According to the records of the old records of Guangzhou, King Hui of Zhou ordered Chu Xiongzi. Yun ruled Lingnan, and Nanhai was subservient to Chu, and it was called Chu Ting and Dynasty, so Guangzhou was also called Chu Ting. There are three versions of the origin of Wuyang and its traditions.

One version: In the last eight years of Zhou Yi (887 BC), there was a period of famine in Guangzhou. The fields were barren, the agricultural harvest was lost, and the people were struggling to make ends meet. One day, a melodious music suddenly came from the sky of the South China Sea, and five colorful auspicious clouds appeared. There were five immortals, wearing colorful clothes, riding goats of different fur colors. The goats carried six fine ears of rice in their mouths and came to Chu Ting. The immortal gave the ears of rice to the people of Guangzhou and wished that there would never be famine here. After wishing the immortals to fly away, the five immortals turned into stones and stayed on the slopes of Guangzhou. Since then, Guangzhou has become the richest place in Lingnan. This is where the names "Wuyang City", "Yangcheng" and "Suicheng" come from in Guangzhou.

Version 2: The situation of the arrival of the Five Immortals is similar, but the legendary time is when Gao Gu of Nanhai was the prime minister of Chu Wei, that is, during the Warring States period.

Version 3: In the Jin Dynasty, Wu Xiu was the governor of Guangzhou, and before he took office, there were five immortals riding five-colored sheep and carrying five grain to the hall of Guangzhou State Administration. Wu Xiu then painted the five immortals in the hall to commemorate auspiciousness, and called Guangzhou "Five Immortals City." The current Five Immortals Temple on Huifu West Road in Guangzhou is said to be the place where the Five Immortals descended. The Guangzhou people specially built the Five Immortals Temple in memory of the five immortals, and there were statues of the five immortals and five sheep in the hall. The only loophole in this version is that Wu Xiu has not yet taken office. How can he see the appearance of the five immortals who have come to the hall of Guangzhou State Administration and draw them on the hall?

According to the "Guangdong Tongzhi" records, the site of the Five Immortals Temple has been relocated many times in the past dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, it was in Shixianfang (now in the area of the Provincial Finance Department on Beijing Road), and in the late Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was on the banks of the ancient West Lake (now in the area of Education Road). In the tenth year of the Ming Hongwu Dynasty (1377 AD), the emissary Zhao Si insisted on changing the original Five Immortals Temple to Guangfeng Library, and building the Five Immortals Temple at the current site of the slope mountain on Huifu Road. On the east side of the current Five Immortals Temple, there is also a huge river sandstone-like footprint-like cavity called "Immortal Thumb Mark" (that is, Immortal Footprint).

It sounded a little too unserious. The place where the immortals descended was suddenly moved here, and then moved there, and there was a footprint. It was a bit of a joke. However, there was a place where they stayed for everyone to remember. The interesting thing was that footprint. There was such a naive and gratifying saying, and everyone was naive and gratifying. Qu Dajun's "Guangdong Xinyu" said: "'There is a huge boulder in Suishi Cave, which can be four or five meters wide. There are hallmarks on it, and the clear water in the trace is prosperous. Although the drought is endless, there seems to be a spring under it, which is also different." In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this "immortal thumb trail" was also listed in the eight scenes of Yangcheng as "Suishi Cave Heaven" and "Five Immortals Xia Cave". The "begging" (casual and casual) and innocence of Guangzhou people in this matter are fascinating.

As for the Five Immortals Temple that finally settled on Huifu Road, it was abandoned before liberation and repaired after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but the Five Mountain Statue and the Five Stone Sheep could not be restored in the temple. Instead, a huge statue of the Five Sheep was carved with more than 130 pieces of granite in Yuexiu Park. It is said that the stone on the head of the main sheep alone weighs more than 4,000 catties.

Some people have done research on why the five immortals' mounts are sheep instead of other lions, tigers, elephants, etc. It has been studied until the primitive society period, and it is said that it may be from the totem worship of the primitive ethnic groups in Guangzhou. At that time, there used to be five tribes in the south of our country with the surname Jiang. They all used sheep as the totem of their clan, distinguished by five colors: yellow, red, black, white, and purple. They worshiped sheep, believing that sheep were auspicious symbols and brought them happiness. Among them, the "yellow sheep" who were engaged in primitive agriculture in Guangzhou was the most prosperous. It was said that they were best at growing rice, which was still productive, and living a better life.