What is the symbolic significance of the statue of Wuyang?

The statue of Wuyang symbolizes Lingnan culture and Guangzhou culture. Modern research believes that the statue of Wuyang may contain many historical facts:

1, Chu people introduced high-yield rice seeds to Lingnan. The surname of the ancestors of the Chu royal family is Mi, which is homophonic with "Ba" and is an onomatopoeic word for sheep barking.

2. In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, under the oppression of Chu people, the Ji tribe in Hanyang moved to Lingnan with their flocks and grains, and spread the technology of planting rice to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta.

3. According to the sentence "Gao Gu is the Prime Minister of Chu Weiwang" in Guangzhou, it is considered that Gao Gu tribe migrated to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta with rice seeds during the Warring States Period. After Gao Gu became Duke Wen of Qi, Jiang surnamed and Jiang listened to a ewe, so he took the sheep as a symbol.

4. "Sheep" actually means "dog" in Chu language, so the legend of Wuyang actually comes from the agricultural myth that "dogs get rice seeds" of Zhuang, Dong and South Vietnamese nationalities. After the myth of Lingnan flowed into Chu State, it was collected and adapted by Central Plains literati and then introduced into Lingnan again. One of the "five-color sheep" is actually a five-color dog Tiger Pan.

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The source of Wuyang statue:

Guangzhou famous sculptors Yin Jichang, Kong and Chen Benzong carved this Wuyang stone statue in 1960 according to this beautiful Wuyang myth. The artist recreated this wonderful legend. Five stone sheep have different looks: the old sheep standing on a high place is strong, with ears of wheat in its mouth and its head held high forward; At the foot of the old sheep is a pair of dense lambs; Another pair of mother and son sheep, the ewe turned around and looked around at the little sheep that was quietly sucking milk. The deep maternal love was beyond words.

Wuyang stone carving was built in 1959, located on the Muke Mountain on the west side of Yuexiu Park. It is carved from 130 granite, with a height of 1 1 m and a volume of 53 cubic meters. In the stone statue, the big goat is in the middle, with its head held high, its beard slightly brushed, and its mouth is holding "six ears of grain with one stalk", and its powerful horn extends into the air, which looks deep and mighty. The other four sheep circled around, or the lambs knelt down, or the ewes turned around, or ate grass, or played, which was lovely and realistic.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Wuyang