Where does Wuyang City refer now?

According to "Old Records of Guangzhou", King Hui of Zhou ordered Chuxiong Zi. In order to rule Lingnan, the South China Sea surrendered to Chu and served as a court against North Korea, so Guangzhou is also called Chu Pavilion. There are three versions about the origin and tradition of Wuyang. 1. In the eighth year of Zhou Yiwang (887 BC), Guangzhou was a sea and sky, and it was deserted everywhere. Once, there were years of famine, barren fields, agricultural failure and poverty among the people. One day, Yue Xian suddenly appeared in the air of the South China Sea. Then five colorful auspicious clouds appeared. There are five immortals in the cloud, dressed in colorful clothes and riding colorful fairy sheep. Every sheep came to Chuting with an ear of rice with "six out of one stem" in its mouth. The immortal gave the ear of rice to the people of Guangzhou, wishing a bumper harvest and no famine. May the immortals fly on the colorful clouds. Because of their attachment to the world, five fairy sheep turned to stone and stayed, wishing Guangzhou a good weather. Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan. This is why Guangzhou is known as "Five Yangcheng", "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou".

2. The situation of the arrival of the Five Immortals is similar, but it is said that it was the time when Koko, a native of the South China Sea, became Chu Weiwang, that is, during the Warring States Period in Zhou Xianwang. According to Guangdong Tongzhi, the site of Wuxian Temple has been relocated many times. In the Song Dynasty, it was in Shixianfang (now in the area of Beijing Road Provincial Finance Department), and in the ancient West Lake (in the area of Lingjiaoyu Road) from the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. In the tenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1377), Zhao Sijian, the minister in charge of public affairs, changed the original Wuxian Temple into Guangfeng Library and rebuilt it at the present site of Poshan in Huifu Road. On the east side of this Wuxian Temple, there is also a huge footprint-shaped channel sandstone cave called "immortal thumb mark" (that is, immortal footprint). That sounds a little too serious. The fairy's arrival place 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 Talk" said: "There are huge stones in the Suishi Cave, which can be four or five times as big, with thumb marks on them, and the traces are full of clear water. Although there is no shortage of drought, it seems that there is spring under it, and it is different. " In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this "immortal thumb trace" was also included in the eight scenic spots of Yangcheng in the name of "Ear Stone Cave" and "Five Fairy Cave". Guangzhou people's "welcome" (casual, casual) in this incident is innocent and makes people smile. As for the Wuxian Temple, which finally settled in Huifu Road, it was abandoned before liberation and rebuilt after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the five immortals and five stone sheep in the temple could not be 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. 3. During the Jin Dynasty, Wu was the secretariat of Guangzhou. Before he arrived, five immortals rode five-color 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". The existing Wuxian Temple on Huifu West Road in Guangzhou is said to be the place where the five immortals descended to earth. 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 he see the five immortals who have been to guangzhou fu Hall and draw them on the hall? According to legend, a long time ago, there was a drought in Guangzhou and there was no harvest. People have nothing to do but pray for the blessing of the gods day and night. Their piety finally touched the five immortals. The fairies floated here on five fairy sheep with different colors and ears of rice. They dedicated the ears of grain to people, hoping that there would never be famine here. After that, they flew away, and the five fairy sheep turned into stones and stayed on earth. Since then, the weather here has been good every year, and the grain has been abundant. Because of this magical legend, Guangzhou is called "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City". Today, there is a statue of Wuyang in Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou, which is the most symbolic city emblem of Guangzhou.

Symbolic connotation:

After the twentieth century, people began to study the myth of Wuyang legend. Historian Cen Zhongmian pointed out in 1948 that the legend and myth of Wuyang is a prehistoric colonial myth. At that time, sheep were domestic animals in the northwest of the Central Plains, which meant that "immortals" came from the north, and the six-spike grain they held represented high-yield japonica rice. Therefore, the historical prototype of Wuyang legend is that the people surnamed Ji in the late Western Zhou Dynasty could not bear the oppression of Chu people, and moved south to Lingnan along the Xiangshui River basin, carrying livestock (sheep) and crops (spikes) to spread in the south. This is also the condensation and apotheosis of the story that Guangdong people accepted the advanced culture of the Central Plains and stepped into civilization. Modern research believes that the legend of Wuyang may contain many historical facts. One is that 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. Secondly, in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, under the oppression of Chu people, the Ji tribe in Hanyang area moved to Lingnan with their flocks and grains, and spread the technology of planting rice to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta. Thirdly, according to the sentence "Gao Gu is the Prime Minister of Chu Weiwang" in Guangzhou, it is believed 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. Some scholars believe that "sheep" actually means "dog" in Chu State, 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.