Guangzhou is also known as "Yangcheng" and "Suicheng". According to legend, in ancient times, five immortals came here riding five-color sheep, each carrying a bunch of ears of grain. The immortals gave the ears of grain to the residents, wishing the place to have abundant crops and never have famine. After the immortal floated away, leaving the five sheep turned into stone. Therefore, later generations also called Guangzhou "Yangcheng", "Wuyangcheng", "Xiancheng" and "Suicheng".
Famous figures in Yangcheng:
1. Yang Fu
Yang Fu, courtesy name Xiaoyuan, was a native of Panyu, Nanhai County in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. He once served as Yilang . Yang Fu was knowledgeable and honest as an official. When he took office, he proposed to rectify the official administration, to use integrity as the standard and to govern the world with filial piety, which was adopted by the emperor. He wrote my country's first regional monograph on regional products, "Southern Foreign Objects", which is Historians recognize him as the first scholar in Lingnan who wrote books. ?
2. Cui Yuyu
Cui Yuyu, a native of Zengcheng, Guangdong, was a famous official in the Southern Song Dynasty. Diligent and caring for the people, honest and honest, with outstanding political achievements, Huaidong and Sichuan resisted the Jin Dynasty and stabilized the border defense. Created the Jupo School, the first academic school in Lingnan history. He has profound literary attainments and elegant and vigorous poetry, and is known as the "ancestor of Cantonese poetry". His posthumous title is "Qingxian", and together with Zhang Jiuling, a famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty who was posthumously named "Wenxian", they are collectively called "Erxian". ?
3. Li Pleiades
Li Pleiades, courtesy name Junming, known as "Li Tanhua", was born in Panyu, Guangdong, and was a famous minister and scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. The first candidate from Guangdong in the ancient imperial examinations. He was an upright official and not afraid of power. He impeached powerful ministers Jia Sidao and Ding Daquan many times. Later, he became the right historian of Taichang Qing, and also served as the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Shenglongtu He was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, became the official of the Central Government, and was granted the title of Baron of the Founding of Panyu. ?
4. Chen Dazhen
Chen Dazhen, courtesy name Xisheng, was born in Panyu, Guangzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty. During the Lizong period of the Song Dynasty, he was a Jinshi, and he had successive official positions: Chief Boluo, Magistrate of Changle County, Magistrate of Guangji County, Quanzhi Leizhou, and Chaofengdafu. As an official throughout his life, he should be fair, upright and honest, abide by etiquette and law, and cultivate himself and his family. He acted decisively and judged hundreds of cases without any unjust cases. He was called the "divine judge" by the people.
5. Zhong Yuyan
Zhong Yuyan, named Qichu, courtesy name Shengde, and nickname Yuyan, was born in Chini, Huaxian County, Guangdong in the 25th year of Shaoxing, the Southern Song Dynasty, when he was eight years old. He moved to Luogang, Panyu with his father. In the first year of Kaixi (1205), he became a Jinshi in the First Division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He loved the people like a son. The Yuyan Academy where he lectured and taught apprentices was a famous early academy in Guangzhou, and it is also the earliest and best-preserved academy in existence.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangzhou