Five Rams Sculpture, the icon of Guangzhou is situated on the Wooden-hull Hummock in the Yuexiu Park, was made by three famous sculptor: Yin Jichang, Kong Fanwei and Chen Benzong in 1959. Made of 30 pieces granite, the sculpture stands as high as 10 plus metres with a size of 53 cubic metres (including the base). The head of the main rams weighs 2 tons and the 2-metre-horn over 500 kg. The sculpture is surrounded by a verdant woods and the Nanxiu Lake nearby glistens with silvery ripples and picturesque reflections.
The sculpture of Five Rams traces back to a beautiful legend which runs as follow:
2000 years ago Guangzhou was covered land of barrenness on which the local people sweated and toiled all day but still failed to get enough food and clothes. One day, heavenly melody suddenly rung up and from the sky came down five celestial beings in five-color blouse striding on five rams with six bundle of spikes in their mouths. The celestial beings sent the spikes to the local people wishing them famine-free and abundant harvests of all crops of every year from now on, then rose up to the sky, rode the clouds and disappeared gradually. The five rams they left then turned into five stone rams. Hereon, Guangzhou becomes a prolific land.
This story passed from generation to generation and rendered Guangzhou the name of "the Spike City" and "the Ram City".
The Five Rams Sculpture is then regarded as "the City Emblem" by the local people.
In 1989, more stone carvings and relievos in remembrance of this moving story Five Celestial beings sending spikes were added around the sculpture, thus expanding the Five Rams Scenic Area into today's "Five Rams Celestial Court".
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