《后羿射日》最早记载于西汉的《淮南子·本经训》，流传了约两千一百年，讲的是古人想象中"天上为什么只有一个太阳"。原文写的是尧的时候"十日并出"，晒坏了庄稼，尧派羿"上射十日"——**射的是十个，"射下九个、留下一个"是后来民间流传的讲法**，本集采用大家最熟悉的这一版。另外，射太阳的这位神射手在古书里叫"羿"，和夏朝那位有穷氏"后羿"本是两个人，很早就被后人混在了一起；今天大家都说"后羿射日"，所以标题和故事里都从俗，称他"后羿"。十个太阳是羲和的孩子、住在东方汤谷的扶桑树上，这些出自《山海经》，和《淮南子》本是两个来源，是后人合起来讲的。原文里羿还除掉了六种害人的怪兽，本集不讲。
在很远很远的东方，大海边上长着一棵大树叫扶桑，树上住着十个太阳。他们长得像十只金色的大鸟，每天轮一个飞上天，从东边飞到西边，把光和暖送给大地。可是有一天早上，十个太阳一起醒了过来："天天一个人飞，多没意思呀，我们今天一起飞！"于是"呼"的一下，十个太阳全都飞上了天。河水一天比一天浅，禾苗黄了、卷了，地也裂开了口子。首领尧请来了当时最厉害的射手——后羿。后羿背上大弓爬到最高的山顶，"嗖"的一箭，一个太阳就散成千千万万点金色的光落了下来。射到第九个的时候，天上只剩下一个了。后羿又搭上一支箭，却忽然停住，慢慢把弓放了下来。你猜猜看，这是为什么呢？
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后羿射日。兒童睡前故事、兒童故事、中國神話、親子中文、中文學習、海外華人。
"Hou Yi Shoots the Suns" (后羿射日, hòu yì shè rì) explains why there is only one sun in the sky. It was first written down about 2,100 years ago in a book called *Huainanzi* (《淮南子》). The old book says the archer shot down *all ten* suns — the version where he leaves one behind came later, from folk retellings, and that is the one we tell here. Also, the archer in the old book is called simply "Yi," and he is not the same person as "Hou Yi" of the Xia dynasty; the two were mixed up long ago. Today everyone says "Hou Yi," so we use that familiar name throughout. The ten suns living on the Fusang tree come from a different old book, the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* (《山海经》).
Far away in the east, by the great sea, grew a huge tree called Fusang, and ten suns lived in it. They looked like ten golden birds. Each morning one of them took a turn flying across the sky, from east to west, bringing light and warmth to the world. But one morning, all ten woke up at once. "Flying alone every day is so boring — let's all fly together today!" And whoosh — up went all ten suns. The rivers ran low, the young crops turned yellow and crumbled, and the ground cracked open. So the leader Yao sent for the finest archer of that time: Hou Yi. He climbed to the highest mountaintop with his great bow. Twang! — and one sun burst into thousands of golden sparks and drifted down. After the ninth, only one sun was left. Hou Yi set another arrow on the string... and then he stopped, and slowly lowered his bow. Can you guess why?
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