Legend has it that during the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall and labor was heavy. The young Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiang were newly married for three days. Fan Xiliang was forced to set out to build the Great Wall. He soon died of tiredness, hunger, and cold, and his bones were buried under the city walls. Meng Jiangnu, who was dressed in a cold coat, finally came to the Great Wall after countless hardships,
But what he got was the bad news of her husband's death. Meng Jiangnu cried at the Great Wall for three days and three nights.
Suddenly, the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. After fan Xiliang was buried, Meng Jiangnu was thrown into the sea in despair.
Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, is considered by posterity to be the "Mengjiang Female Crying Great Wall", and the Mengjiang Female Temple was built there. People from the south to the north often shed tears of sympathy. There is a couplet in the temple: "The Qin Emperor is in The House, and the Great Wall is building a grudge; The Jiang Girl is not dead, and the Thousand Autumn Tablets are Shi Mingzhen." "The story of Meng Jiangnu crying about the collapse of the Great Wall reflects the deep suffering of the Qin Dynasty. Some believe that this story comes from the Warring States period.
The legend of the Mengjiang Female Weeping Great Wall is widely spread in the folk. His husband Fan Xiliang (Weihui) was called upon to build the Great Wall (the Warring States Great Wall at the junction of present-day Weihui and Huixian), died of exhaustion, and was buried on the Great Wall. down. Meng Jiangnu looked for her husband in Weihui Chishan and cried to the Great Wall. She touched heaven and earth, wept at the Great Wall, revealing her husband's bones. His story has been passed down to this day in Weihui Chishan Township Crooked Brain Village, and the teardrop stone of meng Jiang's weeping great wall can still be seen on the mountain. Xinxiang urban area has the names of MengjiangnuHe, Mengjiangnu Road, Mengjiangnu Bridge and so on.