What city is Guangzhou called?

Guangzhou, also known as "Yangcheng", has a history of more than 22 10 years. Like many ancient cities in the world, it has a beautiful legend.

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.

Guangzhou, which has a solid history, was formed in this way.

Facing the South China Sea and located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou enjoys a mild climate, long sunshine hours and abundant rainfall. As early as the Neolithic Age, that is, about 5,000 years ago, our ancestors carried out fishing and hunting and primitive agricultural activities here. A large number of production tools, such as stone axes, chisels, stone mills and pottery, have been unearthed in the ancient cultural sites discovered in Longyan Cave and Fei 'eling, Guangzhou, indicating that floating fishing and hunting tribes in the Pearl River Delta settled in Guangzhou and gradually developed into primitive settlements in Guangzhou.

Later, people's farming and hunting skills improved. They learned all kinds of handicraft techniques. They produced more grain and caught more fish, so they began to exchange surplus grain and fish for the surplus products of other tribes and exchanged useful tools. In the rich Pearl River Delta region, craftsmen from all walks of life are constantly emerging. They don't need to cultivate quickly or live in scattered villages, but live in concentrated areas. In this way, the contacts between the settlements in Guangzhou have become close, and no one can live without anyone, and the economy and society have gradually formed, thus laying the foundation for Guangzhou City. At that time, many famous cities in the world were still forests where hunters bent bows and arrows, or rivers where fishermen cast nets. Guangzhou is known as the "Flower City", and its annual Winter jasmine market attracts worldwide attention. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou are filled with flowers and potted oranges, and all major parks hold Spring Festival exhibitions, especially three days before New Year's Eve. Color buildings and flower stands are set up on the theme streets in each district. Flower farmers from all over the country flocked to set up their positions and sold flowers and oranges. These streets are ten miles long. Flowers bloom and fall like a tide, and it didn't disperse until the early morning of the first day. This is unique to Guangzhou.