According to legend, sheep is the god of grains who brings good luck to Guangzhou. "Taiping Yulan" quoted Pei Yuan's "Guangzhou Records" of the Jin Dynasty, which contains the legend of the Five Goats. By the early Qing Dynasty, the story of the Five Sheep was still talked about by local people. Qu Dajun's "Guangzhou Xinyu" records that in ancient times, there were five immortals in the South China Sea, each wearing different colors of clothes and riding different colors of sheep. They came to Guangzhou , giving six ears of grain to people, and wishing that there would never be famine. Then, the five immortals flew away into the sky and the five sheep turned into stone. Five immortals and five sheep bring blessings of abundant harvests. Guangzhou is called Yangcheng, or Sui for short, both originating from the legend of the Five Rams. Today, a stone sculpture of the Five Rams stands in Yuexiu Mountain Park in the city, which is the symbol of Guangzhou.

According to legend, one year, Chu Ting’s fields were barren due to successive disasters. Agricultural harvests were lost and people were starving. One day. Five auspicious clouds appeared in the sky, and there were five immortals wearing red, orange, yellow, green, and purple clothes, riding five fairy sheep of different colors. Each of the fairy sheep held a stalk of rice with six ears in its mouth, and slowly landed here. a city. The immortal gave the rice to the people, left five sheep behind, and wished that there would never be famine here, and then flew away.

Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan, and the "Guangzhou" has also begun to appear. It is also known as "Wuyang City" and "Suicheng City". Later, the people of Guangzhou also built the "Five Immortals Temple" on Huifu West Road to commemorate these five immortals who benefited Guangzhou. If you don't believe it, you can go to the east side of the Five Immortals Temple and take a look. There is still a huge red sandstone footprint-shaped depression there, which is the "immortal's thumb mark".

Today. Wuyang has become the city emblem of Guangzhou. Careful tourists will find that the nickname "Yangcheng" has penetrated into all aspects of life in Guangzhou: the book "Yangcheng Ancient Banknotes", the publication "Yangcheng Ancient and Modern", the newspaper "Yangcheng Evening News", and the "Eight Scenes of Yangcheng" ; Even many building trademarks, companies, associations, and places of interest are named after "Yangcheng"; the "Five Immortals Temple" still exists today, and the "immortal thumb traces" can still be seen; Xianhu Street, Xianlin Lane, Wuxianmen, etc. are still there. There is a bit of "immortality" in it - the myth of "Five Sheep Immortal" can be said to have far-reaching influence.