The folk literature "The Legend of Mengjiang Girl" is a national intangible cultural heritage project. The story of Meng Jiangnu, as one of the four major love stories of ancient Chinese folk, has been loved and recited by the general public for thousands of years, and is also inextricably linked to Laiwu.
In Shangwangzhuang Village, Chayekou Town, Laiwu District, there is a Mengjiang Female Folk Museum, which displays the story material of the legend of Mengjiangnu, and the exhibition hall has a Mengjiang Female Ancestral Hall.
(Photo: Zhang Qing)
In 2008, a Ming Dynasty stone stele was found on the south side of the Huangshi Pass of the Qi Great Wall near the village, and the inscription on the forehead of the stele was "MengJiangnu Jiming", which detailed the legend of "Mengjiang Girl Crying on the Great Wall", which is an important historical record about Mengjiangnu.
(Tomb of Meng Jiangnu)
In 2015, Shangwangzhuang's "MengjiangNu Cultural Inheritance Story" was rated as intangible cultural heritage, becoming another intangible cultural heritage project after the legend of Mengjiangnu in Zibo and the legend of Mengjiangnu in Juxian County.
(Meng Jiang Female Ancestral Hall)
In 2016, the village built the "Qi Great Wall Huangshi Guan MengJiang Female Folk Museum". The museum covers an area of 900 square meters, is 7 meters high, and its appearance is all made of yellowstone. The exhibition includes the origin and evolution of the legend of Mengjiangnu, the culture of Yingqin and the legend of Mengjiangnu, the academic discussion of Mengjiangnu culture, the opera and folk literature of Mengjiangnu that circulate in various places, and the culture of the Great Wall of Qi.
(Qi Great Wall Huangshi Guan MengJiang Female Folk Museum)
(Photo: Zhu Hengjun)
There are still relics such as the Mengjiang Female Tomb, the Mengjiang Female Monument, and the Mengjiang Female Ten Weeping Lyrics in Shangwangzhuang Village, forming a representative Mengjiangnu culture and integrating with the Qi Great Wall Pass culture represented by Huangshi Guan, etc.