Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. I got the elixir by accident, only to be seen by Feng Meng. Feng Meng took advantage of Hou Yi's absence to coerce Chang 'e into handing over the elixir. In a crisis, Chang 'e took out the medicine and swallowed it. So he became a fairy on the moon.

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Chang 'e is the moon fairy in China mythology. In The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the daughter of Di Jun, a medieval emperor, and the wife of Dayu, a beautiful woman, were originally named (Heng E). In the Western Han Dynasty, to avoid the taboo of Emperor Wu, they were renamed as E, also known as Chang 'e, and some people called it Chang 'e.

In mythology, Dayi lived in the Guanghan Palace above the moon because she took the elixir of the Queen Mother of the West. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no data to show that Chang 'e and Yi were husband and wife, and Guizang explained that they might be husband and wife by comparing divinatory symbols.

It was not until Gaoyou annotated Huai Nan Zi that Chang 'e was Hou Yi's wife. In some folklore, Chang 'e and Xing Jun, the goddess of the Moon in Taoist mythology, are combined into one, and are honored as the female images of Huang Huasu of the Moon Palace, Yao Yuan's net victory over Hou Taiyin Yuan Jun, or Huang Junxiao and Wang Ming of the Moon Palace.