Three suns reportedly appeared simultaneously in China; once in Khorgas and another time in Mohe City. According to a Chinese myth, the earth originally had ten suns which would cross the sky one by one. Then, one day when all ten suns came out together, they scorched the earth. A mythical King Yao tasked Hou Yi 后羿 to rein in the suns. Hou Yi is a mythological Chinese archer, a god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind. He reasoned with the suns to come out one by one, pretended to shoot them and when all that didn't work, he shot them one by one with his bow and arrow until the earth was left with just one sun. The last sun was spared for the prosperity of man. In Khorgas and Mohe City, the three suns were an optical illusion, a rare natural phenomenon called parhelion which occurred when sunlight passes through high-altitude ice crystals in cirrus clouds.
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