The origin of the five immortals is legendary, and who are the five immortals

Immortals have different tastes. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty "Hug Puzi" divided the immortals into three classes: "The sergeant lifts the form and ascends to the void, which is called the heavenly immortal; The sergeant swims in the famous mountain, which is called the land immortal; The corporal dies first and then sheds, which is called the autopsy immortal.

Tianyinzi divides immortals into five categories: human immortals in people, heavenly immortals in heaven, earth immortals in the ground, narcissus in water, and immortals who can change their powers. "The Secret Library of Immortal Arts" is also known as "the law has three vehicles, and the immortals are divided into five classes", and its five-class immortals are heavenly immortals, immortals, earth immortals, eight immortals, and ghost immortals.

In "Taizhenke", it is divided into nine products, in order: Shangxian, Gaoxian, Daxian, Shenxian, Zhixian, True Immortal, Tianxian, Lingxian, and Zhixian. There are many more taxonomy about immortal products.

Guangzhou is also known as Wuyang City, Yangcheng and Suicheng, and these aliases all come from the beautiful legend of "Five Sheep Rank Grain Ears in Chuting". In 860 B.C., during the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a famine in Guangzhou for many years, and the people were struggling to make a living. The cries of hungry children and the shouts of adults drifted to the clouds, alarming the five immortals of the South China Sea.

Five immortals, dressed in five-colored clothes, each rode a five-colored fairy sheep, holding a six-out ear of grain, and descended to the city. They gave ears of grain to the industrious, and blessed the people to live in peace and contentment, and there would be no famine in the land. After the five immortals left, the five immortal sheep who were attached to the world turned into stones and stayed in Guangzhou.

The legend of "Five Immortals and Five Sheep" is known by many people and spreads widely, but about the five immortals left immortal traces in Tianhe, and still leaves place names, I am afraid that there are not many people who know. In the north of the Shahe River in Guangzhou, there is a Wuxian Bridge station on the Xinghua Street in Guangzhou, there was a bridge on the northwest slope of the station, which was connected by five bluestone slabs, and it is said that this is the place where the five immortals stayed in the past. When the five immortals first descended here, when they encountered the stream blocking the way, the immortals each threw their handkerchiefs into a stone bridge, and the immortals rode sheep and walked over the bridge until they walked into the city of Guangzhou.

Later, people called this bridge "Five Immortals Bridge" in order to commemorate the Five Immortals. The bridge was lost in the 70s of the last century due to the drying up of the stream. When the immortals came to this place, they saw a mountain ridge shaped like a white cloud, so they called this mountain "Baiyun Mountain".

There is another mountain ridge in front of Baiyun Mountain, which resembles a thin dog lying on its stomach, with its head, tail, body and feet, vividly appearing. If you stand on Baiyun Mountain and look at it, this dog is even more skinny, and he can even count the ribs. The immortals called it "Thin Dog Ridge".

The immortals sat and chatted in front of the mountain, and suddenly chatted: "Is Baiyun Mountain heavy or Thin Dog Lingling?" The immortals argued, and finally found a balance to weigh, and the result was that the Thin Dog Ridge was heavier than Baiyun Mountain.

Later, people called the place where the balance was placed "balance rack".