The legend of Meng JiangNu

The prototype of the legend of Meng Jiang nu is a real person in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is recorded in the "Left Biography". The State of Qi attacked the State of Ju and the general Qi

Liang was killed. When Qihou Banshi returned to China and met Qiliang's wife in the suburbs, he was going to mourn her in the suburbs. Qiliang's wife refused on the grounds that the suburbs were not a place of mourning, and QiHou had to listen to her and go to her house to mourn Qiliang. Originally, this was a story about how Qiliang's wife knew how to learn etiquette, and during the Warring States period, the plot of Qiliang's wife crying was added; the Han Dynasty added the plot of Qiliang's wife crying down the city wall; the Southern and Northern Dynasties out of Qiliang's wife crying down the Great Wall (Ming Qiuying woodcut) Now Qiliang was forced to build the Great Wall, and the body was built inside the Great Wall after death; by the Tang Dynasty, the plot framework of Meng Jiang's weeping down the Great Wall was basically established.

Now, the legend of Meng Jiang Nu is roughly like this: During the Qin Dynasty, the family surnamed Meng planted a gourd, and the gourd seedling climbed along the wall to the neighbor Jiang's family to make a melon. After the autumn, the two families divided this gourd, opened it, and there was a white and fat little girl inside the gourd, so they named her "Meng Jiang Nu". The two old members of the Meng family love Meng Jiang Nu as a pearl in their palms. Meng Jiangnu grew up to be an adult, beautiful and clever.

At this time, Qin Shi Huang went around grabbing migrant workers to build the Great Wall. There was a scholar named Fan Xiliang, who escaped from servitude and hid in the back garden of the Meng family. He inadvertently saw Meng Jiang nu taking a bath. Meng Jiang nu saw that Fan Xiliang was a white-faced student, quite handsome, and she wanted to recruit him as a husband.

The two elders of the Meng family chose an auspicious day and let Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiang's female worship hall become relatives. Who knew that the two young people had only been relatives for three days, and suddenly a group of servants came in, and there was no need to say anything, and Fan Xiliang was arrested to repair the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu was at home, waiting for Fan Xiliang to come home. She looked forward to it year after year, and she didn't even have a letter. In the blink of an eye, the sky was cold again, and Meng Jiangnu could not rest assured, and rushed to make winter clothes for her husband, and she wanted to send them to her husband personally.

She bid farewell to the second elder and embarked on the journey. After crossing the mountains and wading through the rivers, Meng Jiangnu finally came to the foot of the Great Wall. She asked the migrant workers in the Great Wall, "Do you know a man named Fan Xiliang?" "People say they don't know. She didn't know how many people she had asked before she heard a message; Fan Xiliang was dead, and the corpse was filled in the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu cried bitterly under the Great Wall. She cried, she cried, she cried in the dark, she cried in the autumn wind, and the sea was waving. Suddenly, there was a loud "boom", and the Great Wall collapsed for eight hundred miles at once, revealing a pile of human bones. With so many white bones, which one is her husband Fan Xiliang's? She remembered what her mother had told her when she was a child: the bones of relatives can penetrate into the blood of relatives. She bit her finger and dripped blood on the white bone, which is called "blood recognition". Meng Jiangnu finally found her husband's bones, guarding her husband's white bones, and she cried to death.

At this time, Qin Shi Huang came with a large group of people and horses.

When Qin Shi Huang heard that Meng Jiangnu had cried down the Eight Hundred Mile Great Wall, she was furious. He led a large army to personally dispose of Meng Jiangnu. When Qin Shi Huang saw that Meng Jiang Nu looked so flowery and moon-like, he immediately changed his mind. He sent someone to propose to him, and Meng Jiangnu said, "I have already married Fan Xiliang, and now I want to marry him, unless he promises three things!" ”

Hearing this, Qin Shi Huang felt hopeful, and personally stepped forward and said, "Which three things, you say." Meng Jiangnu said, "The first thing is to build a tomb monument for my husband and bury it well." ”

Qin Shi Huang said, "This is a good thing to say, it depends on you." What about the second one? ”

Meng Jiangnu said, "Second, you have to give my husband a filial piety and lead the wen and martial officials to send a funeral." ”

Qin Shi Huang said, "How can this work!" How can an emperor of my hall send a funeral to a small people? This one will not work, you say the third one! ”

Meng Jiangnu said: "The second thing is not OK, there is no third one, and don't mention the matter of being a parent!" ”

Seeing that the beauty in hand was about to disappear again, Qin Shi Huang was troubled: Agree, don't let the people of the world laugh in shame; if you don't agree, then how can you become a relative? He thought again: I am the emperor, who dares to laugh at me? Whoever laughs at me I will kill! So he gritted his teeth and agreed. Meng Jiang Nu then said, "Third, I want to visit the sea for three days." Qin Shi Huang said, "This matter is no problem, according to you!" Qin Shi Huang immediately sent someone to erect a monument to Fan Xiliang's tomb, and on the day of the funeral, he wore a filial piety and really became a filial piety. After the funeral, Meng Jiangnu swam with Qin Shi Huang again. Seeing that after swimming in the sea, qin shi huang was really happy. Just as she was happy, she suddenly "pounced" and Meng Jiang jumped into the sea.

Qin Shi Huang was in a hurry: "Quick, quick, quick fish for me!" "The salvaged man had just jumped into the sea, and the sea, which had been calm and calm, suddenly set off a monstrous wave. It turned out that the old Dragon King sympathized with Meng Jiangnu, and as soon as he saw her jumping into the sea, he quickly took her to the Dragon Palace, and then ordered the shrimp soldier crab general to set off a huge wave. Qin Shi Huang hurriedly rowed ashore, otherwise he might be thrown into the sea to feed the fish and shrimp.