Xihe; Mother of the Suns; was a solar deity from Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. Alongside Changxi; she was one of the two wives of Di Jun; God of the Eastern Heaven; and the mother of the ten three-legged sunbirds who lived in a mulberry tree in the East Sea known as the Fusang.

Every day; one of her sunbirds would travel with her on her sun chariot; pulled by a dragon-horse (kirin). Together they would bring light to the mortal world; but one day the sunbirds became restless and mischievous; and all left the Fusang at once. This resulted in great calamity throughout the earth; leading to the divine archer Houyi shooting down all but one of Xihe's errant offspring.