caused many plants and animals and other living things to die out because the heat was too much for life to exist. An archer named Yi was then sent down from the heavens with a magic bow to kill off the suns so that life can continue to prosper. Yi then shot down nine suns, leaving one sun, the sun that still exist today.The Chinese had another way of explaining how things came to be. The Yin/Yang theory is the most popular out of all that explains creation. It was believed that there was a single cosmic being but soon after the cosmic being grew a part forming Yin and Yang (Cavendish 393-394). Yin represents earth, dark, female, and heavy while Yang represents heaven, bright, male, and light. By combining the two, you get the five elements water, fire, wood, earth, and metal. It also was said that various combinations of the two halves, created things.The religion known as Confucianism, was the first religion to really use the Yin and Yang concept in their religious beliefs (Ehmen 1). With this belief, all life and existence forms from yin and yang. The two forces are said to be interdependent partners. Many religions came to follow the beliefs of the Yin and Yang as the Ching and Taoism religions followed the yin yang theory along with those who followed the beliefs of Confucius.The basic point of the Yin/Yang concept was to explain that every object has another object that is total opposite of it. The Chinese classified everything into the two categories. They believed that one couldnt exist without the other. The balance of good/evil came from this concept also. With this concept being a big part of the Chinese beliefs, many myths were created with tales of bad vs. evil during the creation process. In a particular story The Legend of the Demon Chaser, there was an emperor who was having trouble with demons (Glubok 16-17). They had came into his palace and stole a flute and began to dance while playing the flute. He...
