In the 9th century BC, the State of Chu in the Zhou Dynasty built a city called Chuting in what is now Guangzhou. One year, due to successive years of disasters, Chuting farmland was barren, agriculture failed, and the people were hungry and cold. One day, five auspicious clouds appeared in the sky of the South China Sea. There are five immortals in the sky, dressed in red, orange, yellow, green and purple, riding five fairy sheep respectively, with a rice with six ears in its mouth, and slowly landing in this city. The immortal gave the ears of rice to the people, leaving five sheep, hoping that there would never be a famine here, and then flew away.
Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan. Also began to be called "Yangcheng", "Five Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City". Guangzhou people also built a "Five Immortals View" on Huifu West Road to commemorate the five immortals who benefited. If you don't believe me, you can go to the east side of Wuxian Temple, where there is a huge cave in the shape of red sandstone footprints, which is the "immortal thumb print". If you don't believe me, you can go to the foot of Yuexiu Mountain, where there is a stone tablet of "Ancient Chuting", which says the oldest name in Guangzhou is "Chuting".
The legend of Wuyang is a "prehistoric colonial story" in Guangzhou. Through "Five sheep holding grain titles, collected from Chuting", it reflects that in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, due to the rise of princes, the people of the Central Plains moved south with livestock and crops, expressing the yearning of ancient Guangzhou ancestors for a better life.