Speaking of Meng Jiangnu crying down the Great Wall, everyone is familiar with it, the story is mainly about the Qin Dynasty, the labor is heavy, there is a woman named Meng Jiangnu, on the third day of her marriage, her husband was forced to build the Great Wall, and soon after, because the project was too tired, hungry and cold and died by the Great Wall, his body was buried at the foot of the Great Wall. And the "Mengjiang Girl Crying Great Wall" that has been misrepresented for more than 2,000 years, what secrets are hidden behind it?
Meng Jiangnu could not bear the pain of lovesickness, all the way thinly dressed, through all kinds of difficulties and dangers to the Great Wall to find her husband, but when she arrived at the foot of the Great Wall, she learned the news of her husband's death, she cried under the Great Wall, crying for seven days and seven nights, and then the Great Wall was moved by it, collapsed violently, revealing her husband's body, and finally Meng Jiangnu resolutely committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea after burying the body, achieving a love story.
However, legends are only legends, after the long river of history, after the changes of the years, have these stories been rewritten countless times and have become unrecognizable? So has the original intention of these stories also been misinterpreted?
The story of Meng Jiangnu crying down the Great Wall was actually not like this at first, according to the records of zuo chuan, Meng Jiangnu was actually the wife of Qi Liang in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, Qiliang, as a general, followed Qi Hou out on a campaign, in the war, he lost his life, and then Qiliang's wife went out of the city to welcome back her husband's bones, and when she met Qi Hou in the suburbs, Qi Hou expressed condolences and condolences to Qi Liang's wife, but Qi Liang's wife said it was inappropriate, telling Qi Hou that if she wanted to mourn, she should return to the palace, otherwise it was not in line with etiquette.
It was such a woman, her husband died, although she was extremely sad, but everything still had to be carried out in an orderly manner according to the number of etiquette, so the literati of the Spring and Autumn Period recorded this model of etiquette and restraint to teach future generations.
However, this matter was completely revised in the Ming Dynasty, Qiliang's wife changed from nameless and clanless to Meng Jiangnu, Qiliang also changed from a generation of generals to a minfu Wan Xiliang, at the same time, also integrated the feelings of Qin Shi Huang and Meng Jiangnu into it, saying that Qin Shi Huang was interested in Meng Jiangnu, and promised to bury the husband on the condition that Meng Jiangnu want Meng Jiangnu, and finally Meng Jiangnu committed suicide by throwing herself into the sea after burying her husband's bones. Since then, Qiliang's wife has changed from a woman who knows how to be a scholar to a loyal and martyr woman.
Seeing this, everyone may have doubts, Qin Shi Huang and Meng Jiangnu are not from a dynasty, the two of them are different for a hundred years, how can they meet together? But why did the people still want to join Qin Shi Huang during the Ming Dynasty? In fact, it is not difficult to explain, the Ming Dynasty was the last period to build the Great Wall, when the Great Wall was built, countless people were forced to work hard like Wan Xiliang, and there were countless people who died of overwhelmed life. Therefore, the people associated the suffering of building the Great Wall with the tyrants of the Qin Dynasty, no doubt trying to use the ancient to satirize the present. Venting one's dissatisfaction with today's current politics in this way can be said to be a "weapon" used by the weak to resist at that time.