Show pretty chinese legend canton te lis one ohe of the oldest cities to in china according to chinese tradition it was in existence more than three thousand years rears ago when it was visited by five deified beings each mounted on a huge ram and carrying an ear of corn who pronounced their bles blessing ging on the spot and prayed that no famine should ever visit it because of this the city is sometimes referred to in chinese classics clis cl asic as the city of rams or the city of genii or angels |