfully killed the phoenix. He immediately soaked seven arrows with it's blood.

When he reached home, the brave man was too tired. So he decided to take a sleep first. While he was sleeping, his child took out one of the arrows, thought that it was a toy and played with it. The arrow was then being pushed under the bed before the brave man woke up.

That night, the man was ready to shoot down all the seven moons. The spirit of phoenix enabled the arrows flew to the outer space and shot down the moons, one by one. After shooting down six moons, the man realised that he didn't have arrow left.

"Where is another arrow? I remember I soaked seven arrows with phoenix's blood."

Until today, we still have one moon in the sky. But the situation has improved, all the people and animals are happy to have one moon.