Version 1: In the eighth year of Zhou Yi (887 BC), Guangzhou suffered from famine for years, with barren fields, poor agricultural harvest and poor people. One day, melodious music suddenly came from the sky in the South China Sea, and five colorful auspicious clouds appeared. There are five immortals in the sky, dressed in colorful clothes, riding goats of different colors, with six stalks of good rice in their mouths, who come to Chuting. The immortal gave the ear of rice to Guangzhou people and wished that there would never be a famine here. May the gods fly in the air, and the five fairy sheep turn into stones and stay on the hillside of Guangzhou. Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan. This is why Guangzhou is known as "Five Yangcheng", "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou".
Version 2: The situation of the arrival of the Five Immortals is similar, but it is said that the time was when the Nanhai man Gao Gu became Chu Weiwang, that is, during the Warring States Period of Zhou Xianwang.
Version 3: During the Jin Dynasty, Wu was the secretariat of Guangzhou. Before he took office, five immortals rode colorful sheep and came to the hall of guangzhou fu with food on their backs. Wu Xiu painted five immortals in the hall to show auspicious commemoration, and called Guangzhou the "Five Immortals City". Now the Wuxian Temple on Huifu West Road in Guangzhou is said to be the place where Wuxian came. Guangzhou people specially built Wuxian Temple to commemorate five immortals, and there are statues of five immortals and five sheep in the main hall. The only drawback of this version is that Wu Xiu has not yet taken office. How can you see the appearance of five immortals who have come to guangzhou fu Hall and draw them on the hall?
According to Guangdong Tongzhi, the ruins of Wuxian Temple have been relocated many times in the past dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, it was in Shixianfang (now around the Finance Department of Jingdao Province), and from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was near Guxi Lake (now around Jiaoyu Road). In the tenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (AD 1377), Zhao Sijian, a military affairs minister, changed the original Wuxian Temple into Guangfeng Library and rebuilt it at the current site of Poshan on Huifu Road. On the east side of Wuxian Temple, there is also a huge river sandstone footprint cave named "immortal thumb mark" (that is, immortal footprint).
That sounds a little too serious. The place where the fairies came from was moved around, and a footprint was moved around, which was a bit of a joke. However, anyway, there is a place for them to stay as a souvenir. What's interesting is the footprints. Such a naive and gratifying statement will be naive and gratifying to everyone. Qu Dajun's "Guangdong New Language" said: "There are huge stones in the Suishi Cave, which can be four or five feet wide. There are thumb prints on it, and the traces are full of water. Although the drought is endless, it seems that there is a spring under it, which is different. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this "immortal thumb trace" was also included in the eight scenic spots in Yangcheng, which were called "Dong Tian of Sui Dynasty" and "Cave in Wuxia". Guangzhou people's "welcome" (casual) and innocence in this incident are impressive.
As for the Wuxian Temple, which finally settled in Huifu Road, it was abandoned before liberation and renovated after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the portraits of the five mountains and the five stone sheep in the temple were not restored. Instead, it was a huge statue of Wuyang carved with 130 pieces of granite in Yuexiu Park. It is said that the stone on the head of the main sheep alone weighs more than 4000 kilograms.
Why Wuxian Mountain is a sheep, but not other lions, tigers and elephants, has been studied to the primitive society, and it is said that it may come from the totem worship of primitive people in Guangzhou. At that time, there were five tribes named Jiang in southern China, all of which took sheep as totems and were distinguished by five colors: yellow, red, black, white and purple. They worship sheep as a symbol of good luck and bring them happiness. Among them, the "antelope" engaged in primitive agriculture in Guangzhou is the most prosperous. It is said that their best skill is to grow rice, and it is also high-yielding, thus leading a better life.
It seems that the people of the "Antelope" tribe are not only good at cultivating improved varieties of rice, but also great writers-as early as the primitive society, they created such a well-known novel. Fortunately, it was a primitive society, and there was no royalty. Otherwise, they would definitely not improve rice and become professional writers.