嫦娥故事改编 结合现代因素.ppt

The Legend of Chang E;According to legend, Change and her husband Houyi were immortals living in heaven. Hou Yi was a good, courageous god with a beautiful wife, Chang Er. Deeply in love with each other, they were known as the Divine Couple. ; One day, the ten sons of the Jade Emperor transformed into ten suns, causing the earth to scorch. Having failed to order his sons to stop ruining the earth, the Jade Emperor summoned Houyi for help. Houyi, using his legendary archery（射手） skills, shot down nine of the sons, but spared one son to be the sun. The Jade Emperor was obviously not pleased with Houyis solution to save the earth: nine of his sons were dead. As punishment, the Jade Emperor banished Houyi and Change to live as mere mortals on earth.; Seeing that Change felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to journey on a long, perilous quest to find the pill of immortality（不朽，不老） so that the couple could be immortals again. At the end of his quest ，he met the Queen Mother of the West who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half the pill to become immortal.; Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Change not to open the case and then left home for a while. Like Pandora in Greek mythology, Change became too curious: she opened up the case and found the pill just as Houyi was returning home. ;Nervous that Houyi would catch her discovering the contents of the case, she accidentally swallowed the entire pill. Although Houyi wanted to shoot her in order to prevent her from floating further, he could not bear to aim the arrow at her. Change kept on floating until she landed on the moon.;While she became lonely on the moon without her husband, she did have company. A jade rabbit, who manufactured elixirs(长生不老药), also lived on the moon. ; Another companion is the woodcutter Wu Gang.;he offended the gods in his attempt to achieve immortality and was therefore banished on