4hw.org: many friends from other places may not have heard of Yangcheng, but when it comes to Guangzhou, there are few people who don't know about it. It's one of the four first tier cities in China. Actually, Yangcheng is another name of Guangzhou. Do you know why Guangzhou is also called Yangcheng? How does Yangcheng come from? Let's have a look!
Around the Zhou Dynasty, Guangzhou suffered from successive years of famine, the fields were barren, the agriculture lost its harvest, and the people could not afford to have enough food and clothing. One day, a melodious music came from the sky in the South China Sea, and five colorful auspicious clouds appeared, on which there were five immortals, wearing five colored clothes, riding different colored Xianyang with rice ears in their mouths, to Guangzhou. The immortal gave the fine ears of rice to the people of Guangzhou, and wished that there would be no famine in this area. I wish that the immortal would fly away, and that five immortal sheep would turn into stone sheep and stay on the hillside of Guangzhou. Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in the south of the five ridges with the dream of inheriting immortals, fragrant rice and abundant harvest every year. This is why Guangzhou has the names of "Wuyang city", "Suicheng city" and "Yangcheng city". There are all kinds of theories about the time when the five immortals came. Some say that it happened in the eighth year of King Zhou Yi (887 BC). Some say that the arrival of the five immortals was the time when Gao Gu from the South China Sea was king Xiang of Chu Wei, and it was the Warring States period. There is also a saying that Wu Xiu was the governor of Guangzhou in the Jin Dynasty. Five immortals rode five sheep with five grains on their backs to the hall of Guangzhou's Zhouzhi. Wu Xiu then painted five immortals in the hall for auspiciousness and commemoration. It is said that the five immortals temple on the West HuiFu road in Guangzhou today is the place where the five immortals came. Guangzhou people have built the five immortals temple in memory of the five immortals here, and there are statues of the five immortals and the five sheep in the hall. In the east of WUXIANGUAN, there is also a huge red sandstone footprintlike concave stone, known as "immortal hallux trace" (hallux trace refers to footprints).
On the wooden shell hill of Yuexiu mountain in Guangzhou, there is a wuyangshi statue built in 1959. It was created by Yin Jichang, a famous sculptor, according to the legend of Wuyang. The statue is 11 meters high with more than 130 pieces of granite. The volume is about 53 cubic meters. Only one stone at the head of the main sheep weighs more than 4000 Jin. The five sheep are different in size. The head of the main sheep is high and erect, with ears in its mouth. It Moos and smiles back to visit the world. There are four sheep around it, playing games, eating grass, and the lambs sucking the milk of the ewes. The five sheep have different posture, beautiful shape, lifelike, overflowing with interest, which makes people forget to go back and imagine. It is said that when the statue was completed, there was some discussion. Some people proposed that how could there be sucking sucking sucking sucking sheep? In fact, five immortal sheep are beautiful myths. They are both immortal sheep, regardless of their size, with immortal wind and immortal bones. Sculptors exert their unique imagination and ingenuity. After more than 40 years of historical tests, Wuyang stone carvings created by historical legends are known as the city emblem of Guangzhou, adding a lot of color to the famous historical and cultural city. In July 1999, Wuyang stone carving was listed as a cultural relic protection unit by Guangzhou municipal government.