Why is Guangzhou called Yangcheng?

Guangzhou is also called "Yangcheng" and "Guangzhou City". According to legend, in ancient times, five immortals rode five-color sheep, each carrying a bunch of ears of grain. The immortals dedicated the ears of grain to the residents, hoping that there would be a bumper harvest and no famine in this place. After the fairy floated away, the five sheep left behind turned into stones. Therefore, later generations also called Guangzhou "Yangcheng", "Five Yangcheng", "Fairy City" and "Guangzhou City".

Yangcheng celebrity:

I. Yang Fu

Yangfu, a filial piety, was born in Panyu, Nanhai County in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and worked as a negotiator. Yangfu is knowledgeable and incorruptible as an official. He suggested to rectify the official management, take honesty as the standard, and govern the world with filial piety, which was adopted by the emperor. He is the author of China's first regional product monograph "Records of Foreign Bodies in Nanyuan", and is recognized by historians as the first scholar in Lingnan to write a book. ?

Second, Choi Woo-shik.

Choi Woo-shik, a native of Zengcheng, Guangdong, was a famous minister in the Southern Song Dynasty. Diligent and loving the people, honest and clean, with remarkable achievements, Huai Dongchuan resisted gold and stabilized border defense. Create the first academic school in Lingnan history-Jupo School. He has profound literary attainments and elegant and healthy ci style, and is known as the "originator of Cantonese Ci". Posthumous title's "leisure" and Zhang Jiuling, a famous "literature" writer in posthumous title in Tang Dynasty, are collectively called "two leisure". ?

Third, Li

Li, whose real name is called "Li", is from Panyu, Guangdong, a famous minister and scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the ancient imperial examination, the first Guangdong flower-exploring official was an honest official, who was not afraid of power. He repeatedly impeached the powerful ministers Jia Sidao and Daquan Ding, and later came TaiChangQing Youshi, who also had the right to sue the assistant minister of the official department. He was promoted to Longtuge, assistant minister of official department, doctor of Canada, and founding baron of Panyu. ?

Fourth, Chen Dazhen

Chen Dazhen was born in Panyu, Guangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty. Song Lizong was a Boluo official, a Changle magistrate, a Guangji magistrate, a Leizhou magistrate and a Chao Feng doctor when he was studying. Be fair to the officials, be honest and upright, abide by the law and discipline, and cultivate one's morality. He acted decisively and sentenced hundreds of cases, which was called "divine judgment" by the people.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Zhong Yuyan

Zhong Yuyan, whose real name is Kaichu, whose real name is Shengde and whose name is Rosa. In the twenty-five years of Southern Song Dynasty, he was born in Chini, Hua County, Guangdong Province. At the age of eight, he moved to Luogang, Panyu with his father. In the first year of Kathy (1205), he was a scholar of China Academy of Sciences. He loves the people as much as his son. The Imperial Banquet Academy, where he lectured and taught, was a famous academy in early Guangzhou, and it was also the earliest and most well-preserved college in existence.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangzhou.