his magical weapons and took to drink.
Hou Yi' s enemy Feng Meng watch and waited until Hou Yi was senselessly drunk, then
he attacked Hou Yi then and killed him. When Chang Er arrived at the cold palace in
the moon and saw how her husband had been cruelly murdered she deeply mourned what
she had done. She was cut off from the happy life in heaven and committed to eternity
alone in the moon, becaming the moon goddess.
Each year on the 15th day of the eighth month, when the moon is at its fullest and
brightest, people look at the moon and try to see in it the image of a beautiful maiden.