The Legend of Five Goats
One day, suddenly, a holy melody spread in the air and a five-colour cloud drifted in the sky from the South China Sea.
[2] The literal recordings of this legendary can be dated back to Jin Dynasty, during which Pei Yuan wrote in his essay Guangzhou Ji.'
Taiping Yulan (The Northern Song Dynasty, in 983) also refers to the descriptions of 'Guangzhou Ji'—"On the Guangzhou court hall's beam, there are images of the five goats.
Taiping Huanyu Ji, which was written in 984 continued on the record of Xunan Yuezhi of Tang Dynasty and said, "There is an old saying that five gods came, riding five-color goats with six grains".
The reason why it appeared and replaced the five goats and became the heroes in the later versions is because of the popularity of Taoism in Northern and Southern dynasties.
According to the fantastic legendary stories of Tang Dynasty, at that time, people had sacrificed five goats in the temples of the Town God.
In this record, Zhang quoted Nanyue Lingbiao Youji and Tu Jing and made the story more specific, "At the very beginning, there were five gods, each holding a wheat with six stalks, arrived riding five goats.
Taiping Yulan thinks there are two versions, which are relatively during Chu and Teng Xiu's inauguration in the Three Kingdoms period.
Famous historian Ceng Zhongmian rose an opinion in 1948 that the legendary and related stories are pre-historical colonial myths.
So the historical origin of this legendary comes from a historical event: at the end of Western Zhou, Ji people could not bear the oppression of Chu people, so they moved south to Lingnan along the Xiang River, with livestock like goats and grains like wheats with them, and spread these two things in the south China in the following years.
This is an extraction and improvement for the story of Yue people accepted the advanced culture of Zhongyuan and stepped into civilization.
The surname of the ancestors of Chu's royal family is "Mi" (芈), which has the same meaning as "Baa" ("Mie" (咩) in Chinese), which is also the onomatopoeia of goats.
The second is as at the end of Western Zhou, due to the oppression of Chu, Ji people immigrated to Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta with goats and grains.
There has been a temple that in memory of the five gods in Northern Song Dynasty in Shixian Fang (now is around Provincial Financial Department in Guangren Road).
During the Republic of China (in 1923), in order to raise money for the war, the government sold it at auction and dismissed all the Taoist priests lived in the temple.
In Song Dynasty, people started to sacrifice live goats for the five gods, and the activity was held along with the holy dance.
The band performs music—"Wuyun Kairui Chao", the "Zhuganzi" then step into the stage and recite the ode lyrics after the music.
When "Wuyun Kairui Chao" ends after being played twice, the Queen Mother comes forward, give a speech, and then back to the team.
Finally, the "Wuyun Kairui Chao" music will be played again, the "Zhuganzi" and the Queen Mother give speech separately, then the performance ends.
The second one was published in 1990, in the middle, it is a five-pointed star, underneath is an artistic Chinese seal character—"羊" and a gold key formed by wheat.
