to shoot her down but failed. For her sacrifice, people have taken to honoring her during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Historical references Hou Yi—usually conflated with the legendary figure in ancient sources—was also a tribal leader of ancient China who according to the Bamboo Annals attacked the Xia during the first year of the reign of and occupied his capital Zhenxun while Taikang was hunting beyond the Luo River. Hou Yi was deposed by his lieutenant Han Zhuo in the eighth year of the reign of Taikang's nephew . In popular culture Hou Yi appears in the video game Smite as a hunter Hou Yi appears on the wall of Dao Shi’s office in the fifth episode of TenCent’s “Three Body”, and is mentioned by the characters as an allusion to the Trisolaran predicament. Hou Yi appears in Over the Moon, on flashbacks and as a ghost. Hou Yi appears in the 2022 mobile RPG game, Dislyte, renamed as Dayi. His ability in the game references the shooting down of the 9 suns. In the light novel "second Life ranker " the character Bow god Jang Wei is said to be Hou yi's disciple. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s 2016 xianxia/wuxia web novel Modao Zushi (魔道祖师) may reference this mythology with its “Sunshot Campaign.” The story features a tyrannical clan seemingly too powerful to defeat; lesser clans’ union against them—to “shoot down the sun” —is called the Sunshot Campaign. See also Mid-Autumn Festival for variants of this legend Korean creation narratives References Chinese male archers Chinese gods Mythological archers Mythological hunters