Hou Yi
deity earth Chinese single tradition · 3
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1382 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1600 BCE
- Attested period
- -1600 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in stories from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Yu Tu, Zhao Gongming
- teacher of
- Fengmeng
- creator of
- Eight Immortals of the Sea
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Hou Yi, a legendary archer and the husband of Chang'e, shot down nine of them, leaving just one Sun, and was rewarded with two portions of the elixir of immortality.”
#18637 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“when the heavens bore ten suns, the Emperor commanded the archer Hou Yi to shoot down nine of them.”
#21905 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001