He has long been worshipped as the god of money and good harvests in Japan.

He was kind and is said to have helped a rabbit.

Kuafu raced against the sun and chased after it until it set; He felt thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he went to the Yellow River and Wei River to drink water. The water in the Yellow River and Wei River is not enough, so go north to the Great Lake to drink water. He died of thirst on the way to the lake before reaching it. And his discarded cane turned into a peach grove.

Ancient times, in the north of the country, there is a magnificent towering chengdu contained tianshan mountains there lived a giant called kuafu family clan. kuafu tribe leader called braggadocio, he was extremely tall, litaiwuqiong,strong-willed,the extraordinary spirit.

at that time, the world's desolation behind, poisonous snakes wild beasts run amok, and people's lives miserable. kuafu the purpose of this tribe of people can live births every day and led the crowd fighting with the scourge.

One year, days of drought. like fire and the sun scorched the ground crops, dried up river water. one hot uncomfortable, i can not live. kuafu to see this scenario, we set ambitious vowed to catch the sun and let it listen to the people's instructions, and better service for everyone.

Sun in the sky flew forward,braggadocio on the ground as high winds to recover. kuafu kept chasing , hungry, picking a wild fruit boxes; thirsty, and holding a river mouth thirst-quenching; tired, and was only a nap.

however, the closer from the sun, the more intense sunlight, kuafu feel more and more intolerable anxiety, he felt he was covered in water have been evaporated, and urgent, he needs to drink plenty of water.

so stand up and walk south-east of kuafu the yellow river, fu xiashen son, drank the water of the yellow river, the yellow river water was that he hegan, and he was going to drink the water in the weihe river. who knows, he hegan of the weihe river water, or not to quench your thirst. as a result, he intended to go north, going to drink a large ze water. however, the braggadocio is really tired and too thirsty, and when he went half way, the body will no longer unable to cope, and slowly fall to the ground, dead.

The Sun set that night , just like it always did . When it rose , the Gods saw that Kua Fu had turned into a mountain .The peach tree he had carried had become a grove of peach trees. The Sun no longer baked the ground .

Once upon a time, there was a cowherd named Niulang and a fairy named Zhinü. Zhinü was a daughter of the God of Heaven, and she had come to the human world to bathe in a lake.

Niulang saw the beautiful fairy and decided to follow her to a secret place. He was so mesmerized that he stayed with her for several days without realizing it.

One day, the God of Heaven found out that Niulang had taken one of his daughters and was furious. He punished them by sending a storm to separate the two of them.

Niulang and Zhinü were torn apart by the storm and each of them returned to their original place. Niulang was on the ground, while Zhinü was in the sky, and they could no longer be together.

But since they still loved each other, once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge in the sky connecting the two stars Altair and Vega. This way, Zhinü and Niulang could meet each other and be reunited for a day.

And thus, the romantic story of the cowherd and the fairy came to be.