What are the basic elements of the Five Sheep Myth? What characteristics of Lingnan culture are reflected in the account of this myth?

In the 9th century BC, the state of Chu of the Zhou Dynasty built a city called Chuting in present-day Guangzhou. One year, due to successive disasters, Chuting's fields were left barren, agriculture failed, and the people were starving. One day, five auspicious clouds appeared in the sky of the South China Sea, on which there were five immortals, dressed in red, orange, yellow, green and purple, riding five immortal sheep, which carried a rice plant with six ears in its mouth, and landed in the city. The immortal gave the ears of rice to the people and left the five sheep behind, wishing that there would never be any famine here, and then took off in the air.

From then on, Guangzhou became the most affluent place in Lingnan; it also began to be called the "City of Sheep", the "City of Five Sheep" and the "City of Spike".

One, the openness of absorbing foreign cultures

Two, the enterprising spirit of striving to transcend the "traditional orientation"

Three, the cultural tendency to emphasize the importance of business and profitability

The city has become the most affluent place in the South China Sea.